Deewana

This is the film that marked the debut of the hottest Bollywood star of the 1990s – Shah Rukh Khan. His advent, both in this film and the industry, couldn’t have come at a better time. Graying heroes like Rishi Kapoor romancing nymphets like Divya Bharati was getting on the audience’s nerves. And then to see a young man, bristling with energy and life, burst onto the screen was as refreshing as sunlight in the midst of an English winter.

Raj Kanwar’s film had nothing new to offer in the first half. Rishi Kapoor is a rich young singer, who falls in love with and marries Di....