But what is giving me confidence is the fantastic team that I have.Įach one of them is a master of their field and their brilliance and expertise is going to make this a fantastic show. I’m a hardcore cinema guy, I have never done theatre in my life and here I am trying to pull off the craziest ambition of my life.
I’m terribly nervous and incredibly excited. 26 years later I will be directing DDLJ all over again but this time as an English language Broadway Musical for a worldwide audience. But this time the medium is not cinema but theatre. It gave me my identity and kick-started an amazing journey for which I’ll always be grateful.Ģ6 years later I’m going back to my original vision of the story of DDLJ, a love story of an American boy and an Indian girl, a love story of two cultures…two worlds. DDLJ was released in 1995 and became the longest-running film in Indian cinema. Chairman and Managing Director of India’s biggest film studio Yash Raj Films, Aditya Chopra Picture Source: SuppliedĪs a 23-year-old young man greatly influenced by Hollywood and American pop culture, I thought I would make a couple of Indian films and then I would be off to Hollywood and make DDLJ for a worldwide English-speaking audience with Tom Cruise as my leading man.
But what many don’t know is that I never intended to make DDLJ in Hindi. The film created history and changed my life and many others forever. 26 years back I started my career with a film called Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ, what it is more famously known as). I’m embarking on my most ambitious project to date. I realised then, that worlds apart, languages apart, western musical theatre and Indian films are two long-lost lovers separated in time. It filled me with the same joy and emotions that a good Indian film does. The burst of colours, the heightened drama, the passionate singing, the unabashed dancing, a classic story, a happy end. It was just not the fact that both use songs to tell the story, I was the feeling they evoked. But the most significant aspect that resonated with me was how similar musical theatre was to our Indian films. I couldn’t believe that this kind of spectacle could be created live on stage. But that day what I saw on stage blew my mind.
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Until then, I was a kid who was an avid movie watcher, and what I loved the most was big screen Indian blockbusters. The lights dimmed, the curtains lifted and what unfolded in the next 3 hours left me speechless and stunned. My parents took my brother and me for our first musical theatre experience. Broadway Debut of DDLJ Picture Source: SuppliedĪDITYA CHOPRA’s Love affair with Broadway:
Aditya has been working on this passion project for the past three years and has brought together a stellar, extremely diverse team, comprising some of the best talents of Broadway and India for the same. Popularly called DDLJ, it is one of the highest-grossing movies in the history of Indian cinema and the biggest IP of the country’s rich and diverse movie industry.Īfter 26 years, Aditya Chopra is set to direct DDLJ again but this time on Broadway. His debut feature, the historic romantic film ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge‘, which was released in 1995, is still running in theatres. Indian film-maker Aditya Chopra is set to make his Broadway directorial debut with his record-setting worldwide blockbuster, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ).Ĭhairman and Managing Director of India’s biggest film studio Yash Raj Films, Aditya Chopra has directed and produced some of the biggest blockbusters in the history of Indian cinema.
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