DCH means a lot of different things to different people (btw if the alphabets D, C and H put together means nothing to you there isn't any point reading on). It has clearly been one of the most universally acclaimed films from the Bollywood stable and one of the freshest splashes by a first time director. I am sure people hold the film close to their heart for different reasons but today with this post I wish to point out the lessons in life it hands out as to what kind of person one ought to or ought not be to gain universal acceptability in the society. The 'what not be's' are littered all across the movie and serve as classic examples to all of us. Right from the overpossesive and brash Preity's boyfriend, to the bumbling 'timetable' geek, to the 'I've got you by your skin' girlfriend played by Suchitra, to the lost puppy in love wannabe 'Aaaaaaaa.....kaash' girlfriend, these are all people we encounter in life and are left with the feeling with a 'wish we hadn't' feeling at the end of the day.
Now moving over to the principal characters of the movie I am sure a lot of us identify with at least one of three characters Akash, Sid or Sam brilliantly played out by Aaamir Khan, Akshaye Khanna and Saif Ali Khan respectively. Between the three they cover most kinds of people that we encounter in our lives. I am sure if one really wanted they could easily pick out the Akash out of a party, or the Sid amongst a group of friends or the Sam on a dance floor. In the movie Aamir plays a happy go lucky kid who is always the life of the party but a person who cares very little for other people's emotions. Saif plays a die hard clueless romantic who is always the most gullible and gets picked on by most of his friends as he goes on lovingly bumbling through his life. Akshaye plays the moony eyed deep introvert thinker who doesn't care for much outside his own comfort zone. But through the emotional roller coaster ride of the movie we see that all 3 characters change in their own ways. Thus Akash earns to care, he learns to love and he turns into a bit like Sid's character in the end forced to be more empathetic in life. Sam turns into a bit of Akash as he learns to be his own man and make decisions for himself. Sid turns into a bit of Sam learns to open up to people like his mom and the woman he falls in love with as he is forced to let go of his emotions not fearful anymore of getting hurt emotionally. Just like the movie I think we all too in some way start out as one of these individuals in our lives. But just like the movie we all change for the better. We mature to be better individuals.
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Whenever a movie, makes the viewers able to relate to the characters it becomes a hit and tends to stay in the viewers' minds.
I love DCH
I dont relate of any of the three characters there...
I love RDB as well
and can relate more to the characters in that movie....specifically Karan.
Why did u think abt DCH after such a long time...I liked the movie too...it was very refreshing
pointy and his lame ass comment..err..nicely written with all the insightful analysis. Could have been a good review for the movie :p ..dude, PCG on the weekend and do reply to the mail..create a snowball :)
DCH is one of my fav movies of all time!
i disagree with this line tho- But just like the movie we all change for the better. We mature to be better individuals.
i feel we evolve to become what we need to become. better or worse is quite subjective and context-dependant.
i've seen people mature to become terrible indivduals (in my eyes) but to them..they do what is neccessary for them
agree with mahima..look at point5..he thinks he has matured..into we-all-know-what :))
so which character r u RK? Btw totti too matured and showed up for PSCC practice while still actively recruiting for PCG. Now that is lovalty... C u all at PCG sunday.
hmm..my alltime fav..love aamir and saif ali khan in this movie!
Well, DCH is about maturing for sure... But I do think that there are more characters in real life than in the movie... But we keep changing for sure... and on most occassions change is good too... :)
I guess a lot of people ended up identifying with the characters in the movie. It was an icon of our times. And the characters were very real and very well laid out. And like circumstances in the movie result in changing and maturing of the characters, we change and mature in our lives due to circumstances. But whether it is all for the better I'm not so sure. Although I hope and wish that it is true.
@Jinguchakka Very true but not always the case coz if you notice in comic and villanous its the more over the top and detached from reality characters that stay on viewer's minds
@Zufikar Now that I think about it mebbe my observation is more true for guys than girls though, Karan the character is quite similar in ways to Sid in my mind anyways
@Point 5 I think it was coz of the hype about DON (the next Farhan Akhtar movie which irrepsective of how the movie turns out is quite a waste of Farhan's talent)
@totti Aha the battle royale resumes with Pointy, PCG was good fun as always
@mahima I think we all go through more experiences in life as we meet more people and we should ideally end up as more wiser and well rounded individuals because life is a pretty good teacher in my mind, if not then we need to take a long hard look at ourself (of course discounting for incidents that scar people or just make them into bitter individuals)
@totti There you go again :)
@wagla A mix of Sid and Akash (of course with a dash of Tendlya ;) )
@White Forest Right up there with my favs too
@Born a Libran But of course there's more to life, its not just black and white, a lot of grays and blues and pinks and greens etc etc :)
@M I would like to beleive we all mature to be better people as I said above in response to Mahima's comment barring a few exceptions of course
Love the movie... not because I can relate to any of them - hell, they are all just too rich, but because its about friendship. And friendship is a theme very close to my heart.
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