• Awards
  • 29 wins & 43 nominations
• Shalini
• (as Preity Zinta)

Did you know

• TriviaFarhan Akhtar originally wrote the movie by casting Akshaye Khanna as Akash, Hrithik Roshan as Siddhart and Saif Ali Khan as Sameer. When Hrithik Roshan turned the role down, it went to Abhishek Bachchan. After Abhishek’s exit, Farhan approached Aamir Khan who was going though a lean phase at the time. Aamir Khan insisted on playing Akash and Akshaye Khanna graciously agreed to swap roles.
• GoofsWhen the guys are talking on the fortress ruins in Goa Sid refers to a ship that he is watching about to go over the horizon. The clip clearly shows a ship which is moving toward them, not away.
• Quotes Siddharth Sinha: Deepa, why do you like Akash so much? Deepa: What do you mean? Siddharth Sinha: [after a brief pause] Sometimes I think why we like someone. Why do you like him? Deepa: I don’t know. I just do. Siddharth Sinha: Despite knowing that Akash… Deepa: … doesn’t love me? Yes, even then. Siddharth Sinha: Deepa, you’re beautiful, intelligent. You can get so many guys. Deepa: [saying in between] If I’m so beautiful then why can’t I get Akash? Siddharth Sinha: I don’t know. Yes, I know that if you’re in any trouble, then Akash can do all he can for you. But Deepa, you should not hope for such things which… [Sid stops and takes some sand] Siddharth Sinha: Now you see this sand? The more you try to hold it tightly, the more it slip through your fingers. Deepa: [understanding Sid] Thanks, Sid.
• Crazy creditsThe closing credits roll while the last scene featuring the cast eating still continues.
• SoundtracksDil Chahta HaiMusic by Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani & Loy MendonsaLyrics by Javed AkhtarPerformed by Shankar Mahadevan

Another thing that you might notice while watching the film is that there is not much of a plot. It just… floats along. But that’s what makes it great; you never know where the next scene might lead you. What ties the story together is the bond of friendship shared by the three main leads. All the performances were terrific, especially Aamir Khan, who is probably the most respected actor of his generation.

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Farhan AkhtarDirectorAamir KhanAkash MalhotraSaif Ali KhanSameerAkshaye KhannaSiddharth SinhaPreity ZintaShaliniSonali KulkarniPooja

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• Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them – until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.
• Three young men Akash, Sameer, and Siddharth are close friends, but their tastes and characters are completely incompatible. So when Siddharth falls in love with a much older woman, Tara, a woman who has been unsuccessful in keeping her marriage intact as well as alcohol-dependent, widens the rift between the trio, forcing them to part company. Years later, the trio will be re-united, they will be much mature and understanding, but will they still accept Siddharth love for Tara, especially when they themselves have fallen in love with women around their respective ages?—Sonia
• ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ is the story of three friends – Akash is fun-loving, non-believer in love. Sameer is always “ready” for love-but does not know its true meaning. Siddharth is the more serious of the trio. He is sensitive, understanding, caring … in short the perfect man for any girl. He falls in love with a middle-aged, slightly alcoholic divorcée Tara Jaiswal. Akash cannot understand this relationship and when he insults Siddharth’s true love, Siddharth slaps him. This causes a rift between both and they go their separate ways. Subsequently Akash too realizes the meaning of true love when the vivacious, bubbly Shalini comes in his life. Same happens with Sameer when he meets Pooja. So finally we get to see how these boys become men.—Soumitra
• Three young men name Akash, Sameer, and Siddharth are close friends, but their tastes and characters are completely incompatible. Akash is fun-loving, non-believer in love. Sameer is always “ready” for love-but does not know its true meaning. Siddharth is the more serious of the trio. He is sensitive, understanding, caring – in short the perfect man for any girl. So when Siddharth falls in love with a much older woman, Tara, a woman who has been unsuccessful in keeping her marriage intact as well as alcohol-dependent, widens the rift between the trio, forcing them to part company. Years later, the trio will be re-united, they will be much mature and understanding, but will they still accept Siddharth love for Tara, especially when they themselves have fallen in love with women around their respective ages? They all believe that they are mature men now and must think maturely.—gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com
• The film is about three distinct characters, Akash, Sameer and Siddharth, their individual relationships and the effect that these relationships have on them. Love. One term that can hold different meanings even for close friends like Akash, Sameer and Siddharth. Welcome to a summer of their lives. So you have Akash, who has been sent by his parents to live in Sydney, he does not believe in the concept of love. Two weeks is all that he is willing to give a perfectly healthy relationship. Incidentally, he feels even two weeks is a bit too much! Sameer, like a lot of us, is in love with the idea of being in love. He wants to be in love. But Sameer has not quite understood the concept yet and tends to wear his heart on his sleeve. So this young man is looking for the perfect woman in his life… The most mature, sensitive and understanding of these three is Siddharth. Sid, as he is fondly called, seems to know the true meaning of life. According to his friends, neighbors and even the dogs, Siddharth knows it all. The women who come and change their lives are Shalini and Tara Jaiswal.—Anonymous
• Akash (Aamir Khan) does not believe in love, so he does not keep girlfriends for more than two weeks. Sameer (Saif Ali Khan) is a genial, well-meaning, desperately romantic but confused guy who is prone to romantic infatuations and believes to have found true love whenever he gets attracted to a girl. Siddharth (Akshaye Khanna), or Sid, an artist by profession and the most mature of the three, is not interested in trivial romances and is dedicated to his work.Akash, who 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, craftily engineers a breakup between Sameer and his girlfriend. He then plans a vacation trip to the beaches of Goa.Sameer predictably “falls in love” in Goa with a pretty Swiss girl, a story that ends in disaster. He returns home to find that his parents have arranged a meeting with a potential marriage prospect. He resists at first 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 be content with just being her friend.Sid, in the meantime, befriends and eventually falls in love with Tara (Dimple Kapadia), an older divorcee and alcoholic, who had moved into a nearby house and shares his love for art. He decides to keep it from her, suppressing all hopes of a relationship as he knows that she, like most other people in society, would consider this scandalous. When his family and friends start finding out, everything goes wrong. Sid’s mother is horrified and wrongly accuses Tara of having led Sid on. Akash makes fun of Sid’s true intentions and his offensive remarks create a rift in their friendship. 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, on the other hand, is also experiencing romantic upheaval. His parents send him to Sydney, Australia to work for the family business. On the flight, he meets Shalini again. He apologizes 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 tries to find out how he feels, but he holds back. She then leaves for India to marry Rohit, her fiance. Akash lets her go, then realizes that he can’t live without her and returns to India to win her back. He proposes to her a day before her wedding and she accepts with the blessing of Rohit’s parents. Rohit tries to resist but is helpless with his parents’ decision and Shalini’s true love for Akash.Meanwhile, Sameer and Pooja start going out after she breaks up with her boyfriend, and Sameer plans on proposing marriage soon. Tara is hospitalized with liver cirrhosis and dies with Sid at her bedside. Sid and Akash reconcile (with a little help from Sameer) and two years after their first Goa trip, the three friends regroup in Goa where Sid meets a girl. They share a smile and Sid realizes that life goes on.

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