Darr (1993) was a enormously popular film as it transformed the role of a villain as being more psychologically harmful, than

physical. This film revolves around a beautiful girl named Kiran, played by Juhi Chawla, who has been tormented and stalked by a secret admirer for years. Kiran is engaged to a man named Sunil, played by Sunny Deol, and it is later found out that Sunil works for Kirans stalkers father. The character of Rahul, played by Shahrukh Khan, has been obsessed with Kiran for years, and expresses his love to her by calling her house multiple times, leaving messages on her walls, written in his blood, and repeatedly stating, I love you K-k-k-Kiran, which later goes on to be a very famous and memorable line from this film. Despite many efforts of trying to win Kiran for himself, Rahul is ultimately killed in the end by Sunil, putting an end to the terror in Kirans life. The genre of this film is thriller, but it is does not fall into the traditional characteristics of a thriller genre, in which there may be aspects of murderers or rapists that want to physically harm the main characters. This film can be characterized as a psychological thriller as it deals more with the mental torture that the villain, Rahul, puts Kiran and her family through. The traditional archetypes exemplified in this film are Kiran as the heroine, as she is shown as pure, beautiful, and innocent, and usually needs the hero, to comfort her after she receives phone calls from her stalker. Kirans fiancee, Sunil, is depicted as the hero, who is associated with all that is good, he has a good sense of humor, and jokingly likes to tease Kiran, but it is made obvious that he is also capable of protecting her. Rahul is exemplified as the archetype of the villain, though he does not have the traditional characteristics of a villain, which include physical traits such as moustache or mole, he does have a twisted mind that desires control, and allows him to believe that he can have anything or anybody he desires, at any cost. The stereotype of social classes can be analyzed in this film, by exploring the fact that Rahuls obsessive and strange behavior is due to the fact that he is a rich

and spoiled son of a wealthy man, and thinks he can always get what he wants in life by claiming it as his own. Though Kirans family is not poor, the contrast between Rahuls wealthy father and Kirans middle class household emphasizes that the rich are seen as bad, spoiled and manipulative, whereas the poor are seen as god-fearing, and good hearted people. The music for this film is by music director, Shiv-Hari, and the songs from this film are still remembered today for both their lyrics and melody. The songs Tu mere samne is sung by Lata Magenshkar and Udit Narayan. It is a typical romantic song which falls into the sub category of expressing the inexpressible. The intro of this song begins with the clash of cymbals, leading the violins to play in accordance with the male singer who sings in an alap. There is a large pause and drop in the beat before the mukhda starts, this adds a dramatic effect to the song, and emphasizes the lyrics in the mukhda. As the male singer sings, the percussion is heavy and seems more intense and violent, creating the illusion that the character, Rahul, sings with intensity and force about his love for Kiran. However, this illusion changes when the female singer starts to sing, her voice is innocent and sweet, depicting that when she is with him, the atmosphere becomes more light and less tense. The instruments in this song are cymbals, violins, dholak, oboe, xylophone, bongos and guitar. The arrangement of this song is intro, mukhda, interlude, anatara, mukhda, interlude, anatara, mukhda, and outro. This song is shown as Rahuls dream sequence as he is shown with Kiran in different atmospheres and settings. Rahul is seen as very intense in this song, exemplifying to the audience that his love is very deep and intense. Something that is interesting in this song is the fact that although Rahul is imagining himself and Kiran in different settings, Kirans clothes are constantly changing as they change their locations, but Rahuls clothes remain the same. This can be analyzed that Rahuls deepest desire is for Kiran to accept him exactly the way he is. The lyrics for this songs translate to, you are infront

of me, I am infront of you, should I look at you or love you? How did this happen? How do I express this feeling? These lyrics allow the audience to imagine Rahuls happiness if he were to win Kirans heart. The song Jaadu teri nazar is sung by Udit Naryan and is possibly the most popular song of this film. This song is a romantic, expressing the inexpressible song, as the character is trying to express his love for the woman he loves, by stating both positive and negative romantic messages that may not be expressed appropriately in direct words. The song begins with a few chords of an electric guitar and is led into the mukhda by Udit Narayan. There is a call and response in the mukhda between the singer, violins and a guitar. The instruments in this song are bongos, electric guitar, cello and drums. The song plays continues playing till the end, at which time the chorus repeats the mukhda, accompanied by violins until the beats drops out. The arrangement of this song is intro, mukhda, interlude, anatara, mukhda, interlude, anatara, mukhda, and outro. The video for this song shows Kiran at college with her friends, where she hears someone singing about her. The song follows Kiran listening to the song, while trying to find the singer, who she believes to be Sunil. Although the percussion and the atmosphere of this song is very light and romantic, the lyrics indicate otherwise. The song is actually being sung by Rahul, who is singing this song while watching Kiran from a place where she cannot find him. The lyrics translate to your gaze is like magic, your body is fragrant, whether you say yes or no, you are mine, Kiran. This expresses to the audience that Kirans approval is not a factor for Rahul, as he is set on winning her over, no matter what. The song Ang se ang lagana is a classic festival song in which the characters are celebrating Holi, the festival of colors. This song is sung by Alga Yagnik, Vinod Rathod, and Sudesh Bhosle. This song begins with the playing of a dufli, which is soon accompanied the

male singer. The chimpta starts to play in accordance with the male singer and the dufli, giving the melody a nice soft sound. An electronic piano plays two notes, prompting the beat to stop, followed by the female singer singing the mukhda. Belts with ghungroos on them start to accompany the dufli and leads into the interlude, which is a solo of the oboe. There is a call and response with the ghungroos, dholak, and dhol, and later with the dhol and the singers. The instruments in this song include dufli, chimpta, ghungroos, dhol, dholak, oboe, electronic piano, and banjo. The arrangement of this song is intro, mukhda, interlude, anatara, mukhda, interlude, anatara, mukhda, and outro. The video for this song shows Kiran, her family, and Sunil celebrating Holi, and having a good time. Rahul is among them, playing the dhol, with colors smeared on his face, in an attempt to stay hidden and watch Kiran from a distance. The audience is able to see how jealous Rahul gets when he sees Kiran and Sunil together, and it hints that this is a build up that will prompt Rahul to do something big in order to get rid of Sunil and have Kiran for himself. Darr is a film that changed the archetype of the villain by depicting that mental torture can be just a tormenting as physical. This film showed actor, Shahrukh Khan, playing the character of Rahul, who exemplifies many different and unique attributes of the villain archetype in contrast with the traditional, physical attributes such as moles, and moustaches. The music is this film was able to capture the audiences hearts with both the melody and the romantic yet threatening lyrics.