Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge has been taken off from the Maratha Mandir screen after running continuously for 1009 weeks. As millions of fans in India and around the world sigh in sorrow and lament the end of a fascinating run of around 7000 days, I have a confession which will surely frustrate some of you, destroy relationships around me and probably leave me homeless.

I have never seen, nor do I ever want to, watch DDLJ.

Oh no please, Shah Rukh, please don't cry. The million other times you did in all of your films, was enough.

But you cannot live in India without hearing someone quote a line from the movie now and then, escape DDLJ memes flooding the internet, or even pretend to smile and nod when someone has a "DDLJ moment" on the Delhi Metro.

Naturally, to survive here, some rudimentary understanding of the basic story-line is MANDATORY.

But as someone who has been brought up in the 21st century, many of the "pathbreaking" ideas which made Dilwale standout when it released, seem pretty commonplace to me.