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While she doesn’t need an introduction, Preity Zinta truly defines what it takes to be a super hit heroine of the Hindi film industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C-8ScWuquw&feature=youtu.be A 23-year-old Preity wowed the audience with her emotive skills in her acting debut back in 1998, alongside Badshah of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala. Dil Chahta Hai https://youtu.be/OBAcYSSUf6o Despite the cult favourite …

Friendship Day 2022: Hindi songs to dedicate to your BFF today

Years have been kind to Dil Chahta Hai and it still remains one of the most revisited, comfort films of Hindi cinema. Interestingly, the song album, which is now revered across generations of listeners and for the first time incorporated different elements of world music, received a lukewarm response from labels at the time of release. I am very proud …

Dil Chahta Hai Brought Discipline and Punctuality to Commercial Hindi Cinema, Says Sonali Kulkarni

Twenty years ago, Dil Chahta Hai introduced realistic portrayal of youth to Hindi cinema and changed filmmaking forever. The unit showered me with lots of greetings and love.” Dil Chahta Hai marked Farhan Akhtar’s debut as director while Sonali had already started getting her foot in the door with some good films in the South. The best part of Dil …

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Until Dil Chahta Hai, and Lagaan for that matter, both released in 2001, much of the preceding decade’s mainstream Hindi cinema was a show-and-tell perpetrating age-old stereotypes. The year of Dil Chahta Hai was also the year of Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, a film so bloated it remains hard to believe it came to pass. In his autobiography An Unsuitable …