Dillagi

About the film

Dillagi is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Sunny Deol in his directorial debut. The cast includes Sunny Deol, his real-life brother Bobby Deol and Urmila Matondkar, along with Dara Singh, and Zohra Sehgal with Preity Zinta in a special appearance. The film was released on 19 November 1999.

It is the first film in which Sunny Deol acted alongside his brother Bobby Deol.

Plot

Ranveer and Rajveer are devoted brothers. They along with their family, leave their village in Punjab to move to Mumbai. Ranveer takes on the responsibility of looking after his younger brother. After some hardships Ranveer, along with his father, manages to turn everything around and their family becomes really wealthy. Rajveer, on the other hand, lives recklessly. The first scene of the movie shows Ranveer inaugurating a hotel and they have a party where Rajveer arrives later with his foreign girlfriend. They have a grandmother who takes care of them along with their father.

Shalini joins the same college as Rajveer. He starts to woo her as a joke but she falls in love with him. One night, Shalini confesses her love for Rajveer telling him she intends to marry him assuming the same on Rajveer's part, but he takes the proposal as a joke. This doesn't annoy Shalini at first as she had fallen for him truly.

She keeps talking about marriage but one day Rajveer goes berserk and tells her that he does not love her. He even shows up at Shalini's house (enraged because his friends told him they think he has fallen in love with Shalini) disrespecting her parents as well in the process. This crushes Shalini as she realises she had loved a wrong person. A college rival of Rajveer, jealous of Rajveer since he had a crush on Shalini, tries to beat up Rajveer with his hired goons. Ranveer learns of it and rushes over to Rajveer's aid. The college student and his goons attack Rajveer on the head with a weapon, but Ranveer arrives and saves Rajveer, they thrash the goons and Rajveer's college rival.

Music

The music for the songs was composed by Jatin–Lalit, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Sukhwinder Singh and Anand–Milind. The lyrics of the songs were penned by Javed Akhtar, Tejpal Kaur and Sukhwinder Singh.

The background score of the film was done by Viju Shah.

The music had a compilation of singers including Mahendra Kapoor,Abhijeet ,Kumar Sanu, Amit Kumar, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Roop Kumar Rathod, Sukhwinder Singh, Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Jaspinder Narula, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Mohini Brahmbhatt and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Reception

Suparn Verma of Rediff.com wrote, "He [Sunny Deol] does a competent job, making the film simple and pleasant. However, what lets him down is a contrived and cliched storyline".

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