1 The fab four: Bunny (Ranbir Kapoor), Avi (Aditya Roy Kapoor), Aditi (Kalki Koechlin), Naina (Deepika Padukone)… these are all people we have or have had in our friends circle. Real, honest and yaaron ke yaar.
2 The trip: An adventurous trip is on the bucket list of every buddy group. Sometimes it happens, more often it does not, but the planning is what contributes to most of the fun. And when it’s a trek through snow-capped Manali then it’s super-duper fun. Love and laughter, drunken nights and sleepy mornings, this was one hell of a trip… something that we really want to go on. #Packbagsnow
3 The music: Pritam’s music was perfect for every mood and moment — from the soulful Kabira to the nightclub hit Badtameez dil, from the soothing Subhanallah to the feel-good Ilahi to the foot-tapping Dilliwaali girlfriend. Every song from the film is still played at clubs and shaadis. And yes, Holi got a new tune in Balam pichkari (above)!
4 The chemistry: Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone — exes in real life — scorched the screen with their chemistry, even when they were simply sharing a hug. And when their lips locked at the end, we all did a happy dance. #BunnyAndNainaForLife
5#Travelgoals: Bunny made travel his life and became the poster boy for
GenY that won’t stop till it sees the world. And Bunny’s job — spending three months each in Paris, Tokyo, Istanbul and Berlin — became our dream job. Yes, it still is!
6 The Bunny-Avi buddyhood: Now who wouldn’t want to have a friendship like Bunny and Avi’s. The boys related to it, the girls loved it. Bunny and Avi fought (with pillows, no less), but were always there for each other. When Bunny offers his life savings to Avi so that he can save his bar from shutting shop, Avi shuts him down with, “Saale, apne dollars se mujhe khareedna chahta hai? Aa, mere saath daaru pi!”
7 The kiss: RanPika have kissed on screen before, but there was something about Bunny locking lips with Naina in Udaipur when she confesses she’s loved him all along — and he hasn’t — that just tugs at the heartstrings.
8 The father-son bonding: Bunny’s screen-time with his dad (played wonderfully by Farooque Shaikh) may not have been much, but it made us smile and think fondly of our own dads — yes, he was like every father… worried about his son taking flight, but never wanting to clip his wings.
9 The big, fat wedding: Udaipur oh Udaipur! Every frame of the Aditi-Taran (played by Kunaal Roy Kapur) wedding was picture-perfect, Sangeet to shaadi, Mehndi to Haldi.
10 The relatability: We related to Aditi’s unfulfilled love story. We related to Avi being unaware of Aditi’s feelings for him. We related to Naina’s helplessness while letting go of Bunny. We related to Bunny following his dreams, no matter what. YJHD is so much about our lives.
11 Ranbir: RK may have played the street-smart urban guy in many films, but we just loved his Bunny a little more — a combination of charm and innocence. And those eyes!
12 Deepika: Queen DP made Naina her own. Naina may have metamorphosed from bookworm to babe, but Deepika owned each facet of Naina’s personality. And when her eyes welled up and she said “I love you” at the end, we fell in love with her. Phir se.
13 Don’t settle for average: Bunny never did. Neither did Naina, in a way. They lived the life they believed in. After all, “Tu right nahin hai Naina, bas mujhse bahut alag hai”.
14 The small moments: YJHD does not play on grand moments. It’s the small and cute moods that make the film what it is. Bunny’s “bas paanch second” plea for a hug or Naina’s summation of her friendship with Aditi: “Usne rock music suna… main earplugs lagaa ke so gayi”… we loved them all.
15 The cameos: Madhuri Dixit (right) still made our hearts go dhak dhak “Baghdad se leke Dilli via Agra” as she matched steps with Ranbir in Ghagra. And yes, we loved that two-minute appearance from Bahubali man Rana Daggubati as Naina’s SMS admirer Vikram. She didn’t get to have a beer with him, but can we… please!
Sulogna Ghosh
Bunny, my alter ego
Ilahi and Badtameez dil both sum up my experience of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. I had just graduated from college and was on to another adventure in life — a fellowship programme that I had always dreamt of — and just like every other 21-year-old, my head was full of plans. Ranbir’s Bunny felt like an alter ego at that moment. Just like him, I never wanted to stop, not even for a second. To chase my dreams relentlessly was the goal. I still have a traveller’s heart and settling down in one place for the rest of my life still scares me. The most striking scene from the film for me was when Bunny and Naina get touristy in Udaipur and just as Bunny hurries her up in his eagerness to see the next stop, Naina calmly tells him, “Jitna bhi try karo, Bunny, life mein kuch na kuch toh chhootega hi, toh jahaan hain, wahin ka mazaa lete hain”. It just changed the way I felt about so many things, and I still get goosebumps each time I watch that scene. And yes, the heartbreaking Kabira will always have a spot in my top 10 playlist.
Zeba Akhtar
Stress buster, comfort food
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is not just a film for me… it’s a stress buster. I have watched it a zillion times… when I am happy, feeling blah or have had a rough day. Bunny, Naina, Avi and Aditi are like my imaginary friends who cheer me up with their antics, dance moves and dialogues. The best part about the film is that it’s so relatable. From the first scene where Naina is flipping through pictures and goes, “Yaadein mithai ke dibbe ki tarah hoti hai, ek baar khula toh sirf ek tukda nahin kha paoge” to when Naina tells Bunny to let go sometimes. YJHD explains love better… like how it is okay to have feelings for a dear friend and yet decide to move on and get married to someone else. Like how we fall for someone and then life takes its course and we land up in different places and the love never blooms. Like how love is much more than just three words. Then there’s Ranbir and Deepika’s electrifying chemistry. Ranbir even makes the cheesiest dialogues sound cool and Deepika melts hearts in every frame. Yes, for me, YJHD is like comfort food… I can’t ever get enough of it.
Pramita Ghosh
The lines still stay with me
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is that rare film that has everything — love and laughter, heartbreak and friendship. The film packs in lessons on letting go, recognising true love when it comes knocking, how real friendships stand the test of time and that we need to value our parents before it’s too late. I loved how the film romanticised travel and took me back to my growing up years… when life was without a care and friends were for life. But what stays the most with me even after all these years are Hussain Dalal’s words… from “Tumhari jaisi ladki flirting ke liye nahin… ishq ke liye bani hai” to “Kuch logon ke saath sirf waqt bitaane se hi sab kuch theek ho jaata hai”. And when Naina tearfully tells Bunny, “Mujhe tumse pyaar ho jaayega, phir se… aur tumhein nahin hoga, phir se,” you can almost hear her heart (and yours) breaking. And then of course there’s Ilahi (above) and Amitabh Bhattacharya’s priceless lines… Mera falsafaa kandhe pe mera basta… chala main jahaan le chala mujhe rasta....
Priyanka Roy
It is about the friendships
Every time I watch Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, the traveller in me dreams of being Bunny. The romantic in me sighs with happiness for Naina. The feminist in me feels happy that Naina doesn’t trade her dreams for Bunny’s. But for me, YJHD will always be more about the friendships than anything else. For me, it’s about how people who are chalk and cheese, like Naina and Aditi, can be best friends without having to change. For me, it’s about how even losing touch with a friend, like Bunny and Avi did, doesn’t end the friendship. For me, it’s about how friendships can survive even unrequited love, like Avi and Aditi’s did. It is about discovering love in a friend, like Bunny did with Naina.
Chandreyee Chatterjee
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