Ranked #14 of 100
Dil Chahta Hai
दिल चाहता है · 2001
Three friends, one Goa road trip, and the moment urban Indian youth started talking on screen the way they talked off it.
- Director
- Farhan Akhtar
- Year
- 2001
- Genre
- Drama · Comedy
- Cast
- Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta
Why it's at number 14
Year zero for modern Hindi cinema — production design, silence, sincerity, and men who admit things.
Three friends, one Goa road trip, and the moment urban Indian youth started talking on screen the way they talked off it.
Dil Chahta Hai sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Black Friday — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Farhan Akhtar.
- Released in 2001, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Dil Chahta Hai (2001) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
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