Dil Chahta Hai
by Farhan Akhtar
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Actor: Aamir Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Saif Ali Khan, Sonali KulkarniDirector: Farhan Akhtar
Cinematographer: Ravi K. Chandran
Writer: Farhan Akhtar
Editor: A. Sreekar Prasad
Producer: Anupam Sharma
Producer: Pravin Talreja
Producer: Ritesh Sidhwani
Writer: Kassim Jagmagia
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); Hindi (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Urdu (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 183 minutes
Movie Reviews of Dil Chahta Hai
Movie Review: Funny, charming, intelligent Bollywood film
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a huge hit in India, seen as an important step towards hipper,
less cliché Bollywood film-making, that combined the strength of
western films (more low key and subtle story and acting, slicker
technical values) with the Indian use of musical numbers, big themes
and epic running times.
The story is about 3 young men graduating from university, their
friendship, and how each deals with love and women.
There are things I could criticize. That 3 hour running time for one thing may
be hard on a US audience (just a cultural difference - that's a common
length in India). Casting actors who are clearly in their mid-30s to play
kids just graduating from college. A score that sounds like a Giorgio Moroder
cast off from the 1980s, and 'happy' montages that look like something Richard
Lester would have done in the early 1960s.
So why did I like it so much? Maybe it just caught me at the
right moment... it's just pretty damn infectious; the
few musical numbers feel slyly integrated (fantasies, performing in a
night club) and cleverly staged, instead of just stuck on. The songs
are good, with catchy melodies and clever wordplay. While the actors
are too old they're charming and natural in their roles. A lot of
clever, funny lines manage to translate across cultures, and while the
dramatic side could be attacked as hackneyed, and a more than a little
paternalistic, I still found myself caught up. Maybe on re-seeing it
I'll downgrade it. But the bottom line was, I had a fun, involved 3
hours I was glad to spend with this film. I smiled a lot. I cared about
what happened and how things turned out, and I was charmed, not turned
off by the seeming anachronisms.
One note, there are a lot of different DVD editions floating around. I saw the one
released by 'Spark' (the one pictured with the red cover), which looked decent, and was
a dual level disc. But when I ordered it, I got a knock off single layered
disc by a different company that has a much weaker image. I then
ordered from another company and got the correct 'Spark'
version (measures about 7.23GB per my computer).
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