Customer Reviews

Dil Chahta Hai

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15 minutes into the movie I was not certain I would like it. But the story grew on me and before I knew it, the entire 185 minutes had gone by and I felt nicely entertained. I confess I did not particularly care for the music. So I took it for what it was ... film music ... which did not distract from the picture. The dance scenes were good. This is definitely one of the better Bollywood "Comedies of Errors". Camera work, locations, colours, editing, all very appealing. The acting is believable. Plenty of glycerine tears, of course. Nice to see Dimple Kapadia again. Pleased to notice that under all the entertaining surface subjects like arranged marriage, divorced and thus unsuitable women, alcohol abuse, family values and traditions were touched upon. Overall: light, pleasant comedy which turns profound in the 2nd half. Enjoy!!! Dil Chahta Hai and Dil Chahta Hai

I had trouble getting into the first half. It was very low key. The person I was watching with abandoned it early as too boring. But then, as often happens with Indian movies, the second half changed pace, tone and depth and I started to really care about the characters and got hooked.
The actors are a solid bunch and brought their roles off well. Aamir Khan unfortunately did 'annoying jerk' a bit too well early on and was irritating as a character. Fortunately he later became quite likeable. Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta always seems to be good and were here too. Akshaye Khanna is also in it but I wasn't sure about him as sensitive artist. He looked more depressed than sensitive and I've liked other stuff he's done better - but he is still fine.
I did end up liking and downloading 3 songs in the movie - which is not a bad rate for a Bollywood I think.
Apart from this I agree with all the positive comments of a former reviewer titled 'Love at Last'.
It was hard to know what to rate it. The first half I would have given perhaps a 2 but it built to a 4 in the second half so I took the 2nd half as my measure. This is one I will hold onto and revisit.

It's in great condition and I love it. It came with some old movie wrapped in hindi newspaper, but it had no subtitles so I couldn't watch it. I assumed it was like a free gift for purchasing the DVD. Anyway the movie is great!