Dil Se
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Directed by	Mani Ratnam
Produced by	Bharat Shah Mani Ratnam Ram Gopal Varma Shekhar Kapur
Written by	Tigmanshu Dhulia Mani Ratnam Sujatha
Starring	Shahrukh Khan Manisha Koirala Preity Zinta
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Cinematography	Santosh Sivan
Editing by	Suresh Urs
Distributed by	Madras Talkies Eros International
Release date(s)	21 August 1998
Running time	158 mins
Country	‹See Tfd› India
Language	Hindi
Budget	12 crore (US$2.39 million)[1]
Box office	17.5 crore (US$3.49 million)[2] (All India Gross)

Dil Se (Hindi: दिल से, translation: From the Heart) is a 1998 Hindi film directed by Mani Ratnam. The film stars Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, and Preity Zinta. Mani Ratnam also co-wrote the screenplay for the film. It is the third in Ratnam's trilogy of terror films that depict human relationships against a background of Indian politics, after Roja and Bombay.^[3][4]

Dil Se was shot in Himachal, Kashmir, Assam, Delhi, Kerala, and other parts of India and Bhutan over a period of 55 days. The film is considered an example of Indian Parallel Cinema. The highly stylized film won awards for cinematography, audiography, choreography, and music, among others. Despite being a failure at the Indian box office, the film was a success overseas earning $975,000 (USA) and £537,930 in the UK,^[5] becoming the first Indian film to enter the top 10 in the United Kingdom box office charts.^[6][7]

Plot[link]

Amarkant "Amar" Varma (Shahrukh Khan), an All-India Radio program executive living in Delhi, India, is dispatched to the troubled North-Eastern region of India to report from there on the situation pertaining to the approaching 50th Anniversary of Indian independence. There, he interviews a terrorist leader on his group's motivation and ethics. He then comes across Meghna (Manisha Koirala) at a railway station and chats up with her. He excuses himself for a while, offering to get her a cup of tea, only to find her gone already on a train with three mysterious men. A few weeks after that meeting, he spots her again in a street and confronts her, but she resists and pretends not to recognise him. Amar then resorts to stalking and seeks her our near her place of dwelling and tells her he loves her "dil se" (English equivalent: from the heart). To discourage him, Meghna tells him that she is married, and leaves. Amar feels embarrassed for flirting with a married woman, and sincerely wishes to apologize to her. He arranges a meeting with her to do so, but she brings two mysterious men with her, who subsequently take Amar away and beat him. This harsh experience invigorates Amar to find Meghna again. After somehow finding out her plans to visit Ladakh, he follows her with the convenient excuse of reporting on the local festivities and she gives him the slip there too.

As Amar heads home, he finds her on the same bus. He starts flirting with her and mocking her for having her supposed husbands beat him up. Then a security guard intercepts them and asks Amar his purpose for visiting Ladakh, and Amar tells him he was reporting on the festivities there. When it is Meghna's turn to answer, she tells him that she and Amar are together. The bus breaks down and the passengers are forced to walk a two-day journey to their destination. Amar nearly loses Meghna again but manages to get hold of her and confronts her, angered about the fact she had used him, before proceeding to accuse her of being a morally loose tease. She tells him her name and that the two men who beat him up were her brothers. Amar tries to aggressively force himself up on Meghna, which causes her a painful anxiety attack.

During the pair's two day walk they have a whirlwind adventure through the desert. Though the two fall for each other, Meghna slips away and leaves Amar to return to the safety of Delhi alone. Upon his return, he finds that his family wants him to meet Preeti Nair (Preity Zinta), a potential bride. Amar and Preeti both agree to get married. Then Meghna shows up in Delhi out of nowhere at Amar's house, on the day he is to be engaged to Preeti, and asks for a place to stay. Amar and his family let her stay at their house, and Amar arranges for a job for her at the radio station.

