The best time to visit Switzerland is probably between May to September. “ Come…fall in love” should be our mantra for all seasons and all ages. This post of mine is my little effort to make life a little easier for all those honeymooners, eternal honeymooners ( like me :P), just a seeker of beauty, fans of DDLJ for whom age is just a number and everyone who is young at heart to map your own dream Bollywood love story. The first day when I landed in Zurich airport, the incredible number of Chooda sightings made it clear that innumerable number of honeymooners had come to relive the Swiss dream that I had in my mind too. So when the time was ripe to plan my first Switzerland trip along with my homegrown ‘Raj’ in May 2014, the first thing that I did was to research about the places where DDLJ was shot and making ground plan about how to reach them. That is what Bollywood does to you and I am unabashedly a desi girl who loves her share of everything filmy.
Truth be told, millions like me who had grown up watching DDLJ, wanted to be there on the very same locations, in the very same spots while holding the hands of our beloved. When a young SRK flashes his dimpled smile and looks at his best onscreen partner Kajol to mouth the golden words – “ Koi baat nahi Senorita, bade bade deshon mein aisi choti choti baatein hoti rehti hain“, we have no other alternative left other than going weak on our knees. We have to accept it that when Sridevi romanced a ‘starting to be potbellied’ and sweater clad Rishi Kapoor, while wearing impeccable Chiffon sarees and pearls and singing – “ Tere mere hoton pe meethein, meethein geet Mitwa” in Chandni in the lush green Swiss valleys – we all wanted to be there and do a role play!Īnd then came the game changer called “ Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” (DDLJ) which has probably defined romance for everyone who belongs to my generation. No prizes for guessing the answer – Yashraj Films.
But apart from that there is one very important thing that has influenced every one of us – the ones who grew up on the staple diet of Bollywood, SRK and the nostalgia of the 90’s, to visit the nation. Undoubtedly, it is one of the most beautiful countries of the world. Every year thousands of people from all over the world visit Switzerland and a vast majority of those tourists are people from the Indian subcontinent.
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