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Dil Se..
English release poster
Directed byMani Ratnam
Screenplay byMani Ratnam
Story byMani Ratnam
Dialogues byTigmanshu Dhulia
Produced byBharat Shah
Mani Ratnam
Ram Gopal Varma
Shekhar Kapur
StarringShah Rukh Khan
Manisha Koirala
Preity Zinta
CinematographySantosh Sivan
Edited bySuresh Urs
Music byA. R. Rahman
Production
companies
Madras Talkies
Varma Corporation
Distributed byEros International
Release date
  • 21 August 1998 (1998-08-21)
Running time
167 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi[1]
Budget₹11.5 crores[2]
Box office₹28.40 crores[2]

Dil Se.. (lit. 'From the Heart..') is a 1998 Indian

Insurgency in Assam, the film stars Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala, while Preity Zinta makes her film debut in a supporting role. An example of parallel cinema, it is noted as the final installment in Ratnam's trilogy consisting of Roja (1992) and Bombay (1995).[3][4] The film's soundtrack album, composed by A. R. Rahman, sold six million units in India.[5]

Dil Se.. was screened at the

Era New Horizons Film Festival and the Helsinki International Film Festival. Noted for its aspects of nonlinear storytelling, the film was moderately successful at the domestic box office; however, it was a major success overseas, earning $975,000 in the United States and £537,930 in the United Kingdom,[2] becoming the first Indian film to enter the top 10 in the United Kingdom box office charts,[6] and it was also a hit in Japan.[7]

At the

Best Actress (Koirala) and Best Supporting Actress (Zinta), and won 6 awards, including Best Female Debut (Zinta) and Best Music Director (Rahman). At the 46th National Film Awards, the film won two awards – Best Cinematography and Best Audiography, while also receiving a Netpac Award at the 49th Berlinale.[6][8]

Plot

Amarkant Varma is a program executive for All India Radio, dispatched from New Delhi to cover festivities in Assam. On his way there, during a rainy night, Amar is stranded for hours at Haflong railway station to catch the Barak Valley Express. As he waits, he tries to have a smoke and asks a mysterious person for either a match or a lighter. Suddenly a strong gust of wind blows off the person's shawl, revealing a beautiful woman. Amar approaches, tells her she's beautiful, and tries to strike up a conversation. She ignores him. He persists and she eventually asks him for a cup of tea. When he returns with the tea, he watches as she boards the next train with three male passengers and rides off into the distance.

Amar reaches his destination and spots the same woman in

Liberationists do not wish to enter into any dialogue with the government, and justifies their resistance in Northeast India
.

Some time later, Amar describes his encounter with the woman, over the radio, which she hears. He again spots her at a post office in Silchar. At this juncture, she tells him to leave her alone; but he follows her and tells her that he is in love with her. She resists and tells Amar that she is married. Amar decides to apologize to her, but she arrives with two men who beat him unconscious.

During the beating, Amar learns that the men are presumably her brothers and that she had lied about her being married. He rejoices in this discovery, despite being badly bruised and bloody. He reaches her home and learns from the locals that she has left. Amar then goes to the post office where he initially spotted her and bribes the PCO owner into giving him her contact details and learns that she is telephoning to

Indian military
. Amar spots the woman again. As the woman and Amar board a bus, military officers question each passenger before the bus is allowed to leave. Amar tells the officers that he is reporting on the festival, and the woman falsely tells the officers that she is travelling with Amar.

After some travel, the bus breaks down and the passengers are required to walk to a nearby village. En route, the woman reveals her name: Meghna. Amar continues to pursue Meghna, despite her protestations. Meghna tells Amar that her destiny prevents her from being with him. She reveals a traumatic personal history and lets slip that if they were to be together, she would want eight children. Her ambivalence and their mutual attraction is depicted by a daydream dance scene in the desert. The two end up travelling together and recuperate near one another in the desert overnight. In the morning, Amar wakes to find Meghna gone.

Heartbroken, Amar returns to his home in Delhi, where his family introduces him to Preeti Nair from Kerala as a potential bride for him. Preeti confides that she was recently rejected in love and gets Amar to reveal that he was also just dumped. On their date, Amar spots one of Meghna's associates, Kim, who bashed him earlier. Amar chases him down to Connaught Place, where he loses track of the man. Unbeknownst to Amar, the man kills himself with a cyanide pill after being stopped by local police. Because of the extremist nature of the situation, the police relinquish the incident to the CBI. Back at home, Amar agrees to marry Preeti and wedding preparations promptly begin. Much to Amar's surprise, Meghna shows up at his engagement party and asks Amar for a place to stay and help getting a job at Amar's All India Radio office, which he does.

