


Indeed, no less a figure than Barack Obama quoted it during his inaugural visit to India in 2015.1999: Top Blaque - 808 Backstreet Boys - All I Have To Give Faith Evans Featuring Puff Daddy - All Night Long Smashmouth - All Star Brandy - Almost Doesn't Count Lonestar - Amazed Monica - Angel Of Mine Sarah McLachlan - Angel 112 Featuring Lil'z - Anywhere Britney Spears - Baby One More Time Matchbox 20 - Back 2 Good Brian McKnight - Back At One Juvenile Featuring Mannie Fresh & Lil' Wayne - Back That Thang Up Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos 98 Degrees - Because Of You Cher - Believe Citizen King - Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out) Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon Jay Z Featuring Amil - Can I Get A. Raj’s line – ‘Senorita bade bade desho me aisi choti choti baatein hoti rehti’ (‘Senorita, don’t get stressed by the little things’) – has crossed into daily usage. The hit song ‘Tujhe Dekha To…’ sees Simran and Raj reunited in Punjab’s rolling fields, and its lingering gazes and passionate embraces are old school Bollywood at its finest. This ultimate romance also raised the bar impossibly high for guys chasing girls. The popularity of the film (the title translates as ‘The brave-hearted will take away the bride’) is reflected in the fact that it has screened daily in Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir cinema for 19 years and counting. She goes InterRailing in Europe, meets Raj and they fall in love against the backdrop of Swiss mountains.

In London, Raj (Khan) is an immature young man, while straight-laced Simran (Kajol) is all set for a marriage arranged by her domineering father. Familiar themes of personal choice versus family responsibility, and of forbidden love, are remixed for the 1990s in this epic, era-defining romance.
