Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge: Scene Drops at Maratha Mandir

Uninterrupted 1009 weeks!!!! Bade Bade Desh o mein, aise choti-choti baate hoti rehti hai!

It was a huge run down the line. This was the last morning for the uninterrupted 1009 weeks streak of DDLJ on Maratha Mandir, Mumbai. The SRK-Kajol blockbuster started its run from 19^th October, 1995. After the glories 20 years streak, it fed the eyes of 210 audience on its final show. The film played out in the 9:15 AM show today for the last time at the theatre.

Maratha Mandir overseeing Chief Manoj Desai, nonetheless, told news org IANS that they have 1105 seats in one screen and out of which barely 100 to 200 seats used to get possessed so it would not bode well to run it any more. Though on December 12, 2014, when, DDLJ finished 1000 weeks at the silver screen a year ago, reports proposed the film would be pulled from the single screen theatre in the wake of praising the 1000-week development, yet that time Mr Desai told the press that they were not wanting to evacuate DDLJ show. He had likewise said that Aditya Chopra and he will keep on showing the film in Maratha Mandir the length of they need to. Not to specify Dilwale Duhania Le Jayenge was Aditya Chopra's first film as chief. The tickets for DDLJ were sold at Rs 20, Rs 17 and Rs 15 - much less expensive than the costs charged by multiplexes. They had a DDLJ show day by day at 11.30 am and on weekdays and there used to be 40 to 50 every penny inhabitancies and on the weekend it had a houseful of crowd.

DDLJ's 1009-week continuous run makes it the longest running film ever, a record already held by 1975 blockbuster Sholay which ran in Mumbai's Minerva Theatre for a long time.