Dil Chahta Hai

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Dil Chahta Hai
Directed by Farhan Akhtar
Written by Farhan Akhtar,
Kassim Jagmagia
Starring Aamir Khan,
Saif Ali Khan,
Akshaye Khanna,
Preity Zinta,
Sonali Kulkarni,
Dimple Kapadia
Distributed by Excel Entertainment.
Release date(s) July 24, 2001
Running time 183 min
Language Hindi
Budget INR 200,000,000 (estimated)
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Dil Chahta Hai (Hindī: दिल चाहता है, Urdū: دل چاہتا ہے, English: The Heart Desires, but billed as Do Your Thing) is a 2001 Hindi language film written and directed by then-newcomer Farhan Akhtar, starring Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni and Dimple Kapadia. It is set in modern-day urban Mumbai and focuses on a major period of transition in the lives of three young friends.

The film was critically acclaimed, winning that year's National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. It was also a commercial success, though 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 the movie in which all the characters are, without exception, from rich or at least upper-middle-class families.

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Plot

The film is based on screenwriter, Farhan Akhtar's, diaries on his trips to Goa and his 1996 month-and-a-half long stay at New York, and a storyline narrated by a friend, which he used for Akash (Aamir Khan's character) [1].

The movie tells the story of three friends graduating from college and transitioning into life as adults. Each individual has a different perspective of life and love in particular.

Akash (Aamir Khan) does not believe in love and is of the opinion that one should never have a girlfriend for more than a period of two weeks. Sameer (Saif Ali Khan) is a genial, well-meaning, desperately romantic and confused guy. He is prone to romantic infatuations and believes that he has found true love whenever he gets attracted to a girl. Siddharth (Akshaye Khanna), or Sid, is an artist by profession and is the most serious of them all; dedicated to his work, he is not interested in trivial romances

Friends Sid (Akshaye Khanna), Sameer (Saif Ali Khan) and Akash (Aamir Khan)
Friends Sid (Akshaye Khanna), Sameer (Saif Ali Khan) and Akash (Aamir Khan)

Akash is not only a cad in his personal life (breaking hearts, proposing to a girl named Shalini (Preity Zinta) in jest), but also a mischief-maker in his friends' lives. He craftily engineers a breakup between Sameer and his girlfriend, and then plans a vacation trip to the beaches of Goa.

Sameer "falls in love" in Goa with a pretty Swiss girl, which ends in disaster. He returns home to find that his parents have arranged a meeting with a potential marriage prospect. He resists it 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 already in a relationship with someone else and Sameer has to content himself with only her friendship.

Sid, in the meantime, befriends Tara (played by Dimple Kapadia), an older divorcee and alcoholic who has moved into a nearby house. He falls in love with her, although he decides to keep it secret believing that no one would understand a relationship that would be considered scandalous in Indian society. Everything goes wrong when those close to him start finding out. Sid's mother is horrified. Akash's offensive remarks about this relationship create a rift in their friendship and they refuse to talk to each other. 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.

Akash is also experiencing romantic upheaval. His parents send him to Sydney to work for the family business. On the flight to Sydney, he meets Shalini again. He apologises to her for his earlier prank and asks her to show him around the new city. Even though Shalini is engaged to marry someone else, she finds herself agreeing and they both, eventually, start to feel a certain "something". She presses him to tell her how he feels; but he refuses. She then declares that she is returning to India to marry Rohit, her fiance. Akash lets her go, then realizes that he can't live without her.

Akash returns to India to win Shalini back. He proposes to her at her wedding, and she accepts with the blessing of her parents.

Meanwhile, Sameer and Pooja start going out after she breaks up with her boyfriend.

Sid's story is more tragic. Tara is hospitalized with cirrhosis and dies with Sid at her bedside. Sid and Akash reconcile (with a little help from Sameer) and six months later, the three friends regroup in Goa where Sid meets a new girl. They share a smile and Sid realizes that life goes on.

Cast

Aamir Khan as Akash and Preity Zinta as Shalini
Aamir Khan as Akash and Preity Zinta as Shalini

Soundtrack

Dil Chahta Hai
Dil Chahta Hai cover
Studio album by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Released 2001 (India)
Label T-Series
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy chronology
Aalavandhan
2001		 Dil Chahta Hai
2001		 Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai
2001

Lyrics : Javed Akhtar

Song Artist(s)
Dil Chahta Hai Shankar Mahadevan
Jaane Kyon Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik
Woh Ladki Hai Kahan Shaan, Kavita Krishnamurthy
Kaisi Hai Yeh Ruth Srinivas
Koi Kahe Kehta Rahe Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan, K.K
Aakash's Love Theme Instrumental - Composed by Mike Harvey
Dil Chahta Hai (Reprise) Shankar Mahadevan
Rockin' Goa Instrumental
Tanhayee Sonu Nigam

Reception

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 the film did not perform well in the non-urban areas because the lifestyle depicted in the movie was too city-oriented.[2]

The film's style extended to the music and its picturisation in the movie. One song sequence recapitulates, and to some extent, parodies Bollywood dance history. Other songs drop the usual dance accompaniment; one song 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 also an extended opera sequence, which was exclusively commissioned for the film.

The film was screened at the International Film Festival of India, the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival.[3][4][5]

Awards

The awards won are highlighted in bold.

National Film Awards

2002 Filmfare Awards

The film was nominated for thirteen Filmfare Awards. The awards it won and nominated for are listed below:

IIFA

Screen Awards

Zee Cine Awards

Others

  • Best Actor Critic's Award at Bollywood Movie Awards - Aamir Khan
  • Best Actor in a Comic Role at Bollywood Movie Awards - Saif Ali Khan
  • Best Male Playback Singer at Bollywood Music Awards - Sonu Nigam for Tanhayee


References

  1. ^ Farhan Akhtar tells it like it is Rediff.com , Movies, September 23, 2002.
  2. ^ Gulzar; Nihalani, Govind; Chatterjee, Saibal (2003). Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. Encyclopaedia Britannica (India) Pvt Ltd., p. 128. ISBN 8179910660. 
  3. ^ "2003 Palm Springs Film Fest Line-Up", Notes from Hollywood (2002). Retrieved on 2008-08-14. 
  4. ^ "Dil Chahta Hai to be screened at IFFI", The Times of India (2002-07-30). Retrieved on 2008-08-14. 
  5. ^ "Cinematic Convergence", The Austin Chronicle (2004-10-15). Retrieved on 2008-08-14. 

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