A big sign leads you to the ‘India Village’ but more than that, this city honoured the filmmaker with the title “Ambassador of Interlaken’. This is the city that Yash Chopra made his own and where a majority of his films were shot. Until I reached Interlaken, where I suddenly expected to see most of Bollywood at every corner. The cows were grazing with bells around their neck (that Swiss cow bell also an iconic moment in the movie), the storybook houses were intact and I kept visualising SRK and Kajol driving by in that red car. It was as beautiful as it was in the movies. I visited Switzerland for the first time this summer. On their journey, Raj and Simran showed us the Euro rail and we realised train travel did not always have to smell of parathas and pickles! (And that you must almost miss your train to win your man). Instead, it was more like the mills and boon stuff or fluff that we were reading hidden from our mothers in those days although Raj was far from the typical tall, dark or handsome hero we wanted to swoon over! (Who would have seen that radical shift of a dream man on a horse sweeping us off our feet to our hero instead sitting on a ground feeding pigeons?). Not the rustic Sholay love that had mesmerised the audience exactly 20 years before DDLJ’s release, nor today’s Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt type of funky love. Raj (SRK) and Simran (Kajol) also introduced us to romance in Bollywood.
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