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10 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
A cliche done beautifully..., 11 February 2003

Author: Sam from USA

First of all, it is Bollywood! So stop looking for signs of a Spielberg flick!! True, the plot is a Bollywood cliché; rich girl, poor boy, angry parents, etc. But keep in mind that the story line wasn't so tired and typical when this movie was first released and helped lead to a decade of romance-driven Bollywood movies. Khan portrays a solid character who has both comical and dramatic moments beautifully acted by him. And Madhuri, who won a best actress award for this role, delivers a great performance. The soundtrack is very good, thanks to the exceptional voice of Udit Narayan whose smile you can "hear" through the music. I gave this movie 5 starts instead of 4 because I have such fond memories of watching it when it came out in 1990. But compared to other Bollywood movies, it should really be a 4.

7 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Excellent, 21 January 2006

Author: SHG SHG

For me this movie this it's the best Hindi movie, Aamir Khan gives his best performance as Madhury Dixit does. They make a great couple, personally, I think they should have done more than 3 movies together. I strongly recommend everybody who likes Hindi movies to see this one. Since the first time I watched DIl, when I was 7 or 8 years old I fall in love with the movie, the story is very nice and full of tenderness. Another thing I love from this movie is the sound track, there are songs as Mujhe Neend Na Aaye and Hum Pyar Karnewale that I'm completely sure you are going to enjoy. For all of this reasons exposed in the lines before, I give DIL a 10. I hope everybody who watch this movie enjoy it as much as I did.

3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Wow..a classic, a must see, 6 January 2007
Author: uzairumair from United Kingdom

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I have been seeing this movie again and again since childhood when i owned it on a VHS (and stooped watching it when my VCR broke)..anyway the film is hilarious in the beginning and an excellent die-hard romance story in the end with a not so obvious happy ending. The movie is great to watch, amazing for college kids form any era, the film is fantastic, the songs are amazing, the whole vibe is so young and hip. It has all the cool hip college stuff about parties and bunking classes in the beginning and in the end it turns into something like a romantic coming of age adventure, where the hero (amir khan) and heroine (madhuri) live their life somehwere else (well complemented by a song). There is even a rape scene inbetween after which their love begins, much better then beating up thugs, an excellent change for the Indian cinema at that time. We can see that the way the move goes was probably inspired by some American movies (perpahps grease) however the movies tempo was also taken up in johar and yash movies i.e. a comic beginning, a sad middle and a happy end. Very nicely done, spectacular, the characters are what they should. Amir and Madhuri look excellent for the role, both were young (they still are) at the time and did their parts with true honesty. Same goes for others and each character changed from a comic to aserious one in the later HALF of the movie. Brilliant, just brilliant

6 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
Fantastic Movie, 15 January 2006

Author: portelamass from United States

"Dil" is my favorite Hindi film. Aamir Khan and Madhuri Dixit are both SENSATIONAL actors, and I really wish they had done more films together. Since both Aamir and Madhuri are talented actors, together, they make an excellent pair. Plus, they are both good-looking. I love this movie - it is filled with drama, romance, and comedy. I find many Hindi films to be slow and boring, but not this one.

Films such as Dilwale Dulhanie Le Jayenge, Taal, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, and Dil To Pagal Hai turned out to be hits. To be quite honest, I found these films to be so slow and boring, I nearly fell asleep halfway through. Dil is not a boring film. It is a great, entertaining, emotional film, a must-see. So romantic. Raja and Madhu are deeply in love.

Dil is the best Hindi film ever!!

2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Excellent, Fantastic and Superb, 29 September 2008

Author: Liakot Ali from London

Mujhe Neendh na aye is a beautiful song from this super hit film. Dil is a teen romantic movie with lots of comedy and family drama added in. The first half is non stop comedy and is the best half. The second half is still good but a little bit more slower. Amir Khan is a fine actor and this is his early film where he delivers a good performance. Madhuri Dixit is the beautiful actress with so much talent who is great in this film. Anupom Kher is A Class in this film playing a wealthy man who wants more money and is stingy as hell. He is fantastic and made me laugh through the whole film. Great Direction, Lovely film, Nice songs and a simple storyline. I have seen this film 10 times and im still not bored of this.

2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Heartwarming romance, 27 July 2008

Author: shivakumarvishwa from India

The movie is very sweet and emotional.Direction is not bad.Script is great.Story is nice.It tells about Raja who meets Madhu.At first sight they fight.Then they discover love,Engagement is planned,But it is broken soon.They want to be together,But they marry.But they broke off.This was Inder Kumars debut who gave us entertainers like Beta,Raja,Ishq,Mann,Dhammal.Aamir gives a terrific performance he should have received best actor rather than the Pathetic Sunny Deol in Ghayal that year.Madhuri also gives another terrific performance.Deven and Anupham also give great performances.The first half has comedy that keeps you very entertained.Second half has lots of Drama and Romance that also keeps you entertained.Chemistry is wonderful.Dancing is great.Comedy is great and funny to.The music by Anand Miland is perfect.Songs like"Humne Ghar Choda Hai","Hum Pyar Karne Wala" are very emotional and are quite melodious tracks.The movie is a watch Rating-7/10

Comedy or romantic?, 12 April 2009

Author: silvan-desouza from India

Certain films try to be funny and romantic, emotional DIL is one of them

The film has a simple story and a comic book approach which gets serious in second half but here too they are some funny moments like in the jail

The drama is so hackneyed it stinks

The film works at times when it's funny other then that nothing else

Indra Kumar seems confused but handles some scenes well

Music is good

Aamir Khan is good like always, this is one of his earlier films and 2nd big hit after QSQT Madhuri is good Anupam is a real fun though he overdoes it at times Saeed hams

0 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
inane formula film, 16 December 1998

Author: Karthik Balasubramaniam from Colorado, USA

This film is a hodge-podge of various idiotic cliches. For instance, boy-meets-spoilt-rich-girl and gets her to fall in love with him by harassing her in college (an over-used backdrop in recent Indian commercial films). A male chauvinistic glorification of sexual conquest. The climax is predictable (having been used ad nauseum in several other films). As with many other recent commercial Hindi films, the film abounds with the incongruous insertion of songs, which probably contributed to the film's success more than anything else.

1 out of 21 people found the following review useful:
Even the songs were poor Copies, 1 July 1999
Author: Neels-2 from Paris, France

A horrible movie in my opinion. Absolutely male-chauvinistic. The lead pair was at its peak at that time and the music was catchy, which probably made it a hit with the masses.

But the music Directors Anand-Milind are notorious for copying tunes note-by-note from the maestro Ilayaraja. (an unparalleled genius who has composed for over 720 movies and has the credit of composing a symphony in 28 days flat- (a feat honored by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)

The duo of Anand and Milind has made its career out of rehashing the songs of Ilayaraja and this film's success and the lack of any copyright laws only encouraged them to copy his tunes for all their future films... until of course A R Rahman stormed into the music industry and scared the living-daylights out of these fellows...

Dil was an absolutely overrated 'masala' film which hardly entertained.

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