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Sid (Khanna) for instance falls in love with Tara (Dimple Kapadia), an older woman battling addiction amid a terrible divorce in which she has lost custody of her child. The plot, light as it was, was unusual too. Then 27, he too had been part of a group where someone played a stupid prank on a girl at a bar, realised he was in love while at the opera, and desperately tried to win a womanвЂ™s love far too close to her wedding. Akhtar, who wrote the story, drew on his own life and those of his friends. If it felt real, perhaps thatвЂ™s because in many ways it was.

More than anything else, it was вЂcoolвЂ™,вЂќ says filmmaker Raj Nidimoru, one half of the duo Raj & DK (The Family Man, Go Goa Gone, Shor in the City). It was clearly within the framework of mainstream films. The modern, urban Indian film was redefined by this film. вЂњDil Chahta Hai was a breath of fresh air. To a post-liberalisation generation growing up in relative comfort, and confidence, the film was aspirational looking back, the film, with its road trips and weekends in Goa, its casual approaches to money, relationships and sex, seems almost prophetic. Much of the change reflected in Dil Chahta Hai was just beginning to make itself felt in urban India. вЂњEvery music label, except T-Series in the end, refused to buy the music for the same reason.вЂќ All our distributors decided that they didnвЂ™t want distribute it within 48 hours of the screening,вЂќ remembers Ritesh Sidhwani, co-founder along with Akhtar of Excel Entertainment, which produced the film. вЂњWe were constantly told how much of a gamble this film was.

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Both were considerable feats for a movie that insiders had written off as a huge risk. It was the seventh-highest-grossing Hindi film of 2001. The film, Farhan AkhtarвЂ™s directorial debut, was released in theatres on August 10 and made в‚№6.4 crore at the box office. Preity Zinta dressed, for the most part, in clothes any urban woman might find in her wardrobe. The sense of authenticity was mirrored in the costumes and sets. This wasnвЂ™t the boisterous friendship of the Hindi blockbuster through the ages. The mischievous Sameer (Saif) putting a gentle hand on his shoulder. The sensitive Sid (Khanna) wondering where they were headed and whether theyвЂ™d get there together. Google Chapora Fort and reams of photos pop up of young men trying to recreate the magic of a lazy afternoon when the three lounged on the ramparts there. As they lounged, drove around, played volleyball, they created a template for urban Indian bromance that didnвЂ™t yet exist.

And then here were these three men, Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Akshaye Khanna, gently navigating the heartbreaks of transition into adulthood, including the confounding loss of friendships that had survived all else, the grief of impossible love and the confusion of not knowing oneвЂ™s place in the world.