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Yash Chopra was literally in love with love, and taught the world how to love love in its various colours, shades and interpretations. The suddenness of his passing away suggests nature had not planted Yashji amidst mere mortals like us to go into a reverie – Jab Tak Hai Jaan, he had to create romance out of romance.
Yash Chopra was literally in love with love, and taught the world how to love love in its various colours, shades and interpretations. The suddenness of his passing away suggests nature had not planted Yashji amidst mere mortals like us to go into a reverie – Jab Tak Hai Jaan, he had to create romance out of romance.
Wonder what Yash Chopra's soul will be doing right now up in the heavens, watching his just-left-behind human folks go about their business of life, with many of them carrying the idea of romance as one reserved for the illusory world of films, not applicable in the real world! Maybe, he is just plotting another script for his re-entry into Earth, grander and more extravagant.
For Yash Chopra, the illusory world was the real world,
where he projected his romantic interpretations with such finesse and
subtle depth that you found each one of his love triangles, though
based on the two-plus-one formula, DIFFERENT. Over so many years, one
man, obsessed with romance as an idea, came up with so many colours
that it was astonishing that the concept of love could have so many
shades. Whether it was Kabhi Kabhie, or Lamhe, or Silsila, or
Chandni, or Darr, or Dil Tho Pagal Hai, the audience found a fresh
context and a new dimension. He was literally in love with love, and
taught the world how to love love in its various colours, shades and
interpretations. His love triangles seemed same from the outside, but
there was no sameness in the inside.
Even through films like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,
which catapulted Shah Rukh Khan to superstardom, and Veer Zaara, the
depths of love as an emotion were explored with great passion and
predilection. No doubt, Yash Chopra was a very passionate human
being, reflected even in his non-romantic films like Deewar, Trishul,
and Kaala Patthar, where he got his characters to exude their roles
with tremendous focus and intensity.
In many ways, Yashji's life was a focused one. He
focused on romance, and always ensured that in the end, it was love
that won, and not merely the film's characters. While Hindi films
have always revolved around love as a predominant theme, cutting
across generations of filmmakers, Yash Chopra was an absolute
original. He brought alive the romantic feeling in dimensions as only
he could.
It seems he was born to paint the emotion of love on the
grand and illusory landscape of life, providing people with many
moments of escape from their stale and humdrum existence. It is
intriguing that the script of life snatched him away from us just
after he said he wanted to retire from direction, perhaps also to
reflect on his work and his interpretations, just as an artist would
after having finished a project. The suddenness of his passing away
suggests nature had not planted Yashji amidst mere mortals like us to
go into a reverie – Jab Tak Hai Jaan, he had to create romance out
of romance.
Yash Chopra's legacy lies not just in creating films of
a genre of which he was the master architect, it also lies in
bringing alive some extraordinary talents like Amitabh Bachchan and
Shah Rukh Khan. Amongst the pantheon of Bollywood legends who have
departed from this world, the vacuum left by Yashji can be filled
only by Yashji, as God does not make such romantics with any
imaginable frequency.
The heart says that Yashji has just taken a break. He
did not exit this world because he was tired of love, he has simply
gone on a cosmic holiday, perhaps to take fresh lessons on the idea
of romance from the creator. The world awaits his return on another
day, in another form, with a fresh wave of romantic interpretations.
Till then, his films will provide us with succour, relief and
entertainment.
Yash
Chopra – born on September 27, 1932 – went on a cosmic holiday on
October 21, 2012.
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