Dil Se.. (1998) on Netflix
Amarkant Varma, a program executive for All India Radio, meets a mysterious woman during an assignment in Assam. She denies knowing him, then claims she is married.
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Plot summary
Amarkant Varma works for All India Radio in New Delhi and is sent to Assam to collect local opinion ahead of the fiftieth anniversary of Indian independence. Rain strands him at Haflong station, where a silent woman asks for tea and then boards a departing train with three men. In Silchar he meets her again; she denies remembering him, and when he tells her he loves her, she says she is married. Two men beat him in an ambush she leads him into, and he learns she had lied and has moved away. Her long-distance calls point to Ladakh, so he travels to Leh and finds her on a bus. During a trek she gives her name as Meghna, and she vanishes the next morning. Back in Delhi, his family has arranged a match with Preeti Nair.
Cast
- Gautam Boraas Terrorist Leader
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dil Se.. (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- For the song "Chaiyya Chaiyya", Shah Rukh Khan and Malaika Arora were shot on top of the Nilgiri Express between Ooty, Coonoor and Kotagiri, and the train was specially painted brown for the sequence.
- Dil Se.. became the first Indian film to enter the top 10 of the United Kingdom box office charts.
- The song "Chaiyya Chaiyya", whose lyrics draw on Bulleh Shah's Sufi folk song "Thaiyya Thaiyya", became popular beyond the film and was used in the film Inside Man (2006) and in the musical Bombay Dreams.
- Mani Ratnam cast Manisha Koirala as the female lead of Dil Se.. only after he was unable to get through to Kajol.
- Raveena Tandon was approached to appear in the song "Chaiyya Chaiyya" but turned the offer down, saying she had no interest in featuring in an item number.
