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Box office. ₹45 crore (US$7.0 million) Dil Chahta Hai (English: The Heart Desires) is a 2001 Indian comedy-drama film starring Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni, and Dimple Kapadia.
Dil Chahta Hai (English: The Heart Desires) is a 2001 Indian comedy-drama film starring Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni, and Dimple Kapadia. The first film written and directed by Farhan Akhtar, it is set in modern-day urban Mumbai and Sydney, and focuses on a major period of transition in the lives of three young friends.
In 2001, the film won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. It performed better in the urban areas of the country compared to the rural areas, which was attributed by critics to the city-oriented lifestyle depicted in which all the characters are from rich or upper-middle-class families. Over the years, it has attained a cult status.[2]
Akash, who is a cad in his personal life, proposes to a girl named Shalini (Preity Zinta) in jest, without being aware that she is engaged to Rohit. He also engineers a breakup between Sameer and his then girlfriend Priya (Suchitra Pillai).
The three friends then go to Goa for a vacation. There Sameer falls in love with a foreign lady and while Akash and Sid return, Sameer stays with the lady. However, she turns out to be a cheat and she, along with another man, rob Sameer of his belongings and Sameer is forced to return by lorry. Akash and Sid have a good laugh at his plight.
Later, Sameer finds his parents have arranged a meeting with a potential marriage prospect. He resists at first as he does not want an arranged marriage, but the moment he sees the girl, Pooja (Sonali Kulkarni), he realizes that she is "the one". Unfortunately, she is in a relationship and Sameer has to be content with just being her friend.
Sid befriends and eventually falls in love with Tara Jaiswal (Dimple Kapadia), an older divorcee and alcoholic, who has moved into his neighbourhood and shares his love for art. He decides to keep it from her, suppressing all his feelings as he knows that she, like most other people in society, would consider this relationship scandalous. When his family and friends start finding out, everything goes wrong. Sid's mother is horrified and wrongly accuses Tara of having led Sid on. Akash makes fun of Sid's true intentions and then he slaps him which creates a rift in their friendship. Tara hears that Sid has quarreled with friends and family because of her and feeling that she has ruined his life, refuses to see him.
Meanwhile, Pooja breaks up with her boyfriend. Sameer and Pooja finally start going out after she breaks up with her boyfriend, and Sameer eventually proposes to her.
When his parents send him to Sydney, Australia to work for the family business, Akash finds he is coincidentally seated next to Shalini. He apologises for his earlier prank and asks her to show him around the new city. Though Shalini is engaged, she agrees and soon finds herself enjoying his company. She tries to find out how he feels, but he holds back. Eventually, she then leaves for India to marry Rohit. Akash tries to let her go, but then realises that he is unable to. He returns to India and proposes to her on the eve of her wedding. She accepts with her family's blessing.
Tara has been hospitalized with liver cirrhosis and dies with Sid at her bedside. Sid and Akash finally reconcile. Six months later the three friends go to Goa to rekindle fond memories along with Shalini and Pooja. There, Sid meets a pretty girl (Mandala Tayde), who is also vacationing in Goa . They share a smile, implying that Sid is finally moving on from Tara.
Initially, Akhtar wanted Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan and Akshaye Khanna in the three main roles. While Khanna agreed to do the film, Roshan and Bachchan were unavailable. Akhtar offered the part of Akash to Khanna and he offered the part of Sid to Aamir Khan. However, Khan did not want to play Sid and wanted to play Akash instead. Khanna agreed to play Sid so that Khan could play Akash. Afterwards, Saif Ali Khan joined the cast as Sameer. Preity Zinta and Sonali Kulkarni were cast as Shalini and Pooja respectively. Akhtar convinced actress Dimple Kapadia to come out of retirement to play the role of divorcée Tara Jaiswal. After 15 months of extensive pre-production, the film was shot over a four-month period in Mumbai, India and Sydney, Australia.[4]
Dil Chahta Hai's style extended to the music and its picturisation. One song sequence recapitulates and, to some extent, parodies Bollywood song-and-dance history. Other songs drop the usual dance accompaniment — one depicts an argument between two protagonists through the song's lyrics, another establishes the character's state of mind through a moody photo collage, while yet another imagines the beautiful and idealised world of an artist in love through a song inside a painting. There is an extended opera sequence at the Sydney Opera House, which was exclusively commissioned for the film.[4]
Beth Watkins of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "The mix of humour, emotion, sincerity and wisdom makes “Dil Chahta Hai” a truly enduring film."[6] Sita Menon of Rediff.com concluded that the film was "Slick and witty".[7]
Dil Chahta Hai was screened at the International Film Festival of India, the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival.[8][9][10]
| Dil Chahta Hai | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Farhan Akhtar |
| Produced by | Ritesh Sidhwani |
| Written by | Farhan Akhtar |
| Screenplay by | Farhan Akhtar |
| Story by | Farhan Akhtar Kassim Jagmagia |
| Starring | Aamir Khan Saif Ali Khan Akshaye Khanna Preity Zinta Sonali Kulkarni Dimple Kapadia |
| Music by | Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy |
| Cinematography | Ravi K. Chandran |
| Edited by | A. Sreekar Prasad |
| Distributed by | Excel Entertainment |
Release date
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Running time
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184 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹14 crore (US$2.2 million)[1] |
| Box office | ₹45 crore (US$7.0 million)[1] |
In 2001, the film won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. It performed better in the urban areas of the country compared to the rural areas, which was attributed by critics to the city-oriented lifestyle depicted in which all the characters are from rich or upper-middle-class families. Over the years, it has attained a cult status.[2]
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Plot
The movie is about three childhood friends, Akash Malhotra (Aamir Khan), Sameer Mulchandani (Saif Ali Khan), and Siddharth "Sid" Sinha (Akshaye Khanna). Akash does not believe in the concept of love and does not engage in relationships lasting more than two weeks. Sameer is a genial, well-meaning, desperately romantic, but confused guy who is prone to romantic infatuations and believes to have found true love whenever he gets attracted to a girl. Sid, an artist by profession and the most mature of the three, is not interested in trivial romances and is dedicated to his work.Akash, who is a cad in his personal life, proposes to a girl named Shalini (Preity Zinta) in jest, without being aware that she is engaged to Rohit. He also engineers a breakup between Sameer and his then girlfriend Priya (Suchitra Pillai).