It is later revealed that Meghna is a member of the terrorist/revolutionist group who are in to Delhi to assassinate the President on the Republic Day parade. Amar finds out about the plan and confronts her, when she escapes. Amar continues to pursue her, despite getting arrested by the police and getting beaten up repeatedly by her men. In the end, he finds Meghna and pleads her to not carry out the attack. She warns him to stay away from her, as she is afraid that he might activate the bomb in her vest. He then whispers in her ear, "If you won't come with me, take me with you." Meghna's intense inner struggle subsides; she embraces Amar and the bomb gets detonated, killing them both.

Cast[link]

• Shahrukh Khan as Amarkant "Amar" Varma
• Manisha Koirala as Meghna
• Preity Zinta as Preeti Nair
• Raghuvir Yadav as Shukla
• Zohra Sehgal as Grandmother
• Arundathi Nag
• Sabyasachi Chakravarthy
• Piyush Mishra as CBI investigation officer
• Aditya Srivastava
• Krishnakanth
• Ken Philip
• Sanjay Mishra
• Mita Vasisht as Mita
• Malaika Arora as dancer on train
• Gajraj Rao as CBI investigation officer

Themes[link]

Dil Se is said to be a journey through the 7 shades of love that are defined in ancient Arabic literature. Those shades are defined as attraction, infatuation, love, reverence, worship, obsession, and death. The character played by Shahrukh Khan passes through each shade during the course of the film.^[8]

The film is a dramatisation of the attraction between a character from the heart of India and another from a peripheral state and a representation of opposites in the eyes of the law and society.^[9] Dil Se is described as a film "structured through deferment and unfulfilled teasing promises." ^[10] Rediff.com said about the film, "The entire feel of the film is appropriately poetic, with a few romantic exchanges standing out quite memorably. Tigmanshu Dhulia has handled the film's dialogues adroitly. Amid moonlit desert dunes, there is a particularly stirring conversation between the leading pair. In a somewhat big-bad-wolf-ian moment, Amar reveals his love for Meghna's eyes -- because he can't see the world hidden behind them, and his hate for the same, stunning eyes -- because he can't see the world hidden behind them."^[11]

Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton in their book Terror and the postcolonial (2009) believe that the songs and their exotic locations in the film were very important in masking the impossible reconciliation between a terrorist and an uptight government agent by evoking pure fantasy.^[10] They argue that this is a phenomenon called the "liminal space of dreaming" in that the terrorist woman cannot fulfil her heterosexual desire so the songs fill the void of this desire by "their sumptuousness and exotic locales" in the Ladakh region.^[10]

Release and reception[link]

Dil Se was screened at the Era New Horizons Film Festival and the Helsinki International Film Festival The film went on to win the Netpac Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, two National Film Awards, and six Filmfare Awards. The film was a box office flop in India.^[2] The intense political agenda of the film with the trials of the Assamese on the India-China border, the love story and the fact that it coincided with the 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations were cited for its failure at the time.^[12] Interestingly, however, it became a major success overseas, particularly amongst the South Asian diaspora in the west.^[13] It became the first Indian film to enter the top 10 in the United Kingdom box office charts.^[6] Even two months after its release in September 1998 the film was still screened on five screens, five times per day with an average of 3000 spectators a day for each screen alone in the 14-screen Cineworld complex in Feltham, West London.^[12]

Deepa Deosthalee wrote a positive review to the film, calling it "A picture perfect ode to love" and praising the direction, writing and performances.^[14]

Awards[link]

The film has won the following awards:

1999 Berlin International Film Festival (Germany)

• Netpac Award - Special Mention - Mani Ratnam

1999 National Film Awards (India)

• Silver Lotus Award - Cinematography - Santosh Sivan
• Silver Lotus Award - Best Audiography - H. Sridhar

1999 Filmfare Awards (India)

• Best Female Debut - Preity Zinta
• Best Music Director - A. R. Rahman
• Best Lyricist - Gulzar for "Chaiyya Chaiyya"
• Best Male Playback - Sukhwinder Singh for "Chaiyya Chaiyya"
• Best Cinematographer - Santosh Sivan
• Best Choreography - Farah Khan for "Chaiyya Chaiyya"

1999 Star Screen Awards (India)

• Best Male Playback - Sukhwinder Singh for "Chaiyya Chaiyya"

