Dil Se.. Film Details :
Dil Se.. is a 1998 Bollwood romantic thriller film set in the backdrop of the insurgency in Northeast India, writter & directer Mani Ratnam, and producer is Ratnam, Ram Gopal Varma, and Shekhar Kapur. The film stars Shahrukh Khan and Manisha Koirala in the lead roles, while Preity Zinta makes her film debut in a supporting role. Writter Ratnam and Tigmanshu Dhulia, the film is an example of parallel cinema and is noted as the final installment of Ratnam’s thematic trilogy that consists of Roja 1992 & Bombay1995.The film was screened at the Era New Horizons Film Festival and the Helsinki International Film Festival. Noted for its aspects nonlinear storytelling, the film won awards for cinematography, audiography, choreography, and music, among others. The film was a success overseas earning $975,000 in the United States and £537,930 in the United Kingdom,becoming the first Indian film to enter the top 10 in the United Kingdom box office charts,and it was also a hit in Japan.The film won two National Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards, while also receiving a special mention at the Netpac Awards.The film’s soundtrack album, composed by A. R. Rahman, sold six million units in India.
- Directer : Mani Ratnam
- Producer : Mani Ratnam,Ram Gopal Varma,Shekhar Kapur
- Screenplay : Mani Ratnam,Tigmanshu Dhulia
- Story : Mani Ratnam
- Starring : Shah Rukh Khan,Manisha Koirala,Preity Zinta
- Music : A. R. Rahman
- Cinematography : Santosh Sivan
- Edited : Suresh Urs
- Productioncompany : Madras Talkies,Varma Corporation
- Distributed : Eros International
- Production Design :Samir Chanda
- Art Direction:Samir Chanda
- Costume Design:Pia Benegal,Shabina Khan,Vaishali Pachauri,V. Sai
- Makeup Department :Ravi Indulkar,Kaushal,Mohan,R. Sundara Moorthy,Seenu,Uday Shirali
- Special Effects :S.A. Azim,Agnelo D’Souza,M.A. Hafeez,D. Sathyanarayana,Kambam Shankar
- Visual Effects :Elam Parithi
- Stunts :Allan Amin,Feroz,Hussain Kuwajerwala,Usman Shamshim,Ainouddin Sheikh
- Release date : 21 August 1998
- Running time : 158 minutes
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi,Tamil
Dil Se.. Movie Star Cast:
- Shahrukh Khan as Amarkant Varma
- Manisha Koirala as Moina/Meghna
- Preity Zinta as Preeti Nair
- Mita Vasisht as Mita
- Arundhati Rao as Kanval Dev Burman – AIR station director
- Raghuvir Yadav as Shukla ji – AIR manager
- Zohra Sehgal as Amar’s Grandmother
- Janagaraj as Taxi Driver
- Gautam Bora as terrorist Leader
- Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as terrorist
- Aditya Srivastava as Terrorist
- Sanjay Mishra as terrorist
- Anupam Shyam as terrorist
- Shabbir Masani as terrorist
- Krisn Kant as Kim terrorist
- Manjit Bawa as terrorist
- Vineeta Malik as Amar’s mother
- Piyush Mishra as CBI investigation officer
- Gajraj Rao as CBI investigation officer
- Priya Parulekar as Young Moina
- Malaika Arora in the item number “Chaiyya Chaiyya”
- Vanitha Malik as school teacher
- Tigmanshu Dhulia as cameo appearance as man at the post office
- Sameer Chanda as cameo appearance Tuba music shop dealer
- Shaad Ali as cameo as citizen of Silchar
- Wasiq Khan as cameo
- Pia Benegal as cameo
- Chintu Mohapatra as cameo
- Karan Nath as cameo
- Hemant Mishra as cameo
- B. M. Shah as cameo
- R. K. Nair as Preeti’s father
- Alka as Preeti’s Mother
- Rajiv Gupta as Sub inspector
- Avtar Sahani as Army general
- Lakshmi Rattan as Hazarika army official
- Suhail Nayyar as child artist
- Jessica as child artist
- Ishitha as child artist
- Subhadeep Sanyal as child artist
Dil Se.. Movie Production:
Sameer Chanda, and Wasiq Khan were the production and art designers for Dil Se. The Film Shooting took place in Himachal Pradesh, Leh, Assam, New Delhi, Kerala, and Bhutan over a period of 55 days. Tigmanshu Dhulia was the casting director. Pia Benegal and Manish Malhotra were the costume designers, Simran Bagga was Mani Rathnam’s first choice for the role that Preity Zinta eventually accepted. The song “Chaiyya Chaiyya” was shot between Malaika Arora and Shah Rukh Khan on top of the Nilgiri Express, en route Ooty, Coonoor and Kotagiri, the train is particularly painted in brown for the song sequence. The travelling scenes, other crucial scenes were shot between Manisha Koirala and Shah Rukh Khan near Alchi Monastery, during the Sindhu Darshan Festival in Leh. The longest song of the film “Satrangi Re” with the lead pair was shot near Thikse Monastery, the mystical Basgo Monastery ruins, and Pangong lake near Pangong Tso in Ladakh. The song “Jiya Jale” was shot between Priety Zinta and Shah Rukh Khan near Athirappilly Falls, Alappuzha backwaters, Periyar National Park, and Periyar Lake in Kerala. Several action sequences in the film choreographed to Allan Amin were shot near Connaught Place, New Delhi, Rajpath and Old Delhi.
