the film's attitude towards the British or foreigners of any kind is downright racist and sick. Indian filmmakers like Indian society think the world especially the white world is full of vice and corrupt while they are pure in some way--a ridiculous notion ...as usual the female character has no mind of her own...and cannot make any decisions and is only "allowed" to follow her heart after the patriarch allows her to. a woman doing anything in an Indian film is always an act of benevolence. she just follows whatever the men tell her..whether it is her moronic lover played by Shahrukh who suggests they shouldn't elope to preserve some sort of Indianness. "i may be born in Britain but i am not marred by this Britishness" ..lines like this are racist and such propaganda has no place in the world. if "birth of a nation" is racist then DDLJ is doubly so. the worst thing is that this film spawned a series of "india is great, the world is *beep* films" like Pardes and Karan Johars regressive films. Shahrukhs early girlfriends are all foreign before he meets the pure Kajol..obviously because he just wanted to sleep with them and thats fine according to the film...those foreign women were sluts anyway..thats what the film seems to say. this pathetic notion of womanhood where a woman must not express herself in anyway unless aided by a man is the greatest sickness at the core of Indian society and its filmmakers feed and fuel it further. women have no ambitions except to get a man.
Review of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