Soundtrack[link]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Planet Bollywood	[15]
All Music	[16]

The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by A. R. Rahman. Raja Sen of Rediff called it, "Rahman's finest soundtrack, by far."^[11] The song "Chaiyya Chaiyya" became especially popular, and was featured as one of the top 10 songs of all-time in an international poll conducted by BBC World Service.^[17] The song has been featured in the film Inside Man, in the musical Bombay Dreams, and in the television shows Smith and CSI: Miami.^[18]

The soundtrack was recorded in several other languages. The Tamil version of the track "Chaiyya Chaiyya", entitled "Thaiyya Thaiyya", was sung by Palghat Sriram, although Sukhwinder Singh, who sang the Hindi version was credited as the singer.^[19] Malayalam lyrics for the song "Jiya Jale" were penned by Gireesh Puthenchery while the Punjabi part of "Thayya Thayya" was penned by Tejpaul Kour.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Hindi (Dil Se)

The lyrics are by Gulzar.

[edit] Tamil (Uyire)

The lyrics are by Vairamuthu.

[edit] Telugu (Prematho)

The lyrics are by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Dil Se at the Internet Movie Database

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Udit Narayan Jha, popularly known as Udit Narayan is a playback singer in commercial, Maithili language, Hindi, Kannada, Nepali, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Garhwali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Oriya, Assamese, Maithili and Bengali language cinema. Narayan has sung in 32 different languages.^[1] He has won three National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards. In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Career[link]

Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December 1955 in a village called Bhardaha in the Saptari district, Nepal.^[2] His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.

Narayan studied at P.B. School, Rajbiraj, where he passed his S.L.C.(class 10) and later obtained his intermediate from Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus, mostly known as RR campus Kathmandu.

Udit Narayan began his career in Nepal singing for Radio Nepal as a staff artiste for Maithili and Nepali folk songs. He sang many popular nepali folk, modern songs in Radio Nepal. His first filmy playback singing was for Nepali film Sindur.It was a comedy song for famous nepali comedians (Late) GopalRaj Mainali (Chankhe) and Basundhara Bhushal (Nakkali). It was a duet song with Sushmaa Shrestha now known as Poornima in Hindi film Industry. After eight years in that role, Indian Embassy offered him the chance to study classical music at a prestigious school in Bombay, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan on a music scholarship. He moved to Bombay in 1978.

He got his first break in 1980, when noted music director (composer) Rajesh Roshan asked him to playback for the Hindi film Unees Bees, and was given the opportunity to sing with the veteran Mohammed Rafi. He later provided playback for a number of films, the most notable being Sannata (1981), Bade Dil Wala (1983) and Tan-Badan (1986). The actual success story of his career began in 1988 when Anand-Milind gave him the oppportunity to sing all the songs for the successful Bollywood movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, earning him a Filmfare Award.^[3] The film also brought actor Aamir Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and playback singer Alka Yagnik to stardom. After the success of Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, he became one of the leading playback singers in the Indian film industry.

He has worked with musicians like Rahul Dev Burman, Rajesh Roshan, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, A. R. Rahman, Anand-Milind, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin Lalit, Anu Malik, Jagjit Singh, Uttam Singh, Raam Laxman, Ilayaraja, Bhupen Hazarika, Shiv-Hari, Ravindra Jain, Madan Mohan, Vishal Bhardwaj, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Himesh Reshammiya, Viju Shah, Vidyasagar, M. M. Keeravani, Ismail Darbar, Anand Raj Anand, Aadesh Shrivastava, Arun Paudwal, Pritam Chakraborty, Sajid-Wajid, Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sohail Sen, Nikhil Vinay, Sandesh Shandilya, Ram Sampath, Rahul Sharma, Daboo Malik, Sukhwinder Singh, Roop Kumar Rathod, Adnan Sami, Sanjeev Darshan, Vishal-Shekhar, Ajay-Atul, and directors like Yash Chopra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Ashutosh Gowariker and Karan Johar. Some of those films include Lagaan, Darr, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dil To Pagal Hai, Mohabbatein, Devdas, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Swades and Veer Zaara. He has also sung hit songs for actors like Aamir Khan, Sunny Deol, Akshay Kumar, Shahid Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Govinda, Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Saif Ali Khan, Bobby Deol, Hrithik Roshan and Ajay Devgan. Udit's capability as a playback singer knows no bounds, as he has been magnanimously acclaimed in every kind of melody - soulful, romantic, fast-paced and recently, even pop. Udit has an extremely versatile tone which appears to flawlessly suit every Indian hero on screen. And today, innumerable awards and accolades later, Udit Narayan possesses one of the largest arrays of hit songs in the industry.

