Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999)

Director:

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Writers:

Sanjay Leela Bhansali (writer)
Amrik Gill (dialogue)
(more)

Release Date:

18 June 1999 (India)

Genre:

Musical | Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

In this world... where desire rules the heart, you will discover... love is the flame that lights up the soul

Plot:

The half-Indian, half-Italian Sameer (Salman Khan) comes to India to learn classical music from Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) and falls for Darbar's daughter, Nandini (Aishwarya Rai).

Plot Keywords:

Love | Sacrifice | Suicide Attempt | Love After Marriage | Muscleman

Awards:

26 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Ajay Devgan	...	Vanraj
Salman Khan	...	Sameer Rafilini
Aishwarya Rai	...	Nandini
Vikram Gokhale	...	Pundit Darbar
Smita Jaykar	...	Amrita
Zohra Sehgal	...	Dadi
Rajeev Verma	...	Vikramjeet (Vanraj's dad)
Kermati Desai	...	Bhairav
Vinay Pathak	...	Tarun
Kanu Gill	...	Vanraj's mother
Ahsan Khan	...	Nilesh
Amrik Gill	...	Panditji
István Wohlmuth	...	Photographer
Csilla Szabo	...	Fighting couple
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sheeba Chaddha	...	Anupama
Helen	...	Mrs. Rafilini (Sameer's mom (special appearance)
Dimple Inamdar	...	Shilpa
Divya Jagdale	...	Sanjukta
Perjes Janos	...	Fighting couple
Akash Karnataki	...	Bharat
Jameel Khan	...	Nimesh
Preeti Koppikar	...	Radha
Sehoor Magda	...	Teacher
Atul Kumar Mittal	...	Kamlesh
Ghanshyam Naik	...	Vitthal Kaka
Harry Paintal	...	Haresh
Rekha Rao	...	Kamna Pui
Corallo Ray	...	Doctor
Canny Singh	...	Parul
Milind Ukey	...	Indian Musician
Meenakshi Verma	...	Pushpa

Directed by
Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Sanjay Leela Bhansali		writer
Amrik Gill		dialogue
Pratap Karvat		story
Kenneth Phillips		writer

Produced by
Sanjay Leela Bhansali	....	producer
Ibrahim Desai	....	executive producer
Jhamu Sughand	....	producer
André Szots	....	executive producer: Hungary

Original Music by
Anjan Biswas
Ismail Darbar

Cinematography by
Anil Mehta

Film Editing by
Bela Segal

Art Direction by
Nitin Chandrakant Desai		(as Nitin Desai)

Costume Design by
Shabina Khan
Neeta Lulla

Makeup Department
Harish Wadhone	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Miklós Tóth	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sumit Kumar	....	assistant director
Vikramaditya Motwane	....	assistant director
Judit Soltész	....	assistant director: Hungary

Sound Department
Jitendra Chaudhary	....	sound designer
Tanay Gajjar	....	sound editor
Suresh Kathuria	....	sound re-recording engineer
Parikshit Lalwani	....	sound editor

Special Effects by
Acharya Jitendra	....	special effects
Ramesh Meer	....	special effects

Stunts
Sándor Boros	....	stunt driver
Zoltán Gulyás Kiss	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Istvan Bolla	....	gaffer: Hungary
R.J. Gururaj	....	assistant camera
János Kiss	....	dolly grip

Music Department
Bishwadeep Chatterjee	....	song mixing engineer
Bardai Damayanti	....	playback singer
Jyotsna Hardikar	....	playback singer
Hariharan	....	playback singer
Kay Kay	....	playback singer
Ustad Sultan Khan	....	musician
Kavita Krishnamurthy	....	playback singer
Shankar Mahadevan	....	playback singer
Udit Narayan	....	playback singer
Vinod Rathod	....	playback singer
Kumar Sanu	....	playback singer
Karsan Sargathiya	....	playback singer
Alka Yagnik	....	playback singer

Other crew
Nabeel Abbas	....	marketing and promotions
Saroj Khan	....	choreographer
Natbar Maharana	....	choreographer
Peter Martis	....	public relations officer
M. Riaz	....	segment coordinator
Milind Ukey	....	associate director

Thanks
Dylan Gray	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Bhansali Films

Distributors

• Video Sound (1999) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Video Sound (1999) (USA) (theatrical)
• Digital Entertainment (DEI) (1999) (USA) (DVD) (as DEI)
• Pathfinder Pictures
• STAR TV
• Sony Entertainment Television Asia
• Spark Worldwide (2002) (UK) (DVD)
• Tip Top Entertainment (TTE) (1999) (UK) (DVD) (as Tip Top Video)
• Video Sound (1999) (Canada) (DVD)
• Video Sound (1999) (Canada) (VHS)
• Video Sound (1999) (USA) (DVD)
• Video Sound (1999) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)  soundtrack (as T-Series)

Also Known As:

Straight from the Heart (International: English title)

Runtime:

UK:188 min

Country:

India | Hungary

Language:

Hindi | English | Hungarian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:G | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Budapest, Hungary

Company:

Bhansali Films

Trivia:

This movie also resulted in a real life romance between Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai, the most publicized love affair in the history of Indian Cinema.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: All of the scenes supposedly set in Italy are in Hungary - the signs are all in Hungarian, and the locals all speak Hungarian.

Quotes:

Vanraj: Can I say something?
Nandini: What?
Vanraj: I cannot live without you

Movie Connections:

Featured in Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh (2005)

Soundtrack:

A Certain Light

one of the best movies of 99

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam is a wonderful film and good acting. Aishwariya Rai's performance was astonishing and it proved to everyone she can act. Salman Khan's performance was good aswell who put on the comedy for us. Ajay devgan has proved yet again what a good actor he is. Helen doesn't do a bad job as Salman Khan's mum.

The film is about Sameer (Salman Khan), a half Indian/half Italian who wants to learn singing from a famous classical singer and while he's there he falls in love with his daughter, Nandini (Aishwariya Rai) and the two fall in love. meanwhile a guy called Vanraj (Ajay Devgan) sees Nandini performing and falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage and her parents say yes but then after they realize about Sameer's and Nandini's love affair, they hit the roof and arrange Vanraj's and Nandini's wedding straight away and so Sameer is sent back home to Italy and Nandini becomes really depressed and the two are heart broken.

Vanraj and Nandini get married and Vanraj realizes that she's not enthusiastic on their wedding night and later realizes she's very cold with him and realizes why and because he loves her so much he's prepared to sacrifice his love and goes to Italy to reunite the lovers and while they're in Italy they try hunting around for Sameer but have no picture of him. later Nandini is sent to hospital after being shot by some theives and Vanraj has no money so sacrifices his wedding ring to pay for her treatment and Nandini suddenly changes and starts wearing Sindoor for him. Vanraj and Sameer meet and they become good friends not realizing Sameer is the guy he's looking for. The time comes for Nandini to meet Sameer at one of his shows and How will she react? will she have spent too much time with Vanraj to forget about Sameer or will she ride off into the sunset with Sameer?

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam is great and has colour in it and Aishwariya Rai's outfits look lovely and Ajay Devgan's and Salman Khan's acting is superb! over all this film deserves a 9.5 out of 10.