The three friends then go to Goa for a vacation. There Sameer falls in love with a foreign lady and while Akash and Sid return, Sameer stays with the lady. However, she turns out to be a cheat and she, along with another man, rob Sameer of his belongings and Sameer is forced to return by lorry. Akash and Sid have a good laugh at his plight.
Later, Sameer finds his parents have arranged a meeting with a potential marriage prospect. He resists at first as he does not want an arranged marriage, but the moment he sees the girl, Pooja (Sonali Kulkarni), he realizes that she is "the one". Unfortunately, she is in a relationship and Sameer has to be content with just being her friend.
Sid befriends and eventually falls in love with Tara Jaiswal (Dimple Kapadia), an older divorcee and alcoholic, who has moved into his neighbourhood and shares his love for art. He decides to keep it from her, suppressing all his feelings as he knows that she, like most other people in society, would consider this relationship scandalous. When his family and friends start finding out, everything goes wrong. Sid's mother is horrified and wrongly accuses Tara of having led Sid on. Akash makes fun of Sid's true intentions and then he slaps him which creates a rift in their friendship. Tara hears that Sid has quarreled with friends and family because of her and feeling that she has ruined his life, refuses to see him.
Meanwhile, Pooja breaks up with her boyfriend. Sameer and Pooja finally start going out after she breaks up with her boyfriend, and Sameer eventually proposes to her.
When his parents send him to Sydney, Australia to work for the family business, Akash finds he is coincidentally seated next to Shalini. He apologises for his earlier prank and asks her to show him around the new city. Though Shalini is engaged, she agrees and soon finds herself enjoying his company. She tries to find out how he feels, but he holds back. Eventually, she then leaves for India to marry Rohit. Akash tries to let her go, but then realises that he is unable to. He returns to India and proposes to her on the eve of her wedding. She accepts with her family's blessing.
Tara has been hospitalized with liver cirrhosis and dies with Sid at her bedside. Sid and Akash finally reconcile. Six months later the three friends go to Goa to rekindle fond memories along with Shalini and Pooja. There, Sid meets a pretty girl (Mandala Tayde), who is also vacationing in Goa . They share a smile, implying that Sid is finally moving on from Tara.
Cast
- Aamir Khan as Akash Malhotra
- Saif Ali Khan as Sameer Mulchandani
- Akshaye Khanna as Siddharth "Sid" Sinha
- Preity Zinta as Shalini
- Sonali Kulkarni as Pooja
- Dimple Kapadia as Tara Jaiswal
- Ayub Khan as Rohit
- Mandala Tayde as Sid's Partner
- Rajat Kapoor as Mahesh
- Rakesh Pandey as Rohit's Father
- Smita Oak as Rohit's Mother
- Suchitra Pillai as Priya
- Suhasini Mulay as Sid's Mother
- Anjula Bedi as Sameer's Mother
- Ahmed Khan as Aakash's Father-A K Malhotra
- Samantha Treymane as Deepa
- Kiran Rao as Deepa's Friend
- Asad Dadarkar as Subodh
- Raj Zutshi as Ajay's voice (Tara'a ex-husband)
Soundtrack
All lyrics written by Javed Akhtar, except "koi kahe kehta rahe",which was written by Sameer.; all music composed by Shankar Ehsaan Loy.| No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Dil Chahta Hai" | Shankar Mahadevan, Clinton Cerejo | 5:11 |
| 2. | "Jaane Kyon" | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Caralisa Monteiro | 4:49 |
| 3. | "Woh Ladki Hai Kahan" | Shaan, Kavita Krishnamurthy | 5:06 |
| 4. | "Kaisi Hai Yeh Ruth" | Srinivas | 5:29 |
| 5. | "Koi Kahe Kehta Rahe" | Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan, KK | 5:46 |
| 6. | "Akash's Love Theme" | Michael Harvey | 2:10 |
| 7. | "Tanhayee" | Sonu Nigam | 6:10 |
| 8. | "Dil Chahta Hai (Reprise)" | Shankar Mahadevan, Clinton Cerejo | 4:18 |
| 9. | "Rocking Goa" | Chorus | 2:06 |
Production
The movie is partially based on writer-director Farhan Akhtar's diaries on his trips to Las Vegas, his 1996 month-and-a-half long stay at New York City, and a storyline narrated to him by a friend.[3] Farhan Akhtar began work on the script in 1998; the relationship of the characters Akash and Shalini was based on a similar experience of one of Akhtar's friends.[4] Other parts of Dil Chahta Hai were adapted from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.[5]Initially, Akhtar wanted Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan and Akshaye Khanna in the three main roles. While Khanna agreed to do the film, Roshan and Bachchan were unavailable. Akhtar offered the part of Akash to Khanna and he offered the part of Sid to Aamir Khan. However, Khan did not want to play Sid and wanted to play Akash instead. Khanna agreed to play Sid so that Khan could play Akash. Afterwards, Saif Ali Khan joined the cast as Sameer. Preity Zinta and Sonali Kulkarni were cast as Shalini and Pooja respectively. Akhtar convinced actress Dimple Kapadia to come out of retirement to play the role of divorcée Tara Jaiswal. After 15 months of extensive pre-production, the film was shot over a four-month period in Mumbai, India and Sydney, Australia.[4]
