Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) on Netflix
Rahul runs a dance troupe with Nisha, who loves him in secret. He plans a musical about a girl waiting for her true love. Pooja, a dancer, keeps crossing his path.
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Plot summary
Rahul and Nisha are members of a Mumbai dance troupe that stages musical plays. Nisha is in love with him, though to everyone else they are only friends. Rahul wants to direct a new musical called Maya, about a girl who believes true love will find her and waits for the man she is certain will come. Nisha is cast as Maya. Pooja, who lost her parents as a child and was raised by family friends, is a classically trained dancer who is passionate about dancing. She and Rahul pass near each other again and again, and each time a tune plays that stays with her. Ajay, the son of the family that raised her and her friend since childhood, works in London. He takes her to Germany and, before flying back, asks her to marry him.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dil To Pagal Hai (1997)
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- Casting Nisha was so hard that Manisha Koirala declined and later regretted it, while Juhi Chawla refused the part, unwilling to play second fiddle to Madhuri Dixit after starring in Chopra's Darr (1993).
- Sridevi was offered the role of Pooja but turned it down because she found it less substantial than her part in Lamhe; the role then went to Madhuri Dixit.
- Urmila Matondkar, who had worked with Shah Rukh Khan in Chamatkar (1992), accepted the role of Nisha but dropped out after a single day of shooting; Karisma Kapoor was finally signed.
- Jackie Shroff was the first choice to play Ajay, but Yash Chopra wanted a much younger actor and signed Akshay Kumar instead; Kumar was reportedly not paid for the role.
- Dil To Pagal Hai was the first Bollywood film to be shot in Baden-Baden and Europa Park, both popular German tourist attractions.
- Yash Chopra rejected all 54 dresses Manish Malhotra created for Madhuri Dixit's character and chose a salwar kameez instead.
- In 2008, eleven years after the film, Yash Chopra put out an unreleased song from its soundtrack, "Kitni Hai Bekarar Yeh", sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Kumar Sanu.
