26 Years Of Dil Se - Page 6

Originally posted by: Clochette

Can't give you a precise answer for Devdas but it had been the first SRK movie I watched with French subtitles as Devdas was t h e movie that established his French fan-following.

Both Fritz Lang's movies dealing with India had been German productions, btw.

I randomly chose Mohabbatein first out of the 3 as the synopsis recalled me the subject of one of my favourite Robin Williams' movies (Dead Poets' Society). As for the TV channel...it is a private German one who screened SRK- (and later other Hindi) movies because of the owner's liking for K3G (the first dubbed one, but shown in a shortened version about which I only read much later)... he got to like SRK-movies through a Karan Johar stay in Germany (Rapid Eye Movies). SRK's movies then got dubbed by the same German actor (Patrick Breuer) who later also played a role in Don 2.

SRK and his kind of cinema became the only one I really studied - first through his (and other) movies and media and then through meeting SRK to get to know the person. Comparing with all the fans I met throughout the years, my approach to SRK hadn't been that of a fan (which he himself also said) but I always loved his fans for their own positivity and enthusiasm.

I can see why Devdas would have so much appeal to the French. It's very much like a tragic French novel.

That explains it. I haven't seen his actual German films.

Out of those three initial films, I can see why Mohabbatein would appeal most since it's inspired by the Dead Poets Society. Both K3G and Main Hoon Na are original works. Do the songs get cut out of the shortened version of K3G? I have a German friend who used to tell me that many old Disney movies would also screen on TV heavily edited. Pete's Dragon would have all the songs cut out and Bedknobs and Broomsticks removed all references to Nazis.

Yes, even in your posts on here, they don't read like a fan's posts but more a film scholar's writings. I've seen online many blogs on SRK's films as well so his movies tend to lead to higher analysis.