"It's a film about love, not Friendship.", enlightened Director says a few weeks ago "It's a film about three friends finding Love." I am dumbstruck.
Dil Chahta Hai. It's been almost fourteen years since I first saw the film. And since then, I've never left it behind. On a pirated CD, then a two-disk set, a downloaded torrent file, then in BluRay.
As a kid, my favorite part was Aamir Khan's story. The scene on the roller coaster, the fight in the graduation party, the creepy guy on the subway. Which kid wouldn't love it.
Growing up, I started loving Saif Ali's hilarious escapades with his girlfriends. The 'Magar woh, Suno toh, Tumne toh, Lekin main?', the slaps, and Pooja's boyfriend Subodh. I don't remember ever liking Saif Ali Khan and Sonali Kulkarni as much ever after after that.
The friendship part of it has been indispensable the whole time too. And then comes, Akshayye Khanna. 'Sid.'
Sid, calm, composed, keeps his worries to himself and silently bears the harsh brunts of being too mature for his own good. Sid comes off the worst in this quest for love and the film climaxes on him saying goodbye. BORING. I always jumped ahead when his part in the movie came up.
Fourteen years, innumerable views and countless praises later, as I watch it for the first time in a long time, when it is Sid, who's story leaves me overwhelmed, it's time to figure out that somewhere with this movie, I have grown up.
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