{"id":559,"date":"2008-04-28T18:16:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T22:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=559"},"modified":"2008-04-28T18:18:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T22:18:05","slug":"dil-chahta-hai-2001-farhan-akhtar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/559","title":{"rendered":"Dil Chahta Hai (2001, Farhan Akhtar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katy showed me this Bollywood movie to wash away the pain of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/338\">Partner<\/a><\/em>.  This one wasn&#8217;t hateful, loud, empty, an extended music-video ripoff of an already-bad Hollywood film, but I didn&#8217;t love it either.  Katy said the camera work was very good and often beautiful, but I found it uninspired, generic.  Music was unmemorable but not bad.  One nice music segment when a couple is at the movies seeing themselves onscreen reminded me of <em>Pennies From Heaven<\/em>.  Story is alright, a light romance about three buddies and their love lives.<\/p>\n<p>Akash (Aamir Khan &#8211; ice candy man in <em>Earth<\/em>, main dude in <em>Lagaan<\/em>) has a little beard patch under his lip, kinda arrogant but becomes a Good Guy as movie progresses.  Gets sent to Australia and falls for a girl his parents previously tried to set him up with.<\/p>\n<p>Sid (Akshaye Khanna &#8211; played Gandhi&#8217;s son last year) has an uneven hairline, is an artist and a Good Guy to begin with, falls for an alcoholic older woman with a kid and an ex-husband but she dies in the end.<\/p>\n<p>Sameer (Saif Ali Khan &#8211; once played a character named Jimmy, but not THE Jimmy) has no distinguishing features or characteristics except that he falls in love with every girl he sees.<\/p>\n<p>Also some women with names like Preity and Dimple, but don&#8217;t confuse me here.<\/p>\n<p>Was nominated for 13 Indian academy awards, but got trampled by <em>Lagaan<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy showed me this Bollywood movie to wash away the pain of Partner. This one wasn&#8217;t hateful, loud, empty, an extended music-video ripoff of an already-bad Hollywood film, but I didn&#8217;t love it either. Katy said the camera work was very good and often beautiful, but I found it uninspired, generic. Music was unmemorable but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[113,80,251],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-india","tag-musical","tag-starts-at-the-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}