This was what the LA times Staff Writer wrote about a movie on July 18, 1993.

Four years earlier, this is what was seen in Indian Newspapers.

“It’s simple, fresh and brings back puppy love…It’s made 24 year olds see it 23 times…Its touched unscaled heights in so short a time.” – SUNDAY DAILY, Mumbai (Bombay)

“It is almost too tender, too sensitive. The story has been told countless times before, yet the movie is causing unprecendented scenes of hysteria all over the nation.” – THE SUNDAY OBSERVER, Delhi

“It is melodious, rhapsodic, introduces a fresh new pair and dabbles with the idyllic world of the untampered, unsullied and unbridled heart of the romantic and the naive.” – THE TIMES OF INDIA, New Delhi.

Well, you guessed it ?. All these reviews were for the movie Maine Pyar Kiya. Released 1989…the English version, released years later, with the name “When Love Calls”. I had liked, especially the first half of the movie, for its tenderness, simplicity and sensitivity. I have compiled the above quotes from the MPK movie website. Many might not agree with an article based on this for good practical reasons today….yet, many may have liked the movie at some point…during those days of innocence. Well, it is that innocence that is the highlight of the movie.

It may sound filmi but nevertheless. There are flaws, routineness and predictability in this and other similar movies as many might argue….Agreed there is nothing in the story and these movies are all larger than life..but what I like in these movies is the situations and the tenderness in which they are handled. Would not like to consider the situations from the point of a love story only, but life and relations can be much larger. In real life, it aint about a story or a happy ending but well, in little ways everyday, is it too difficult to keep the innocence alive?

The great DDLJ is respected for the respect that it gives to the elders and marriage being a traditional union of two families. As the movie said, there are two ways to everything. One quick and dirty the other right and painful. Well the way I look at it is, in a broader sense, and also considering that you need not always have a specific goal to choose a path. Sometimes you just make a choice. Sometimes the challenge could be the world subtlely and shrewdly trying to push over someone modest and simple..and you may be forgotten, unnoticed….well hopefully not for long. Keep up ur spirit, u have chosen the right path. It reminds me of my school’s motto: Let your light shine. Someone said the route from A to B can either be a straight line or you can go around in a spiral fashion integrating a lot more along the way. Can we integrate little joys, memories, thoughts and treasures that we gain along the right way?

Even Rangeela had a point, When you grow and accomplish your dreams, u might have all the joys u need. Well, at that point, would you remember to share the joys with that person next door who may not say much but u know he has been around for you from the start whenever it really mattered. Look at it again, in a broader sense, it could be some friend, some elder, anyone.

Well, thats too long. Winding up!