Dil Se.. Movie Themes:
Dil Se is said to be a journey through the seven shades of love that are defined in ancient Arabic literature. Those shades are defined as an attraction, infatuation, love, reverence, worship, obsession, and death. The character played by Shahrukh Khan passes through each shade during the course of the film.[18] Authors Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti of Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance also compared Khan’s romance in the film to the trajectory of love in ancient Arabic literature, believing the lyrics in two of the songs to have delivered an “apocalyptic fatalism”.
The film is a dramatization of the attraction between a character from the heart of India and another from a peripheral state and a representation of opposites in the eyes of the law and society.Dil Se is described as a film “structured through deferment and unfulfilled teasing promises.” Rediff.com said about the film, “The entire feel of the film is appropriately poetic, with a few romantic exchanges standing out quite memorable. Tigmanshu Dhulia has handled the film’s dialogues adroitly. Amid moonlit desert dunes, there is a particularly stirring conversation between the leading pair. Amar reveals his hate for Meghna’s eyes – because he can’t see the world is hidden behind them and his love for the same, stunning eyes – because he can’t see the world hidden behind them.”
Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton in their book Terror and the postcolonial (2009) believe that the songs and their exotic locations in the film were very important in masking the impossible reconciliation between a terrorist and an uptight government agent by evoking pure fantasy. They argue that this is a phenomenon called the “liminal space of dreaming” in that the terrorist woman cannot fulfill her sexual desire so the songs fill the void of this desire by “their sumptuousness and exotic locales” in the Ladakh region.
Dil Se.. Movie Release and reception:
Though Dil Se received a poor box office response in India, it found success overseas. It was screened at the Era New Horizons Film Festival and the Helsinki International Film Festival The film went on to win the Netpac Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, two National Film Awards, and six Filmfare Awards. The intense political agenda of the film with the trials of the Assamese on the India-China border, the love story and the fact that it coincided with the 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations became a major factor for its success overseas, particularly amongst the South Asian diaspora in the west.
The film became the first Indian film to enter the top 10 in the United Kingdom box office charts. Even two months after its release in September 1998 the film was still screened on five screens, five times per day with an average of 3000 spectators across all screens in the Cineworld complex in Feltham, West London. Deepa Deosthalee wrote a positive review to the film, calling it “A picture perfect ode to love” and praising the direction, writing and performances. Khalid Mohamed found the film disappointing, noting it “fine performances, technique and music” but panning its lack “of that crucial element called a story”. Anupama Chopra of India Today wrote, “Amid the reels of tripe churned out by Bollywood every week, Dil Se… is a noble attempt. But coming from Mani, that’s simply not good enough.” The film was included in Time Magazine’s “Best of Bollywood” list in 2010. Dil Se was also a hit in Japan.
Dil Se.. Movie Somgs/Music:
All lyrics are written by Gulzar; all music is composed by A. R. Rahman.
- “Chaiyya Chaiyya” ————–Sukhwinder Singh & Sapna Awasthi
- “Jiya Jale” ————————Lata Mangeshkar, M. G. Sreekumar & Chorus
- “Dil Se Re” ————————A. R. Rahman, Anuradha Sriram, Anupama & Febi Mani
- “Ae Ajnabi” ————————Udit Narayan & Mahalakshmi Iyer
- “Thayya Thayya (Remix)” —–Sukhwinder Singh
- “Satrangi Re” ———————Sonu Nigam & Kavita Krishnamurthy
Dil Se.. Movie Review:
- This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.6 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 25869.
- Critics Chandanprakash74 from MouthShut give 5 star out of 5 Star.
Dil Se.. Movie Box Office Collection:
INDIA
| Schedule | Amount (in Crores) |
|---|---|
| Opening Day | 0.92 Crores |
| End of Opening Weekend | 2.68 Crores |
| End of Week 1 | 4.75 Crores |
| Lifetime Collection | 10.77 Crores |
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