25 years of Uyire
Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala’s Dil Se is originally a Hindi film but because the director is Mani Ratnam who mostly showers his talent on Tamil cinema and also Mollywood, the movie was dubbed and released in both the branches of Indian cinema with the name ‘Uyire’ (meaning ‘Darling’). So this way or that, Uyire and Dil Se turn 25 today.
In 1988, this movie was said to have the most chaotic, mismatched backdrop for a love story but it still worked out well because of SRK’s skill of being the anchor of a sailing ship, no matter which. The film unwraps on a messy frontline, where Journalist Amar falls for a mysterious woman on an assignment, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar is about to get married, the woman shows up at his doorstep asking for help. And between all that is the catastrophic terrorism-based theme. But, since the crux of SRK’s toxic character was that he was from mainstream India while the actress Manisha Koirala was from peripheral India, there was no better way of portraying it. Anupama continues that SRK’s already-established reputation as a romantic hero squared down Dil Se’s cringy script significantly.
The climax drops like a bombshell when Manisha Koirala and SRK hug towards the end, something nobody was expecting, because of the lifestyle difference between both. Preity Zinta has done her part phenomenally. The song ‘Jiya Jale Jaan Jale’ is still alive in people’s heart. The triple threat – Mani Ratnam, Ram Gopal Varma and Shekhar – made an impossible movie like this a blockbuster worth 28 crores in 1988.
Today, August 21st marks as the Silver Jubilee for the movie that may have fallen down the cliff if it weren’t for the producers and the cast.
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