Aditya was just a teenager in the 1980s, when Bollywood went through what is now considered to be its dark period. Bollywood films lost a lot of their popularity when TV and video took customers away, and filmmakers like Yash seemed unsure of how to bring the audience back. At the age of 23, Aditya stepped in to modernize Bollywood films. His first film, Dilmale Dulhania Le Jayenge(The Brave Heart Will Take the Bride), was about Indian expatriates living in London who, in the end, get back in touch with their Indian roots and values. The movie suggested that it was possible to remain genuinely Indian while embracing globalization. It became one of the most successful Bollywood movies of all time.