The Extended Canon
Dil To Pagal Hai
दिल तो पागल है · 1997
A dance troupe's director believes love is a script until an understudy rewrites it. Yash Chopra's most stylised romance.
- Director
- Yash Chopra
- Year
- 1997
- Genre
- Romance · Musical
- Cast
- Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Karisma Kapoor, Akshay Kumar
Why it's in the canon
Uttam Singh's score and Madhuri Dixit at the absolute summit of screen presence.
A dance troupe's director believes love is a script until an understudy rewrites it. Yash Chopra's most stylised romance.
Dil To Pagal Hai sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Yash Chopra — also responsible for Deewaar, Darr, Kabhi Kabhie.
- Released in 1997, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Musical.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) · 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
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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