Shah Rukh Khan has been the OG trend setter and still makes news for his immortal roles that he has smoothly pulled. The fans and even the co-actors can never stop obsessing over the master. One of the roles that defined Shah Rukh’s Career was Raj from Dil Vale Dulhania Le Jayenge and had set the ultimate love goals 30 years back.
In the recent appearance, actor Imran Khan also mentioned about the lover boy in the movie. During the conversation Imran was asked about his idea of ‘green flags in the cinema.’ The actor didn’t give even a single thought and mentioned Raj from DDLJ.
Imran appreciates the character for taking up traditionally female roles like helping with the preparations, serving the guests, and much more and at the end is not promoting violence. Talking to the YouTube channel We Are Yuvaa, the confessed, “His portrayal in DDLJ, where, in the second half of the film, he shows up at this girl’s house and he takes on this role that is the traditionally female role..
. he says I am helping with the shaadi, I’ll take mithai here and I’ll put decorations up over there and even at the end when it comes to physical conflict, he is not fighting the guys.” In the movie Shah Rukh Khan (Raj) falls for Kajol (Simran) and travels all the way to impress her family.
Raj helps Simran’s family while she is getting engaged to Kuljeet, who is an alpha male and is planning to betray Simran. Raj trusts the process and ends up impressing Simran’s mother. Even though her mother gives them a hint and ask them to run away, Raj decides to not cherish the love by running away but by proudly owning it.
Even in the end when is asked to run away, he never fights the guys back. To this Imran adds, “He is like, I won’t, and the fact that at the end of the film, rather than taking the girl and running off, he says I will win the hearts of this entire family, one by one I will win their hearts. I found that to be refreshing and very moving and exciting when I first saw the film.
” Imran Khan has actively talked about not encouraging violence and recoils from it. In the same interview the actor also mentioned how a particular ‘sexual violence scene’ from his 2008 movie Kidnap left him devasted..