Amar continues to pine for Meghna, not knowing she arrived in Delhi as part of a

Liberationists group which has planned multiple suicide attacks in New Delhi at the upcoming 50th Delhi Republic Day parade. She stays in Amar's residence to escape from the CBI
inquiry operation. At one point, Meghna expresses misgivings about her plans to kill innocent civilians. She is scolded by a member of her group and reminded of her duty to their cause.

Based on an eyewitness identification of the Connaught Place incident, Amar is now a prime suspect of the CBI. He is questioned by police and pieces together that Meghna is involved in something dangerous. Amar finds Meghna and questions her motives. She finally reveals to Amar that her name is actually Moina, and as a child, she had been a rape victim of the army. She describes villages being burned to the ground, and family members being raped and murdered. She accuses Amar of having no understanding of her history. She says she seeks justice and liberation through her activities. Amar infers she is planning a

Indian army and the President of India during Republic Day
. While trying to grab at a cyanide necklace hanging from her neck, Amar gets arrested for harassing the woman.

In a separate scene, the CBI convinces the Army general of India to grant permission to conduct security checks of all the Army convoys and tankers participating in the parade. An associate of Moina's is privy to the government's secret security plans. Moina's associates bribe the police officers holding Amar to release him. They follow him out of the police station and assault him again. Amar fights back and renders his attacker unconscious. He then answers a call from Moina, which she had placed to his attacker's mobile phone. Amar pleads with Moina to stop all this and marry him. Moina tearfully says that it is too late and that her fate is sealed. The scene ends with the sounds of bullets, which imply Amar has been shot and killed.

But Amar returns home, beaten and bloody, only to find out from Preeti that Amar's mother is also being questioned and that Moina's location is at Sunder Nagar. Preeti asks if he has any intention of marrying her, and Amar says he's the only one who can stop Moina. Amar is arrested again and unable to convince the CBI that he is not working with the terrorists. He says he is in love with Moina and that he met her while interviewing an extremist leader. He says he wants to prevent them from perpetrating an attack. The CBI is not convinced. They sedate him for further interrogation later. Through sheer will, Amar is able to resist the sedative effects of the injection he received. He escapes from the CBI and continues his relentless pursuit of Moina.

The next day Moina is prepared for her role in a suicide attack, as an explosive device is concealed under her dress. Amar finds her. He expresses his undying love for her and his desire to be with her. He pleads with her to leave with him, so the two of them can start fresh in a new place. He asks her to say that she loves him. When she does not answer, he persists. Desperate, he asks her to at least let him die with her. He pulls her towards him, and continues to plead with her to say she loves him. She embraces him. As the two embrace one another, they cry, and the bomb carried by Moina explodes, killing them both.

In mid credits, the terrorists are shown to be caught by the CBI.

Cast

Production

Filming began in November 1997, while Shah Rukh Khan was also simultaneously shooting for Karan Johar's Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Mani Ratnam selected Manisha Koirala to play the lead role, after he was unable to get through to Kajol.[9][10] Preity Zinta was chosen to play a supporting role.[11] Raveena Tandon was approached by the team to appear in the "Chaiyya Chaiyya" song, but turned down the offer citing her disinterest in featuring as a part of an item number.[12]

Periyar Lake in Kerala.[14] Several action sequences in the film choreographed by Allan Amin were shot near Connaught Place, New Delhi, Rajpath and Old Delhi.[2][14]

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 attraction, infatuation, love, reverence, worship, obsession, and death. The character played by Shahrukh Khan passes through each shade during the course of the film.[15] 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".[16]

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.[17] Dil Se is described as a film "structured through deferment and unfulfilled teasing promises".[18] 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."[19]

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.[18] 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.[18] The theme of the movie was reported to be paying homage to the 1981 British film The French Lieutenant's Woman.[20]

Release

Dil Se released on 21 August 1998. Though the film was shot mainly in Hindi-language, director Mani Ratnam also dubbed and released the film in Tamil and Malayalam in the title Uyire.. (transl. Life (given in a romantic context)) which became very popular among Tamil-audience with its songs and in Telugu with the title Prematho (transl. With love).[21][22][23] Shah Rukh Khan's Tamil dialogues were dubbed by Arvind Swamy in the film.[24]

Reception

Critical reception and box office

Filmfare Award nominations, with Zinta winning the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut
.

