Mumbai, July 20 -- That's what happened to every view at the end. Their hearts stopped for a second at the climax of Karan Johar's 'Dhadak' that opened on this day in 2018. The film's knockout actors - Janhvi Kapoor and Ishaan Khatter - both doing mainstream Bollywood cinema for the first time, shooting into the stratosphere with this avant-garde cinema directed by Shashank Khaitan.

There were several reasons why 'Dhadak' was a path-breaking success. Two were Janhvi and Ishaan. The film was a simple story set in the architectural splendor of Udaipur, their love taking them through the narrow, twisting lanes with shops and temples of another time zone, on Lake Pichola with its palace hotel, the serenity and slow pace of the city offset by...