Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin

About the film

Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin (transl. The heart is such, it disagrees) is a 1991 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film produced by Gulshan Kumar and directed by Mahesh Bhatt. The film starred Bhatt's daughter Pooja Bhatt in her first major lead female role, with Aamir Khan starring as her love interest. Supporting roles were played by Anupam Kher, Sameer Chitre, and Tiku Talsania, while Deepak Tijori made a special appearance.

Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin plot was inspired from the 1934 Hollywood film It Happened One Night starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. In turn, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin was remade in Telugu as Kurradi Kurrodu (1994) and in Tamil as Kadhal Rojavae (2000). The Kannada film Hudugaata (2007) was also inspired by the same American film.

Plot

Pooja Dharamchand is the daughter of a wealthy Bombay shipping tycoon, Seth Dharamchand. She is head over heels in love with film star Deepak Kumar, but her father strongly disapproves of their relationship. One night, Pooja escapes from her father's yacht and boards a bus to Bangalore to be with Deepak, who is shooting a film there. Realising that his daughter has run away, Seth Dharamchand offers a reward to anyone who can find her.

Aboard the bus, Pooja meets Raghu Jaitley, a loud-mouthed journalist who has just lost his job. He offers to help her in exchange for an exclusive story about her, which would revive his flagging career. Pooja is forced to agree to his demands, as he threatens to inform her father of her whereabouts if she refuses. After they accidentally miss the bus, Raghu and Pooja go through a series of adventures together and eventually fall in love.

Raghu wishes to marry Pooja, but knows that he is not financially secure enough to do so. He temporarily leaves her, intending to ask his boss for money so that he can propose to her. Pooja also falls in love with Raghu and decides to be with him, but she misses his note and believes that he has abandoned her.

Awards

Best Female Playback Singer – Anuradha Paudwal for "Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin"

Best Lyricist – Faaiz Anwar for "Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin"

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film is composed by the music director duo Nadeem-Shravan. The song lyrics were written by Sameer, Faaiz Anwar, Rani Malik and Aziz Khan. All the songs are sung by Anuradha Paudwal, along with co-singers Kumar Sanu, Abhijeet, Babla Mehta and Debashish Dasgupta. On first release of audio, all the songs were originally voiced by Babla Mehta, but later was released with Kumar Sanu replacing Mehta, except "Galyat Sankali Sonyachi" sung by Mehta and "Dil Tujhpe Aa Gaya" sung by Abhijeet. The album became very popular in India with tracks like the title track and "Tu Pyaar Hai Kisi Aur Ka" (based on the Saleem Kausar ghazal "Main khayal hoon kisi aur ka") being very successful in the '90s, and are popular to date. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 2,500,000 units sold the soundtrack became the fifth highest-selling album of the year.

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