"But 12 years is a long time, witnessing some good and some bad too.

Amrish Puri, who played the stern patriarch, has passed away since and the composer duo Jatin-Lalit, who churned out eternal hits "Mere khwaabon mein", "Mehndi lagaake rakhna" and "Tujhe dekha to", has split.

DDLJ may have broken the record established by "Sholay", which ran continuously for five years at Minerva cinema hall, but it still has some time before it enters the Guinness Book of World Records, which is held by a Chinese film running continuously for the last 20 years.

Who knows, however? DDLJ might just be that one Indian film to be watched by generations of moviegoers.