Ladies Dabba

When I first noticed the title track of the movie Dil Se (1998) on a sunny afternoon of 2010, I was quickly transported to Ladakh. In the movie, Amarkanth Varma (Shahrukh Khan), a Delhi-based broadcaster, falls for a mysterious Assamese woman, Meghna, who happens to be a suicide bomber. While listening to the song, I imagined myself at one end of the bridge (as shown in the movie) waiting for my then partner to come running towards me. Well, we actually tried doing this on our school playground, where I asked him to come running towards me but, unlike the movie, here our stunt was “caught” by our PT teacher who called our parents to school the next day. The line of the song which inspired us to do that ‘stunt’ goes like this :                        “ Dil hai toh phir dard hoga;                          Dard hai to dil bhi hoga,                         Mausam guzarte rehte, dil se, dil se, dil se, dil se,                         Dil Se re.”.