New Delhi: Remember Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla's 1988 film 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak'? The star-crossed lovers from warring families fall in love, and when their love is met with opposition, decide to run away and live happily ever after.
Well, in the '80s that might have seemed like a logical choice, but in the year 2014? And that too, in Mumbai?
*The rest of the article contains spoilers for the film 'Lekar Hum Deewana Dil'.*
In the new film 'Lekar Hum Deewana Dil', by first-time director Arif Ali, explores this age-old theme. Two BFFs Dinesh 'Dinoo' Nigam (Armaan Jain) and Karishma 'K' Shetty (Deeksha Seth) are content with just hanging out, partying with friends and downing pints of beer in the middle of the day. Their friends tease them about their intimacy, but the young pair is clearly in denial and have some commitment issues.
So, anyway. In this day and age, the beer-guzzling Mumbai hipster Karishma is compelled to go for an arranged marriage. Hands are wrung, senti songs are sung and lot of faith-shattering questions are asked.
There's only one option, it seems. In what is clearly seen by the viewer as a hasty decision, the couple, who are on the threshold of crossing from teens to their twenties, decide to run away together, with a puppy in the tow.
But what really go us thinking however is that elopement really becoming obsolete? At least in an educated, urban background. It is of course a totally different situation in small towns and villages.
Because in 'Lekar Hum Deewana Dil', there's no warring families, no Khap panchayat, no religious intolerence -- just different family backgrounds. A lot of couples who decide to get married, go through the same, don't you think? There's some drama, to be sure, but everyone agrees in the end.
What was painfully obvious to all the viewers throughout the film, the protagonists and their parents finally realise after 144 minutes -- that eloping was a bad idea.
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