New Delhi: Kajol's Simran running towards a moving train to hold the outstretched hand of Shah Rukh Khan's Raj in \"Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge\" captures one of Hindi's cinema's most loved happily-ever-after moments in freeze frame. And it has enamoured filmmakers so much that they keep recreating it movie after movie.

Trains are the connecting leitmotif for Raj and Simran in the Aditya Chopra-directed film -- celebrating 30 years of its release this month -- as their love story begins on one and ends on a happy note on another when the lovers unite after Simran's conservative father Baldev Singh finally approves her with the famous lines ‘Ja Simran ja, jee le apni zindagi’.

The scene is so coded in the memory of a generation of Hindi cinema lovers that even Shah Rukh Khan couldn't resi

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