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YASH CHOPRA: The King Of White Romance
By:
By
Enkayaar
Tuesday,
March
06,
2007
Conferring
of
Life
Time
Achievement
Award
on
Yash
Chopra
by
the
Filmfare
is
an
affirmation
that
Yash
Chopra
has
been
successful
in
being
able
to
continue
to
hold
the
baton
of
Raj
Kapoor
as
being
the
king
of
romance
with
aplomb.
This
is,
because
he
is
the
king
who
has
sought
of
patented
white
as
the
medium
to
portray
romance,
and
as
such
has
given
romance
an
ethereal
touch,
because
romance
is
symbolized
through
colors,
but
Yash
Chopra
has
white
as
a
colour
to
convey
romance.
And
this
is
what
distinguishes
him
from
his
peers,
and
makes
him
a
worthy
successor
of
romance
of
the
Raj
Kapoor
variety,
as
for
Raj
Kapoor
romance
was
white
and
white
was
romance,
and
Simmi
Grewal
is
a
manifestation
of
this
oeuvre
of
Raj
Kapoor.
It all started with Kabhie Kabhie where an Amitabh Bachchan and Rakhee where enveloped in the clouds of white in the gardens of Kashmir valley under the carpet of chinar leaves, followed by Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh in the same tradition in the same film and continued with finesse up to Dilwaale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, and had sporadic touch of it in Veer Zaara. Whenever Yash Chopra has picked up the baton of direction, and of the romantic variety it is white that dominates the image and appears as the recurring motif.
It was an Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha in Silsila in pristine white romancing in the lavishly laid out fields of daffodils in Holland, after which Rekha had also become dyed in wool convert of the white variety or for that matter a Sridevi in Chandni romancing another romantic of the white variety Rishi Kapoor. In an interesting contrast Juhi Chawla was portrayed in yellow in Chandni and was sort of symbolic of pain and pathos.
Then in Mohabbatein where also romantic oeuvres which where etched out in pristine white where the patriarch in the form of Amitabh had an over powering presence in all white against the colored portrayal of a Shah Rukh Khan. It was in Darr that Juhi Chawla was adorned in white to convey the Champaign of romance of the bubbly variety, which was followed, by the white romance in Dilwaale Dulhaniaya Le Jayenge where Kajol appeared in white whenever the emotion of romance was to be portrayed.
It was choice of white that regularly took him to Switzerland for most of his romantic movies that he directed, as it is the country, which provides white landscape of the unlimited variety and owing to white as a medium of expression, he was also conferred an honorary citizenship of Switzerland.
The ultimate tribute to his preference for white to convey romance was given by Karan Johar in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai where Rani when she was romancing was in white and also Kajol, when she was leaving the field of romance accepting defeat in white on the train, as also the daughter of Shah Rukh when she decided to being romance back in Shah Rukh's life was adorned in white.
After the conferring of this award, one more romance of white variety with Ash and Abhi should be in the offing, as it would be culmination of the journey of romance for Yash Chopra which he started with Amitabh Bachchan in Kabhie Kabhie.
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