• Friday, August 21, 1998

• Country:

  India

• Language:

  Hindi

• Runtime:

  163 min

1998

Amarkanth Varma is employed with All India Radio as a reporter who is dispatched to cover festivities in the northeastern part of India. While waiting for a train at a remote and isolated railway station, he comes across an attractive young woman who refuses to help him dil se. Both meet again, and this time she asks him to leave her alone because she says that she is married. Thereafter, her relatives severely beat up Amarkanth.

He finds out during the beating that, in fact, she is unmarried. On his recovery he is unable to get her out of his mind. They meet again, and this time she identifies herself as his wife, even tells him to call her dil se, and both become fairly intimate on a bus journey. Then the next day she vanishes. His search for her is in vain. Heartbroken and under pressure from his family, he agrees to marry a woman named Preeti Nair.

On the day of his engagement to Preeti, Meghna shows up at his house and asks him to let her and a friend stay there for a few days. Amarkanth's family readily agrees, not knowing that dil se time Meghna has come with a private and deadly agenda of her own that will shake the very roots of the Varma family and India as a whole.

Trivias

• Some of the parade scenes were shot during the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of India's independence.
• For the song "Jiya Jale, Jaan Chale," singer Lata Mangeshkar had some problems singing in the higher octaves due to her age, so composer A.R. Rahman kept her voice as low as possible.
• Shahrukh Khan did not use a safety harness while the filming dil se sequence aboard the moving train for the song "Chal Chaiyya Chaiyya."
• Preity Zinta's dil se movie debut.
• The film dil se first song, "Chal Chaiyya Chaiyya", is also the opening song of the Hollywood movie Inside Man (2006) starring Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.

Awards

1. Netpac Award - Special Mention
   Event: Berlin International Film Festival
   Result: Won
   Category:
   Recipient(s): Mani Ratnam
2. Filmfare Award
   Event: Filmfare Award
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Best Supporting Actress
   Recipient(s): Preity Zinta
3. Filmfare Award
   Event: Filmfare Award
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Best Actress
   Recipient(s): Manisha Koirala
4. Filmfare Awards
   Event: Filmfare Awards
   Result: Won
   Category: Best Music Director
   Recipient(s): A.R. Rahman
5. Filmfare Awards
   Event: Filmfare Awards
   Result: Won
   Category: Best Choreography
   Recipient(s): Farah Khan