Last showing for Bollywood film that has played in same cinema for 20 years — theguardian.com

The credits rolled for a final time on Thursday for the Bollywood classic Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge as it ended a record-breaking 1,009-week run at a cinema in Mumbai. The romantic comedy, which translates as The Brave-Hearted Will Take The Bride, first began screening at Mumbai’s Marathi Mandir cinema on 20 October, 1995 when its star Shah Rukh Khan was still a relative unknown. The movie went on to become one of the best-loved of all Bollywood blockbusters and matinees at the Marathi Mandir continued to attract steady audiences, with many fans coming back again and again.

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