Dil Se

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Shah Rukh Khan as Amarkant Verma “Amar”
• Manisha Koirala as Moina / Meghna
• Preity Zinta as Preeti Verma
• Mita Vasisht as Mita
• Arundhati Rao as Kamal Dev Burman – AIR station director
• Raghubir Yadav as Shukla ji – AIR manager
• Zohra Sehgal as Amar’s Grandmother
• Janagaraj as Taxi Driver
• Gautam Bora as terrorist Leader
• Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as a terrorist
• Aditya Srivastava as Terrorist
• Sanjay Mishra as a terrorist
• Anupam Shyam as a terrorist
• Shabbir Masani as a terrorist
• Krisn Kant as Kim terrorist
• Manjit Bawa as a terrorist
• Vineeta Malik as Amar’s mother
• Piyush Mishra as Arun Kashyap (CBI investigation officer)
• Gajraj Rao as CBI investigation officer
• Priya Parulekar as Young Maina
• Malaika Arora in a special appearance in the song “Chaiyya Chaiyya”
• Vanitha Malik as a school teacher
• Tigmanshu Dhulia as a cameo appearance as man at the post office
• Sameer Chanda as cameo appearance Tuba music shop dealer
• Shaad Ali as a cameo as a citizen of Silchar
• Wasiq Khan as a cameo
• Pia Benegal as a cameo
• Chintu Mohapatra as a cameo
• Karan Nath as a cameo
• Hemant Mishra as cameo
• B. M. Shah as a cameo
• R. K. Nair as Preeti’s father
• Alka as Preeti’s Mother
• Rajiv Gupta as Sub-inspector
• Avtar Sahani as Army general
• Lakshmi Rattan as Hazarika army official
• Sheeba Chaddha as Moina’s sister

Storyline:

Amar Varma, a producer for Indian news radio, meets an enigmatic woman at a railroad station and then again at a hill station. He falls in love with her, but the woman, who calls herself Meghna, rejects and leaves him although she seems to be interested. Later, Varma agrees to marry his family’s choice, Preeti. But suddenly Meghna is back, and what is the secret that she holds?

About Movie:

Dil Se..  is a Hindi romantic thriller film co-written and directed by Mani Ratnam. The film features Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala in lead roles, with Preity Zinta making her film debut in a supporting role. Set against the backdrop of insurgency in Assam, Dil Se is the final installment in Ratnam’s trilogy that includes Roja (1992) and Bombay (1995).

Dil Se.. was released on October 21, 1998, and received mixed reviews from critics but was praised for its music and cinematography. It performed moderately well at the domestic box office while achieving significant success overseas, earning $975,000 in the United States and £537,930 in the United Kingdom. It became the first Indian film to enter the top 10 of the UK box office charts.

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