Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
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Directed by	Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Produced by	Sanjay Leela Bhansali Jhamu Sughand
Story by	Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring	Salman Khan Ajay Devgan Aishwarya Rai
Music by	Ismail Darbar
Cinematography	Anil Mehta
Editing by	Bela Segal
Release date(s)	June 18, 1999
Running time	188 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	17 crore (US$3.39 million)[1]
Box office	32.5 crore (US$6.48 million)[2]

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (Hindi: हम दिल दे चुके सनम) is a 1999 Bollywood film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It was released in the English-speaking world as Straight from the Heart. The film stars Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan, and Aishwarya Rai. The story is adopted from Maitreyi Devi's Bengali novel Na Hanyate, and is based on a love triangle.

It was filmed throughout the Gujarat-Rajasthan border region, in addition to Budapest, Hungary, which was used to represent Italy.

Plot[link]

Nandini (Aishwarya Rai) is the daughter of Pandit Darbar (Vikram Gokhale), renowned proponent of Indian classical music, living in the Rann of Kutch. Nandini has been brought up with more freedom and education than her siblings, as she is the most beloved of Pandit Darbar.

Into this carefree life enters Sameer (Salman Khan), a boy of Indo-Italian parentage who wants to learn Indian classical music from Pandit Darbar. Sameer stays with the Darbar family, and Nandini is asked to vacate her room to give the guest the nicest room in the manor. Nandini takes a dislike to Sameer, and the two keep playing pranks on each other, but soon realise they are in love. Their love blossoms in the Darbar household around weddings, festivals and family get-togethers.

One day the pair are caught rehearsing their wedding vows and dreaming of their future together by Pandit Darbar, who becomes furious with them. He has already planned Nandini's wedding. Sameer is kicked out of the house and asked never to contact Nandini again. Sameer does not leave India immediately. He stays in town and writes letters to Nandini asking her to join him, but his letters do not reach her in time.

Nandini's parents have arranged to get her married to Vanraj (Ajay Devgan) — who had fallen in love with Nandini during her cousin's wedding. On the wedding night, Vanraj realises that Nandini is not herself and tries to ask her why she is not responding to his love. He asks her for the truth, promising he will help her no matter what. Nandini stays quiet but is later caught reading Sameer's letters. Vanraj is very angry at first as all he had asked was the truth from her.

When he realises that his wife is in love with another man, he shows the ultimate love by taking Nandini to Italy and help her search for Sameer, to the initial dislike--but eventual approval--of his own parents.

Nandini and Vanraj arrive in Italy and start searching for Sameer but always come up against dead ends. During their search, they face many problems and dilemmas and slowly Nandini gets to see what Vanraj really is like. She sees Vanraj selflessly devoting himself to caring for her during her stay in hospital after an incident.

Eventually they get news about Sameer through his mother (played by Helen), and Vanraj arranges for Nandini to meet Sameer on the night of his debut concert. His job done, Vanraj says goodbye to Nandini and walks away. Nandini and Sameer meet, but the matured Nandini's feelings for him have changed. She reflects on the unwavering love and devotion that Vanraj showed her throughout their whole relationship, and realises that Vanraj was her true soul mate. She leaves Sameer and catches up with Vanraj.

Cast[link]

• Salman Khan as Sameer Rafilini
• Ajay Devgan as Vanraj
• Aishwarya Rai as Nandini
• Zohra Sehgal as Dadi
• Vikram Gokhale as Pundit Darbar
• Smita Jaykar as Amrita
• Rekha Rao as Kamna Pui
• Kenny Desai as Dadi
• Rajeev Varma as Vikramjeet (Vanraj's dad)
• Kanu Gill as Vanraj's mother
• Amrik Gill as Panditji
• Vinay Pathak as Tarun
• Helen as Mrs. Rafilini (Sameer's mom) (Special Appearance)

Reception[link]

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam was well received by most critics, especially for its emotional content, cinematography and music; as well as the performances of the lead actors, and a surprising performance by guest star Helen.^[3][4]

Ken Eisner writing for Variety said "this three-hour spectacular is stuffed with songs, romance, comedy, devotional material (both Christian and Hindu), and color-soaked dance numbers that are huge even by Hindi standards."^[5] Michael Dequina writing for TheMovieReport.com sais of the three leads "Rai, in a luminous, award-winning performance (largely considered her big dramatic breakthrough--and justifiably so), fills in the conflicted emotional shades that Khan fails to bring with his one-dimensional presence; and Devgan's soulful subtlety does its job in suggesting Sameer to be a more formidable romantic adversary than viewers would see him as being."^[6]

