4 min learnMumbaiAug 11, 2026 04:09 PM IST
Twenty-five years in the past, a generation found itself in Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai. With its contemporary aesthetic, sharp writing and distinctive visible language, the movie not solely modified the panorama of Hindi cinema but in addition supplied a brand new method of grownup relationships. As Dil Chahta Hai accomplished 25 years, Farhan opened up about what he may need executed in another way if he have been directing the movie at the moment. In a dialog with The Hollywood Reporter India, the filmmaker admitted that there are particular moments he now views in another way with the advantage of time.
‘Much less drama on the Preity’s marriage ceremony’
“Now sufficient time has handed for me to consider one factor that I’d change, or possibly two, truly, that I’d do in another way. One is, I’d most likely resolve the Aamir and Preity’s relationship barely in another way from how I did. I really feel that the drama of that second is efficient, in fact, within the movie, however I really feel possibly the drama was slightly bit overplayed in the way in which I constructed it, utterly as a director. I really feel I constructed it slightly bit away from the drama of the remainder of the movie. So, for me, it stands out slightly bit, the marriage scene. So possibly I’d do this slightly bit in another way, when it comes to not pitching it so excessive on drama, like the way in which it was.”
‘I’d have left Sid alone on the finish’
Farhan additionally feels he might have been higher off leaving Sid, performed by Akshaye Khanna, with out the suggestion of a romantic decision. Within the ultimate moments of the movie, Sid, after transferring on from the passing of Tara (Dimple Kapadia) is proven with one other lady. Trying again, Farhan feels the character didn’t essentially want that trace of a standard completely happy ending. “I feel I’d have left Sid alone on the finish. I feel that giving that little hope of a contented ending for his life, he was completely happy regardless, which I take into consideration now, then possibly he didn’t must see one lady on the finish and suppose that there’s, you understand, possibly there’s some pot of gold on the finish of this rainbow for him.”
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Sonali Kulkarni on Dil Chahta Hai
Just lately, in an exclusive conversation with SCREEN, Sonali Kulkarni, who performed Sameer’s (Saif Ali Khan) love curiosity Pooja within the movie, additionally regarded again at her expertise of being a part of Dil Chahta Hai. Sonali was forged by Farhan’s sister Zoya Akhtar, who additionally served because the movie’s casting director. “I interacted with Zoya first as a result of she’d seen some picture of mine. She stored combating with the one who confirmed her the picture, ‘This isn’t Sonali. I’ve seen her in arthouse cinema, and she or he doesn’t appear like this.’ It was a typical picture shoot. She linked with me and requested me to audition. We laughed a lot whereas canning the audition. Zoya was giving me the cues, and we improvised. I cherished the vibe.”
For Sonali, nonetheless, what stood out concerning the movie was not simply its model or the dimensions of what Farhan was trying as a first-time director. It was the environment on the set and the individuals who created it. “Folks mattered quite a bit on Dil Chahta Hai set. What I keep in mind about Farhan and Ritesh (Sidhwani, co-producer) is their friendship. They’re real pals, who don’t speak about how thick they’re.”