Udit Narayan has sung many songs with Lata Mangeshkar in many successful Hindi films like Darr, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai, Mohabbatein, Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai, Hum Tum Pe Marte Hain, Veer-Zaara, Lagaan, Mujhse Dosti Karoge to name some. He has sung maximum duets with Alka Yagnik. They have sung for movies Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Raja, Akele Hum Akele Tum, Raja Hindustani, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..., One 2 Ka 4, Lagaan, Tere Naam, Kyon Ki to name a few. Udit Narayan is best known for his exceptional vocal quality and his originality. His vocal quality often compared with the Bollywood veteran singers like Kishore Kumar and Mohammad Rafi. His voice never resembled any of the old singers. Many musical biggies like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Pankaj Udhas and Anup Jalota believes that Udit Narayan is the best in his generation for his quality in voice and originality Udit Narayan has been hailed as the screen voice of Shahrukh Khan and has sung many songs for him in famous movies like Darr, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mohabbatein, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Devdas, Chalte Chalte and Swades for which he won his third National Film Award for the song "Yeh Taara Woh Taara".

At the same time, he sang in Nepalese movies, and also acted in two Nepali films Kusume Rumal and Pirati. He has worked in Nepalese films as well, in particular for composer Shambhujeet Baskota. During his early singing career, he performed songs composed by Shiva Shankar, Natikaji and Gopal Yonjan. In 2004, he released his first private Nepalese album, Upahaar, in which he also sang duets with his wife Deepa Jha. At the Hits FM Awards in 2004 he won awards in two major categories for the album, Record of the Year and Album of the Year.^{[citation needed]} Some of Narayan's other private albums are Bhajan Sangam, Bhajan Vatika, I love You, Dil Deewana, Yeh Dosti, Love is Life, Jhumka de Jhumka, Sona No Ghadulo, Dhuli Ganga, and Ma Tarini.

He was in the panel of judges of Indian Idol 3 along with music composer Anu Malik and female playback singer Alisha Chinai on Sony TV.

He was in the panel of judges on Sony TV for Waar Pariwaar, a reality show based on the bringing together of a singing gharana (family of singers). He shared judging duties with fellow playback singer Kumar Sanu and Jatin Pandit of the famous music duo Jatin-Lalit. Indian Idol 3 judge, Saregama many time special gust, X Factor, Jo Jita wo super Star special judges

Narayan has performed in many stage shows in India and abroad and is the recipient of a large number of awards. These include Screen Videocon Award, MTV Best Video Award and Pride of India Gold Award.

In 2009, Narayan was considering running as a candidate for the Padma Shri.^[2] In 2010, Udit Narayan with Madhushree sang for the English independent film "When Harry Tries to Marry"

Personal life[link]

Narayan is a resident of Mumbai.^[4] He is married and has one son. His second wife Deepa Narayan, whom he married in 1985, is a singer, and the two recorded an album together titled Dil Deewana. Their son is Aditya Narayan who is a former child actor, singer and television presenter. Aditya Narayan started his singing for child artists in Nepali film with his father before starting his singing career in Hindi movies in the 1990s and also acted in a few films.

Awards and nominations[link]

Honours[link]

• 2009: Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian honour.^[5]

• He has received Prabal Gorkha Dakshin Bahu,one of the highest honor given to the civilians traditionally given by the king and now by Nepalese president, by the late king Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev.

