Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... (2005)

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Director:

Romesh Sharma

Writer:

Romesh Sharma (written by)

Release Date:

23 September 2005 (India)

Genre:

Romance

Plot:

During the British rule in India, several Indians were lured by the British to travel to distant Mauritius where they would have a better life...

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan	...	Shekhar Sinha
Revathy	...	Sandhya S. Sinha
Karan Sharma	...	Jai S. Sinha
Annabelle Wallis	...	Sophie Besson / Savirti Pradhan (as Annabelle Wallace)
Bhoomika Chawla	...	Dr. Gayarti Pandey
Malcolm Stoddard	...	Norman Besson
Claire Oberman	...	Claire Besson
Sara Zommorodi	...	Anne -The flirtatious girl (as Sara Zammorodi)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Danny Denzongpa	...	Narrator
Manuj Gulati	...	Gaurav Gulati
Caroline Ilea	...	Saleswoman (as Caroline Olea)
Mumait Khan	...	Special Appearance (Song)
Romesh Sharma	...	Ashim

Directed by
Romesh Sharma

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Romesh Sharma		written by

Produced by
Lawrence D'Souza	....	executive producer
Romesh Sharma	....	producer

Original Music by
Shankar Mahadevan		(as Shankar)
Loy Mendonsa		(as Loy)
Ehsaan Noorani		(as Ehsaan)

Cinematography by
Binod Pradhan
Gopal Shah

Film Editing by
Anil Kumar Bonthu
Rasshi Ganeriwal

Production Design by
Neema Sharma

Art Direction by
Sriram Iyengar		(art direction)
Veena Kanchan
Sujeet Sawant

Costume Design by
Shaahid Amir		(as Shaheed Amir)
Anna Singh

Makeup Department
Venus Ferreira	....	makeup department head

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Rajesh K. Gupta	....	chief assistant director

Sound Department
Vikram Biswas	....	sound effects editor
Subir Kumar Das	....	foley and EFX mixer: SoundCity Mixing
Anup Dev	....	sound mixing engineer
Rakesh Ranjan	....	sound designer
Vengurlekar Rohan	....	assistant studio engineer

Camera and Electrical Department
Samir Sarkar	....	still photographer
Rishi Umrania	....	gaffer
Sophie Winqvist	....	lighting technician

Music Department
Javed Ali	....	playback singer
Sudesh Bhonsle	....	playback singer
Dominique Cerejo	....	playback singer (as Dominique)
Subir Kumar Das	....	post music mixing
Shreya Ghoshal	....	playback singer
Gayatri Iyer	....	playback singer
Mahalakshmi Iyer	....	playback singer (as Mahalaksmi Iyer)
Shefali Kapoor	....	playback singer
Shankar Mahadevan	....	playback singer
Caralisa Monteiro	....	playback singer (as Caralisa)
Sonu Nigam	....	playback singer
Vaishali Samant	....	playback singer
Prashant Samundhar	....	playback singer
Shaan	....	playback singer

Other crew
Caesar Gonsalves	....	choreographer
Saroj Khan	....	choreographer
Bosco Martis	....	choreographer (as Bosco)
Raju Sundaram	....	choreographer

Production Companies

• Entertainment One Pvt. Ltd.

Distributors

• EuroVideo (2006) (Germany) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Country:

India

Language:

English | Hindi

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Drottningholm Palace, Ekerö, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company:

Entertainment One Pvt. Ltd.

Trivia:

Manmohan Shetty suggested Amitabh Bachchan's name to Romesh Sharma.

Soundtrack:

Kaun Jaane

Easy Romeo and Juliet Story !

Overall it's a nice movie, but without much to call great or special. And according to the old movies of the big B once; it's disappointing. Well.. colorful but disappointing.

This was the first movie ever for both the young leads (Karan Sharma & Annabelle Wallace). And the 2 newcomers were charismatic, talented and having chemistry. The girl in particular captured my heart with her beauty, smile and short dress like for instance when she paused for a second in front of her mirror to fix herself before opining the door for her lover, DAMN! She was perfect, so what the hell she was fixing ?!

It managed to deliver sweet image but not sweet drama. Studying the stories behind the dishes or using the historical conflict to complicate the love story were the only unusual points. Because the rest of the movie was so usual, lacking the surprises, giving *unforgettable* solution for the whole matter at the end (too-old-it's-unused, or too-easy-it's-laughable !).

The idiot attempt to assure that Amitabh Bachchan is shorter than (Karan Sharma) bothered me very, since we all know that if there was any taller actor than Bachchan then he'll have no chance to work in the Indian cinema or any other cinema being too tall to be captured on a camera !

I read that in 2005 Bachchan was admitted to a hospital, to undergo surgery for diverticulitis of the small intestine. That nearly explains the condition of him here, appearing so weary for all the time.

Bachchan plays rich, so rich, person. This might give you the feeling that since he, Bachchan, became a rich man in real life, so he's playing himself in the movies away from his common roles during all the 1970s and the 1980s! Actually, while I know that there is no actor plays just one role, that seems partly true since he became somewhat away from poor people in the first place, living another higher class. But here, it was clear from the very start that it is a smooth story and movie to tranquilize. So there was originally no place for anything but colored houses, stylish costumes, expensive cars..etc.

There was no amnesia, no lost-and-found child, and no Amrish Puri to be killed by the hands of Bachchan in the end. And avoiding also songs with 200 dancers, forced comedy or action (Dil Jo Bhi Kahey) wanted to be a different experience as simple romance. However this no-customary work has been made customarily in itself. Surely it's less noisy compared to the classic Indian movies, yet less amusing compared to them or else; being too simple, TV-ish and poor.

This is how (Romeo and Juliet) transforms into suave postcards or bed time story. Let's say it is the tamest Romeo and Juliet I've ever seen !