Film
Dil Se
1998
TypeFilm
Year1998
LanguageHindi
DirectorMani Ratnam
CollaboratorsA. R. Rahman,Santosh Sivan,Shah Rukh Khan,Sujatha Rangarajan
About
A radio journalist falls obsessively in love with a mysterious woman he meets at a train station — not knowing she is a suicide bomber on a mission. Dil Se is Mani Ratnam's darkest and most surreal film: a meditation on desire, nationalism, and the wounds of India's insurgencies, with Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala.
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Why This Matters
Mani Ratnam's most uncompromising film — a love story that refuses to resolve, set inside India's northeast insurgencies. Dil Se was misread on release as a failure; it is now recognised as one of the great Indian films of the 1990s. The 'Chaiyya Chaiyya' sequence alone justifies its existence.
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