Exclusive: Anupam Kher says
Actor Anupam Kher shared his views how love stories in films have changed over time. He believes that ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ will not be released for the first time in 2025 due to transferring social values.

In short
- Anupam Kher feels that the love stories of the old school cannot appeal to today’s audience
- He remembers the slow, longing romance of classic films
- Kher praised Sanam Dil De Chuke Sanam for capturing true romantic essence
Veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher is ready for the release of ‘Metro … In Dino’, in front of the actor Nina Gupta. Now, in a special chat with India today, the actor opened about how love and its portrayal has developed in films or perhaps, has been contaminated over time. He also opened how Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge would not work when released in 2025.
In a special conversation, Kher said, “Everything that happens in the world around us is reflected in our films – whether it is in songs, language, or the way we communicate love. First, there was a certain, a certain, one was certain. Kashish (Appeal), a longing in romance. ,
Recalling the old days of cinema, he said, “In those times, we never used to talk directly. It takes time to fall in love. Even going to bed with someone was not immediate – first love, then no love, then marriage, then sex. Now it likes it, fall in love today, fall in love today, and do sex the next day. Do not do anything wrong with it.
Kher expressed his yearning for romantic films, “I am craving to see a love story where there is a certain amount KashishThis is why I felt that we were Dil De Chuke Sanam was such a beautiful romantic film – Sanjay Leela Bhansali caught that essence so well. It was all .. “
He continued with a rhetoric, asking, “But now, one is certain Gabrahat (Restlessness). Where is the beauty of a romantic film now? Tell me – what did you see the romantic film in the last true sense? Absolutely. nobody.
When asked why it was easy to tell love stories in the past, he replied, “Cloudy is cloudy (Society has changed). Films reflect society. If you now make a love story of an old school, then perhaps few people will go to see it. ,
Asked if in 2025, ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaig’ was released for the first time, would it have done this, Anupam said, “No, I don’t think it will happen today, it works today, it works due to its indifferent value. But if it was built for the first time, it was not. It was not too. The 90s and earlier, we were the new ones.
And yet, they believe that love is finished as a feeling – it has just shifted manifestations that have moved. “Love, at its core, can remain the same – but the way we express, paint, and change it with every generation.”