One of my clients was on a vacation to Switzerland with his wife and while driving across the country they stumbled into a small town called Saanen. The Saanen airstrip, the railway station and the surroundings seemed way too familiar and it’s wasn’t long before he discovered that these were the locations at which many of the scenes of the movie Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge were shot. (The St Mauritius church in Saanen is where the church scene was shot and the airstrip features in the Mere Khwabon Mein song, where SRK is running alongside an aircraft that’s taking off.)

He remembered having seen the movie in 1994; it was the first Hindi movie he had seen. At that time he had never stepped out of his hometown – Calicut, Kerala and every beautiful location in the movie had mesmerized him so much that he had promised himself that some day when he’d get married he would take his wife to the bridge where the famous ‘palat’ scene happens. And that iconic bridge is right next to the Saanen railway station!

Unlike many tourists who go looking for these locations, our man had bumped into them by ‘accident’. I have no doubt that this wasn’t an accident.. it was the images from the movie that he had held sub-consciously for so long that it was inevitable that he had to pass through Saanen (and that too because he lost his way and took the mountainous route instead of the highway.)

Like the Law of Gravity and every other universal law, the Law of Attraction works. Whether you believe in it, or not!