The film was a hit at the Indian box office, becoming the third highest grossing of the Bollywood films of 1999 with 32.5 crore.^[7] It also did well in the foreign box office with 11.1 crore.^[8]

Soundtrack[link]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Planet Bollywood	[9]

The music was composed by Ismail Darbar with lyrics by Mehboob. It received nine Filmfare Awards nominations in the music and singing categories and produced some winners as well.^[10]

Track listing[link]

Awards[link]

2000 National Awards[link]

• Best Music Direction - Ismail Darbar
• Best choreography - Vaibhavi Merchant

2000 Filmfare Awards[link]

• Best Movie
• Best Director - Sanjay Leela Bhansali
• Best Actress - Aishwarya Rai
• Best Male Playback - Udit Narayan, "Chand Chupa Badal Mein"
• Best Art Director - Nitin Chandrakant Desai
• Best Cinematographer - Anil Mehta
• Best Choreography - Saroj Khan, "Nimbooda"
• Best Background Score - Anjan Biswas
• RD Burman Award - Ismail Darbar
• Nominated, Best Actor - Salman Khan
• Nominated, Best Actor - Ajay Devgan

2000 Star Screen Awards[link]

• Star Screen Award Best Director - Sanjay Leela Bhansali
• Star Screen Award Best Actress - Aishwarya Rai
• Star Screen Award Best Female Playback - Kavita Krishnamurthy
• Star Screen Award for Best Screenplay - Sanjay Leela Bhansali & Kenneth Philips

2000 IIFA Awards[link]

• Best Movie
• Best Director - Sanjay Leela Bhansali
• Best Actress - Aishwarya Rai
• Best Male Playback - Udit Narayan, "Chand Chupa Badal Mein"
• Best Cinematography - Anail Mehta
• Best Story - Pratap Karvat / Sanjay Leela Bansali
• Best Dialogue - Amrik Gill
• Best Screenplay - Sanjay Leela Bansali
• Best Sound Recording - Jeetendra Chaudhary
• Best Sound Re-Recording - Sushmita Sen^[11]

Zee Cine Awards[link]

• Zee Cine Award Best Film - Sanjay Leela Bhansali
• Zee Cine Award Best Director - Sanjay Leela Bhansali
• Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Female - Aishwarya Rai
• Lux Face of the Year - Aishwarya Rai
• Zee Cine Award Best Playback Singer- Male - Udit Narayan
• Zee Cine Award Best Playback Singer- Female - Kavita Krishnamurthy

Zee Gold Awards[link]

• Best Director - Sanjay Leela Bhansali
• Best Actress Critics' Award - Aishwarya Rai^[12]
• Best Male Singer - Kumar Sanu
• Best Costume Designer - Neeta Lulla
• Best Cinematographer - Anil Mehta
• Best Screenplay - Sanjay Leela Bhansali

References[link]

1. ^ "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam at IBOS". Ibosnetwork.com. http://ibosnetwork.com/asp/filmbodetails.asp?id=Hum+Dil+De+Chuke+Sanam. Retrieved 2011-06-01. 
2. ^ Top Lifetime Grossers 1995-1999 (Figures in Ind Rs). Box Office India.
3. ^ "Planet-Bollywood - Film Review - Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam". Indolink.com. 1999-06-18. http://www.indolink.com/Film/hddcs.html. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
4. ^ "Rediff On The NeT, Movies: The review of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam". Rediff.com. 1999-06-17. http://www.rediff.com/entertai/1999/jun/17hum.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
5. ^ Eisner, Ken (2000-11-05). "Variety Reviews - Straight From the Heart - Film Reviews - - Review by Ken Eisner". Variety.com. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117788552?refcatid=31. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
6. ^ "The Movie Report Archive: July 2003 - TheMovieReport.com". Mrbrownmovies.com. http://mrbrownmovies.com/movierpt03-07.html#hddcs. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
7. ^ "Box Office 1999". BoxOfficeIndia.Com. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=205&catName=MTk5OQ==. Retrieved 2010-05-19. 
8. ^ "Box Office India overseas earners". BoxOfficeIndia.Com. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/cpages.php?pageName=overseas_earners. Retrieved 2010-05-19. 
9. ^ "Hum Dil De Chuke SanamMusic Review". http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=m092709044147. 
10. ^ "Filmfare nominations 1999". IndiaTimes.com. http://filmfareawards.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/368694.cms. Retrieved 2010-05-20. 
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12. ^ "US edition: Mixed bag at Zee Gold awards show". Rediff.com. 2000-06-08. http://www.rediff.com/us/2000/jun/08us.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-01. 

External links[link]

• Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam at the Internet Movie Database
• Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam at Bollywood Hungama

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