Dil Chahta Hai

I stumbled over this film on late night TV and immediately ordered the DVD. It's a corker! Fresh, invigorating, romantic, bizarre even!They don't make films like this in the West - and more's the pity but hence the freshness. The... Full review

This movie was released in the year 2001, the time when bollywood seemed to be in doldrums, producing one trash after another, the same year when another masterpiece "Lagaan" was released from bollywood and the year I finished my college... Full review

I am not a fan on Hindi movies at all, but since I decided to study in India, learn a little Hindi and whatever else, I have expanded my Hindi film repertoire from just Lagaan and Amar Prem to include... Full review

Less is more in Farhan Akhtar's 'Dil Chahta Hai'. Strip away melodramatic plots which always drag on longer than they are supposed to. Get rid of unbelievable protagonists who have all the answers and can fight off a horde of... Full review

Indian movies tend to have a reputation for (a) being musicals and (b) having overmodulated, distorted sound tracks, as if everyone was singing and playing through a guitar fuzzbox. Fuzz is fine in its place (heavy metal rock music, for... Full review

Just pitifully, we have lots and lots Hindi speaking people in town and they have been here for a very long time, still the local Chinese don't really care to know their culture, let alone watch good Indian movies. Perhaps... Full review

After a string of Bollywood stinkers, this film was a breath of fresh air! Upon first glance, it might seem like the story has been rehashed from the plotlines of several other Indian films. But the presentation blew me away!... Full review

DCH is like a breath of fresh air. It shows how bringing youth into an industry is always a good thing. Just compare this film with Yaadein, from Bollywood veteran Subash Ghai.Where as Yaadein is probably one of the worst... Full review

Before getting into the details, I must admit that this is certainly one of the best and most entertaining films I have ever seen!RATING: ****1/2 out of *****Plot ---- The story is about three very good friends and their relationships... Full review

Dil Chahta Hai Starring: Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni, Dimple Kapadia and Ayub Khan Director: Farhan Akhtar Music: Shankar-Eshan-Loy Released. Debutant director Farhan Akhtar's (son of Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani) Dil Chahta Hai... Full review

Aamir, dressed nattily for the winter, ate hungrily. I asked Aamir if it was worth it: the torture to develop muscles he never knew he had; the point of exhaustion the treadmill took him to; the sacrifice of following a strict diet; the knowledge that at the end of it all, when the action scenes were canned, he would have to give up that awesome body... ... Full Review

You hate him when the film begins....Rajat Kapoor is constantly inundated with offers.... ... Full Review

Ankur Agarwal does a short review on Rock On , a film salvaged by its music from being as detestable as Dil Chahta Hai It's surprising how Indian and Hollywood cinema is completely based on sexist fare, how people simply love such films. Rock On is less about music, or a band, or anything else, rather than just Farhan Akhtar's coming to grips with I didn't understand what, his wife stage-managing the show. ... Full Review

Ritesh laughs, "We haven't been punished for it as yet! ... Full Review

Farhan Akhtar, who once made one of Indian cinemas path breakers Dil Chahta Hai, slips into a gamine groove to recreate Salim-Javeds script from the original film of the same name. But whosoever thought a slicker version of the clever 1978 script would work better when packaged in gallons of gloss has a vision that just stops short of being audacious. ... Full Review

Model-turned-actor Lisa Haydon is all set to make her film debut. First seen on the Indian fashion runway in 2007, the leggy lass took the modelling world by storm at a young age itself. ... Full Article

Director Vijay, it seems, is not ready to wait till the release of 'Madrasapattinam' to start his next project. For that matter, not just one film, he has started simultaneously working on two movies. ... Full Article

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The sheer delight of watching Arshad Warsi play the lead, rather than the supremely self-assured sidekick, gives this otherwise-pale rom-com a cutting edge. Arshad, in his own words, plays a guy, who can see dead people. ... Full Article

"I will not be celebrating my birthday this year," Aamir told IANS over e-mail from Mumbai. Media reports said the actor will fly to New Delhi Sunday (March 14) to rub shoulders with acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron and to... ... Full Article