![]() ![]() When mixing I thought it was wrong and decided to change. In the second half of January we went to Delhi. In the first version, Sridevi marries Chintu, has a son. It was a romantic shot, with fantastic, beautiful people. We had a muhurat in November with Sridevi, Chintu and Vinod Khanna. “We began with a different treatment of the same film, more like an art film. Yet when Yash decided to make Chandni, he felt it was something of a ‘suicide attempt’ as he had tired of action films: Yash’s return to form was overdue, given that many features of the new romantic films were also part of his established repertoire, such as melodic music, an elite context, the feeling for the contemporary - manifested in attitudes, behaviour and the film’s ‘look’ - yet they were handled in a different, more subtle form in Yash’s romantic style which he had established a decade earlier. At the age of 56, he was clearly much older than the new generation of directors, despite his much-touted youthfulness of spirit, but his resurgence was perhaps also influenced by the contribution of his new assistant, his teenage son, Aditya, whose 1995 film Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge was to become a landmark in Indian film history. The huge box-office success of Chandni in 1989 marked an upturn in Yash’s fortunes. ![]()
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