Yeh Dillagi - Ole Ole
Remember Ole Ole and Honton Pe Bas Tera Naam Hai from Naresh Malhotra’s Yeh Dillagi? The story of Yeh Dillagi was about two rich brothers ? Vijay (Akshay Kumar) and Vicky (Saif Ali Khan) ? falling for the same girl ? their driver’s beautiful daughter Sapna (Kajol). Kajol falls for the suave and hardworking Akshay, and wants to get married to him, unaware of his brother’s love for her. Saif and Akshay’s mother, however, has no intention of getting any of her sons married to a driver’s daughter.
Yeh Dillagi is Aditya Films’ musical, young love story. The music is the main highlight of the film, and it is to the director’s credit that they have composed some amazing songs. The visuals match the music perfectly, making it a great audio-visual experience. The story revolves around a poor girl, two rich brothers, one of whom is a Casanova and the other a simple and sober businessman, and the Casanova brother tries to seduce the girl but ends up falling for her as soon as she becomes a best-selling model.
The second brother, unaware that his brother’s love story is one-sided, falls in love too, and finally sacrifices his own love for the love of the other brother. The script is fresh, the drama is well-presented, and the light scenes, fun, frolics, songs (well-arranged) and dances make the movie an enjoyable one. The gay scene with Saif is funny, the climax is predictable, and the dialogue is good.
The performance of Akshay Kumar was well done, he has just the right level of restraint in his single action scene, his dance is great, Saif Ali khan was cute and act very well, he was great in the ‘Ole Ole’ dance. Kajol has the best footage and comes out flying, her performance was commendable and she looks beautiful as the model, Saeed Jaffrey, Deven Varma, Reema Lagoo, and Neena were good supporting cast. The direction of debutant Naresh malhotra was competent. The music was a super-hit, the song ‘Ole ole ole’ was already popular among youngsters and the picturisation of this song is great. The song ‘Hothon e bas’ was also great and has been sensually panned. The picturisation of songs ‘Barkha khi ghadi’ and ‘Naam khya hai’ are well done, the title song and the ghazal of Pankaj udhas are richly sung. The cinematography was very good. Overall, this reasonably priced musical was enjoyable to watch.
The climax shows Saif realizing that Akshay and Kajol are in deep love with each other, and sacrificing his love for his brother’s sake.
Kajol reminisced with her fans about her time on the Ye Dillagi set 29 years ago. She posted a throwback photo in her social media of her co-starring in the film. The photo showed them all smiling as they posed for the camera and Kajol captioned it, “It was so much fun to be on this set… and all the little memories! Akshay was so proud of his cooking skills, and he made us a super simple but delicious dal. We had to walk almost 1.5 k up the hill in the dark because the car broke down at the bottom and we had to stay at the top with no cellphones.”
Riding a horse in a tiny skirt and believing that my hat would at least shield my face, she went on. When Saroj ji wanted to photograph us instead of the movie, Saif and I would laugh uncontrollably while we were filming Hoton Pe Bas. On set, Reemaji sat down and played cards with my mother, who she was playing for the first time. While Manish and I were going through the tribulations, #Yashji was extending his blessing and trying to offer us something to eat.What you remember most about the movie isn’t what you were feeling at the time.
Critics gave Yeh Dillagi a favorable reception. “[She] looks better than she did in Baazigar (1993) and gives a believable performance,” the Indian Express said of Kajol’s performance.
When Yeh Dillagi was released on May 6, 1994, it became a commercial triumph, earning ₹10.8 crore as opposed to its ₹1.6 crore budget. It was well-received by critics upon its premiere, with special attention paid to Kajol’s performance, which turned out to be a breakthrough for her.
At the 40th Filmfare Awards, Yeh Dillagi received 4 nominations – Best Actor (Kumar), Best Actress (Kajol), Best Music Director (Dilip Sen, Sameer Sen) and Best Male Playback Singer (Abhijeet for the song “Ole Ole”). The film was later remade in Telugu as Priya O Priya.