• Maharashtra Ratna Award from Government of Maharashtra in 2011

[edit] National Film Awards

National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer

[edit] Filmfare Awards

Filmfare Best Male Playback Award

Filmfare Best Male Playback Award (Nominated):

[edit] Star Screen Awards

Star Screen Award Best Male Playback:

[edit] Zee Cine Awards

Zee Cine Award Best Playback Singer- Male:

[edit] IIFA Awards

IIFA Best Male Playback Award:

[edit] Bollywood Movie Awards

Notable Bollywood Filmography[link]

Notable and Popular Kannada songs[link]

Year	Film	Song Name
1999	Upendra	"Mtv Subbulakshmige"
2001	Friends	"Thakadhimi"
2001	Friends	"Saavira Kanassina"
2001	Parva	"Dholu Dholu Dangura"
2001	Parva	"Sadhane Paramapada"
2001	Parva	"Antharanga Aasegala"
2001	Sundara Kanda	" Maina Maina "
2002	Appu	"Baare Baare"
2002	Appu	"Ellinda Aarambhavo"
2002	Chandu	"Saddillade"
2002	Chandu	"Kanyakumari"
2002	Thuntaata	" Kaathura "
2002	Hollywood	"Choo Bide"
2002	Hollywood	"Prema Prema"
2003	Abhi	"Sum Sumne"
2003	Abhi	"Ee Nanna Kannane"
2003	Chigurida Kanassu	"Aaha Enidenidenu"
2003	Chigurida Kanassu	"Ninna kanda kshana"
2003	Gokarna	"Aaseye dukhakke moola"
2003	Gokarna	"Jwara Illade"
2003	Kutumba	"Mujhe Kuch Kuch Hogaya"
2003	Kutumba	"Alukku Balukina"
2003	Laali Haadu	"Preethige"
2003	Malla	"Olagirod Horagidre"
2003	Nandi	"Kadalu Daati Banda"
2004	Aaptha Mitra	"Pata Pata"
2004	Kalasipalya	"Pete Pete Rap"
2004	Mourya	"Pilla Pilla"
2004	Mourya	"Haadali Karunaadali"
2004	News	"Munjaaneya"
2004	News	"Good Morning"
2004	Saahukara	" Maleyaaliya Pada "
2005	Namma Basava	"Andondittu Kaala"
2005	Kaashi from Village	"Yeh Kiccha"
2005	Kaashi from Village	"Goli Maro"
2005	Shastri	" Sum Sumne "
2005	Rishi	" Enendu Naa Helalaare "
2005	Aakash	"Habba Habba"
2005	Anna Thangi	"Dum Dum Dum Thavaralli"
2005	Auto Shankar	"Kacchi Kacchi"
2005	Ayya	"Ee Prema"
2005	Ayya	"Tabla Tabla"
2005	Chappale	"Enivaaga"
2006	Chelaata	"Pata Pata Pataaki"
2006	Chellata	"Ishtano Ishtano"
2006	Mungaru Male	"Kunidu Kunidu Baare"
2006	Hatavaadi	"Thai Thai"
2006	Kariya	"Nannali Naanilla"
2006	Ravi Shastri	"Muthu Muthu"
2006	Ravi Shastri	"Sangeetha"
2007	Krishna	"Gollara Golla"
2007	Milana	"Anthu Inthu"
2007	Ee Bandhana	"Chanda Nanna"
2007	Gaalipata	"Aaha Ee Bedaru Bombege"
2008	Dhimaku	"Huccha annu"
2008	Haage Summane	"Naanenu Nambodilla"
2008	Kamannana Makkalu	"Chee Chee"
2008	Mussanje Maathu	"O Hrudaya"
2008	Sathya In Love	" Golla Golla "
2008	Vamshi	" Maayagaathi "
2010	Chiru	"Shambho Shiva Shankara"
2010	Chiru	"Olavannu helu"
2011	Raam[disambiguation needed ]	" Nanna Thutiyalli "

Notable Tamil songs[link]

[edit] Notable Haryanvi and Telugu songs

Notable Malayalam film songs[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Udit Narayan at the Internet Movie Database