Though Dil Se received an average box office response in

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.[25][26]

The film became the first Indian film to enter the top 10 in the United Kingdom box office charts.[6] Even months after its release in September 1998, the film was still screened on five screens, five times per day with an average of 3,000 spectators across all screens in the Cineworld complex in Feltham, West London.[25] Deepa Deosthalee wrote a positive review to the film, calling it "a picture-perfect ode to love" and praising the direction, writing and performances.[27] Khalid Mohamed found the film disappointing, noting it "fine performances, technique and music" but panning its lack "of that crucial element called a story".[28] 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."[29] The film was included in Time's "Best of Bollywood" list in 2010.[30] Dil Se was also a hit in Japan.[7]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Recipients and Nominees Results
1999 49th Berlinale Netpac Award Mani Ratnam Won
46th National Film Awards Best Cinematography Santosh Sivan Won
Best Audiography H. Sridhar
44th Filmfare Awards Best Female Debut Preity Zinta Won
Best Music Director A. R. Rahman
Best Lyricist
Gulzar for "Chaiyya Chaiyya
"
Best Male Playback Singer Sukhwinder Singh for "Chaiyya Chaiyya"
Best Cinematography Santosh Sivan
Best Choreography
 Farah Khan for "Chaiyya Chaiyya"
Best Actress
 Manisha Koirala Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Preity Zinta
Best Lyricist
 Gulzar for "Ae Ajnabi"
Best Female Playback Singer Sapna Awasthi for "Chaiyya Chaiyya"
Screen Awards Best Male Playback Singer Sukhwinder Singh for "Chaiyya Chaiyya" Won

Soundtrack

Dil Se...
A.R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman chronology
Jeans

(1998) 		Dil Se...
(1998) 		Earth
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Planet Bollywood[32]
All Music[33]

The soundtrack features six songs composed by

Rediff called it, "Rahman's finest soundtrack, by far."[19] The soundtrack album sold six million units in India.[5] The song "Chaiyya Chaiyya", based on Sufi music (lyrics based on the Sufi folk song, "Thaiyya Thaiyya" by Bulleh Shah) and Urdu poetry,[34] became especially popular and the song has been featured in the film Inside Man (2006), in the musical Bombay Dreams, and in the television shows Smith and CSI: Miami.[35] The soundtrack was recorded in several other languages. The song "Dil Se Re" is set in the raga Nattai/Jog, whereas "Ae Ajnabi" is set in the raga Patdeep
.

Malayalam lines for the song "Jiya Jale" was written by lyricist

Gireesh Puthenchery
.

The bass guitarist Guy Pratt, who played on post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd albums Delicate Sound of Thunder, The Division Bell and Pulse played bass on title song "Dil Se Re".[36]

Original version

Hindi (Dil Se..)

All lyrics are written by

Kavita Krishnamurthy7:254."Ae Ajnabi"Udit Narayan & Mahalakshmi Iyer5:485."Jiya Jale"Lata Mangeshkar, M. G. Sreekumar & Chorus5:076."Thayya Thayya (Reprise of Chaiyya Chaiyya)"Sukhwinder Singh
4:35
Album Credits
  • Producer: India Talkies (Bharat Shah)
  • Director: Mani Ratnam
  • Lyrics: Gulzar

Musicians

Harmony

  • Ganga, Kanchana, Febi, Seji, Anto, Chandran, Shreenivas, Noell James
References/External links

Dubbed versions

Tamil (Uyire)

All lyrics are written by

Sujatha
7:26

Telugu (Premato)

All lyrics are written by

Sujatha
5:42

Background score

Dil Se...
A.R. Rahman

Hindi (Dil Se..)

Track List :

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Pokhi Pokhi Bidekhi"Zubeen Garg01:35

Tamil (Uyire)

Track List :

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Pokhi Pokhi Bidekhi"Zubeen Garg01:35

Malayalam (Uyire)

Track List :

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Pokhi Pokhi Bidekhi"Zubeen Garg01:35

Telugu (Premato)

Track List :

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Pokhi Pokhi Bidekhi"Zubeen Garg01:35

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