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.
Film · 2001
Dil Chahta Hai
दिल चाहता है
Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.
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Akash Malhotra's Best Moments
Dil Chahta Hai
Every Dil Chahta Hai moment featuring Akash Malhotra, in story order. Played by Aamir Khan.
18 moments · 48 minby Favseen
Siddharth "Sid" Sinha's Best Moments
Dil Chahta Hai
Every Dil Chahta Hai moment featuring Siddharth "Sid" Sinha, in story order. Played by Akshaye Khanna.
15 moments · 38 minby Favseen
Sameer Mulchandani's Best Moments
Dil Chahta Hai
Every Dil Chahta Hai moment featuring Sameer Mulchandani, in story order. Played by Saif Ali Khan.
11 moments · 29 minby Favseen
Shalini's Best Moments
Dil Chahta Hai
Every Dil Chahta Hai moment featuring Shalini, in story order. Played by Preity Zinta.
8 moments · 20 minby Favseen
Tara Jaiswal's Best Moments
Dil Chahta Hai
Every Dil Chahta Hai moment featuring Tara Jaiswal, in story order. Played by Dimple Kapadia.
6 moments · 14 minby Favseen
Rohit's Best Moments
Dil Chahta Hai
Every Dil Chahta Hai moment featuring Rohit, in story order. Played by Ayub Khan.
4 moments · 9 minby Favseen
Characters
All moments
25 in story order · 1h 05m
- 01
- 02
Akash's fake love speech lands him Rohit's punch
Akash tries his rehearsed declaration on Shalini at the party, then learns the man he brushed off as her brother is actually her fiance.
- 03
Akash's 'be a man' advice gets Sameer dumped
Sameer forgets to call Priya, Akash coaches him to stand up to her, and the plan backfires when Akash answers her call himself.
- 04
Tara reads the hidden world in Sid's paintings
Looking at his canvases, Tara tells Sid he keeps a private world nobody is allowed into; he answers that his best painting is still unpainted.
- 05
Dil Chahta Hai: the road trip to Goa
The title song plays over the three friends driving down the coast to Goa, wishing these sparkling days never end.
- 06
Sid's ship speech: friends for life?
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.
- 07
Dil Chahta Hai reprise over the Goa days
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.
- 08
Sameer's Swiss girlfriend turns out to be a crook
Back in Mumbai, Sameer finally admits what happened after he stayed on in Goa with Kristine, and why he came home in a truck.
- 09
Kaisi Hai Yeh Rut: Sid paints Tara's portrait
A song about a season when the heart blossoms plays as Sid sits down to paint Tara, their quiet bond deepening across the sessions.
- 10
Tara's birthday is shattered by her ex-husband's call
Esha was coming to visit until Ajay found out; Tara pours a drink, rages that she is still Esha's mother, and breaks down in front of Sid.
- 11
Eena Meena Deeka: the boys rescue Tara's birthday
Sid brings Akash and Sameer to Tara's place with a cake, and Akash pulls her into a dance to an old film song.
- 12
The fight: Sid confesses his love for Tara and slaps Akash
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.
- 13
Akash explains his two-week dating rule to Shalini
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.
- 14
Jaane Kyon: Akash and Shalini argue over love in song
After a film outing with Mahesh, Akash sings that love only brings misery while Shalini answers that life without it is empty.
- 15
Woh Ladki Hai Kahan: Sameer and Pooja's retro romance
Right after Sameer confesses, the pair spin through a pastiche of old Hindi film styles as he searches for the girl he can trust.
- 16
Tara rejects Sid, and he says he is not sorry for loving her
Having overheard Sid's mother, Tara tells Sid she never encouraged him; he apologizes for the pain but refuses to apologize for the love.
- 17
The opera: Troilus, Cressida and a thousand deaths
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.
- 18
'That fat opera singer': Akash dodges his own confession
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.
- 19
Tanhayee: Akash alone in Sydney
After Shalini tells him he did not see the singer at the opera, Akash wanders the city as the loneliness song plays.
- 20
The sangeet dance before Shalini's wedding
A folk song about a sandalwood spinning wheel drives the wedding-eve celebrations as Akash arrives from Sydney.
- 21
Akash crashes the sangeet and finally means every word
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.
- 22
Rohit's father asks Shalini to repay them by marrying Akash
Rohit's father says Shalini can settle her debt to the family only by being happy, and Rohit must watch her leave with Akash.
- 23
Akash calls Sid to apologize, then tells him to turn around
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.
- 24
Tara's last words to Sid: some relationships have no name
At her hospital bedside Tara tells Sid he has always stood by her, asks him to be happy, and gives their bond its only name.
- 25
Dil Chahta Hai finale: the friends reunited
The title song closes the film with a new verse about friends who only understood what they had once they came back together.