Designer clothes, spotless makeup and plush foreign locations, Khan’s persona was larger-than-life in every sense of the word. Also back in the early 2000s, Shah Rukh Khan’s image was gradually being built by the Karan Johar brand of cinema in a way that we associated him with mammoth wealth. Hindi cinema was slowly shedding its colossal blockbuster framework, making way for nuances and finer storytelling. On second thoughts, I wouldn’t have appreciated fancier names for the couple either because the plot seems designed for the common man, with ordinary names, dreams and middle-class pursuits.Ĭhalte Chalte is also relevant for the transitional period it came at. The tagline is as generic as “ Opposites Attract” and the leads are named, ahem, Raj and Priya. ![]() Starring Rani Mukerji and Shah Rukh Khan in the lead, Chalte Chalte is the classic love story where the spotlight is on the individuals’ character contrasts. Seventeen years back, on the 13th of June, released Aziz Mirza’s romantic drama Chalte Chalte – a film that proves for the umpteenth time that the story is NOT the backbone of a good and enormously engaging film.
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