Dil Chahta Hai's style extended to the music and its picturisation. One song sequence recapitulates and, to some extent, parodies Bollywood song-and-dance history. Other songs drop the usual dance accompaniment — one depicts an argument between two protagonists through the song's lyrics, another establishes the character's state of mind through a moody photo collage, while yet another imagines the beautiful and idealised world of an artist in love through a song inside a painting. There is an extended opera sequence at the Sydney Opera House, which was exclusively commissioned for the film.[4]
Reception
Critical response
The film received praise from critics for portraying contemporary Indian youth as cosmopolitan and urban. The characters are depicted as upper-class with lavish houses and designer clothes. They attend art exhibitions and performances of Western opera, and travel overseas as a matter of course. Some critics opined that Dil Chahta Hai did not perform well in the non-urban areas because the lifestyle depicted was too city-oriented.[2]Beth Watkins of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "The mix of humour, emotion, sincerity and wisdom makes “Dil Chahta Hai” a truly enduring film."[6] Sita Menon of Rediff.com concluded that the film was "Slick and witty".[7]
Dil Chahta Hai was screened at the International Film Festival of India, the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival.[8][9][10]
Accolades
Sequel
In 2016, Akhtar stated that he had "a lot on his mind" about a sequel to Dil Chahta Hai.[11]See also
Dil Chahta Hai (2001) - IMDb
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Rating: 8.2/10 - 55,688 votes
Dil Chahta Hai (2001) Not Rated | 3h 3min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 24 July 2001 (India)
Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of
college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and
their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.
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Storyline
Three young men Akash, Sameer, and Siddharth are close friends, but
their tastes and characters are completely incompatible. So when
Siddharth falls in love with a much older woman, Tara, a woman who has
been unsuccessful in keeping her marriage intact as well as
alcohol-dependent, widens the rift between the trio, forcing them to
part company. Years later, the trio will be re-united, they will be much
mature and understanding, but will they still accept Siddharth love for
Tara, especially when they themselves have fallen in love with women
around their respective ages? Written by
Sonia
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Budget:
INR 140,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
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Akash's father: Really... What is that?
Akash Malhotra: I don't know, but as soon as I do, you will be the first to know.
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Sung by Shankar Mahadevan
Lyrics by Javed Akhtar
Composed by Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani & Loy Mendonsa
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Farhan Akhtar approached Sikander Kher to play Saif Ali Khan's role. But Sikander was still not ready to debut in films. See more »Quotes
Akash Malhotra: Dad, there is more to life than just signing checks.Akash's father: Really... What is that?
Akash Malhotra: I don't know, but as soon as I do, you will be the first to know.
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Dil Chahta HaiSung by Shankar Mahadevan
Lyrics by Javed Akhtar
Composed by Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani & Loy Mendonsa
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Where as Yaadein is probably one of the worst things to come out of a camera, DCH is one the best. It's just one of those films you'll find hard not to like, basically because it's exactly how the medium of Indian films should be used.
Rather than just cut and paste a song into the film, the filmmakers have done very well to make each song feel wanted, visually interesting, and they never drag. The result is a near 3hr film that just flies by. Comedy, Drama, Great Songs, love stories that work, and some truly excellent casting. Everyone carries the film, and the 3 guys, Safi, Akshay and Aamir are too good together!
Hopefully this film is a wake up call to the rest of Bollywood, who seem to be obsessed with unoriginality. Technically DCH can easily stand up against anything from the West. Editing, Directing, Cinematography, lighting, set design -- everything just works so well.
Sometimes Bollywood can produce some truly great films, and this is most definately one of them!! You must watch it.
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