

A lot has been written about actor-producer-writer-director Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai (which can be watched here and here ) and how it changed the idiom of filmmaking in Hindi cinema forever. On Tuesday, one of the most iconic Hindi films of the 2000s completed twenty years of its release. Let’s talk about a film that taught much of India to dream of a better life. India celebrates its 75th Independence Day tomorrow. That is about all things cinema, society that watches it, industry that creates it, and media that writes about it.

This is the 13th edition of Reel and Real, sent fortnightly on Saturday.
