The phenomenal success of Sooraj Barjatya's school of virtuous thoughts (Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Aapke Hain Koun) impressed and inspired a 23-year-old Aditya to start writing Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

Even Aditya could not in his wildest dreams imagined what a super-duper response this magical Europe-to-India romance, between a frolicsome Raj (SRK) and demure Simran (Kajol), would conjure.

Besides getting heady million-dollar acclaim and winning all sorts of awards (National, Filmfare), it truly influenced the course of film-making and script-writing in Bollywood and became the longest running film in Indian cinema's history.

In the picture: A still from Hum Aapke Hain Koun.

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