
Koi Kahe Kehta Rahe: the graduation-night anthem
The three friends take the stage at their graduation party and belt out the film's carefree anthem about ignoring what the world says.

Every Dil Chahta Hai moment featuring Akash Malhotra, in story order. Played by Aamir Khan.
18 moments · 48 min · by Favseen

The three friends take the stage at their graduation party and belt out the film's carefree anthem about ignoring what the world says.

Akash tries his rehearsed declaration on Shalini at the party, then learns the man he brushed off as her brother is actually her fiance.

Sameer forgets to call Priya, Akash coaches him to stand up to her, and the plan backfires when Akash answers her call himself.

The title song plays over the three friends driving down the coast to Goa, wishing these sparkling days never end.

At the fort in Goa, Sid watches a ship vanish and wonders if the three of them will drift apart the same way; Akash swears they never will.

The title song returns as the friends spend their days in Goa, with a new verse asking where each of them is destined to go.

Back in Mumbai, Sameer finally admits what happened after he stayed on in Goa with Kristine, and why he came home in a truck.

Sid brings Akash and Sameer to Tara's place with a cake, and Akash pulls her into a dance to an old film song.

Sid tells his friends he loves Tara; Akash turns it into a crude joke, Sid hits him and says love cannot be planned, and the trio breaks apart.

Over lunch in Sydney, Akash lays out why he never lets love happen, and Shalini warns him that it is not a thing you get to choose.

After a film outing with Mahesh, Akash sings that love only brings misery while Shalini answers that life without it is empty.

Shalini takes Akash to Troilus and Cressida and asks him to close his eyes and picture the person he would die a thousand deaths for.

Pressed on who he saw with his eyes closed, Akash describes her eyes, voice and breath while looking at Shalini, then ruins it with a joke.

After Shalini tells him he did not see the singer at the opera, Akash wanders the city as the loneliness song plays.

Akash asks Shalini to marry him, takes Rohit's second punch, and repeats his old party speech, this time for real, in front of the guests.

Rohit's father says Shalini can settle her debt to the family only by being happy, and Rohit must watch her leave with Akash.

Akash phones the hospital to say sorry, Sid tells him he has not changed at all, and the friends embrace for the first time in years.

The title song closes the film with a new verse about friends who only understood what they had once they came back together.