Dil Chahta Hai

I wrote this a long time back. Am putting up now. It is my analysis of a few people on Dil Chahta Hai..

AKASH (AAMIR KHAN)

Filled with ego and selfishness. Loves making fun of his friends, and to mock at them and others. Always wants to show how he has already experienced things more than others. He is so blinded by his thoughts that he just sets his own rules for everything (There is nothing like long lasting love, and all who are in it are only fooling themselves). Even when he tries flirting with Shalini, he is so unconcerned about whether she has come with someone that he actually pushes away the topic saying that the person she is accompanying is her brother and he knows him. And after misbehaving with her in front of everyone, he actually feels proud of himself thinking he has won the moment. He always thinks extremely short term – if at all. He is not emotional. He only wants to enjoy the moment (Who cares where the hell we land up) – he also says he wants independence – he wants someone who’d live her own life and let him live his own. He is untouched by hard reality.
However, when he does face reality, he is up for it, and takes all the right decisions. He shares a good and open relationship with his parents, who also help him in taking his decisions. That is a drastic change from the old Akash, where his parents would decide things for him and he would just take them up.


SID (AKSHAYE KHANNA)


The mature one of the lot. Always calm – Sameer knows that if Sid tells him something it is the right thing, and he trusts him always, which is why I believe they are in friendship. With respect to Akash – Sid, there is no real reason for friendship between them. They just like hanging out with each other. There are really no confrontations between them, until the first time it happens, and things go bad. Sid even says that he bears with all what Akash does, but there is a limit to everything. This was something inevitable, given their initial natures.
Sid is in search of something in his life, which he still doesn’t know about. It is definitely not his friendship with Akash or Sameer – not that he undervalues that – but that is not his main reason to be. He even tells this to them – that ultimately friends would go in their own directions.
Sid never really shares his feelings regularly with his friends, unlike Sameer and Akash (of course, Akash rarely has feelings to share). And none of his friends really know him. What he shows on the exterior is completely different from who he really is. He keeps things to himself. He never wants anything from the world. He just wants things to be the way they are. And he would make his own meaning to everything in world, even if it is completely unconventional – like his paintings. And for the first time, when someone actually uncovers the real Sid, he falls in love with her – another unconventional act. Another interesting thing about Sid’s character is that he seems to bond best with people in problems. Be it Dimple Kapadia or Deepa (who is rejected by Akash), he always is there for them. He likes supporting them, he likes to advice them, and he likes it when people feel better because of him. This might be because of an inherent insecurity in him since he is clearly not the cool guy from amongst the 3 friends, and looks for other means to make people believe in him.


SAMEER (SAIF ALI KHAN)


Egoless person, always going with the tide. Always keeps his feelings aside with friends, becoming the scapegoat so they all have fun. Even in his personal life, he is very unsure. He wants to believe that he is somebody, who he actually isn’t. He wants to appear like the fashionable dude, and in trying to do so, he always ends up making a fool of himself. Until he goes into a relationship which he doesn’t really intend to go into. Further, he is always a huge supporter of his friends. The only person who is always going to be there for you (When Dimple Kapadia is about to die, Sameer comes immediately to meet Sid – not because he wants to meet her, but because he wants to be with Sid at this time when he really needs support).
He has blind trust in his friends, and assumes they would all be like him. He tells Sid that Akash will be happy to meet you again, and that to him is more important than their past fights. However, that is how Sameer perceives things and not Akash. Sameer values his friendship far more than his long list of girlfriends. And it reflects in his behaviour each time. A clear sign of frustration can be seen in him when he talks to his girlfriends. On the other hand, despite knowing that Akash makes fun of him he doesn’t ever get frustrated with them – showing that he really doesn’t value his relationships with his previous girlfriends well – he sees it more as a status symbol than as a need.

SHALINI (PRIETY ZINTA)

Adaptive child. In fact she is an adopted child. And she shows it in every move of hers. She might actually have wanted to do a lot of things, but she is very reserved in her actions. And when Akash asks her to dance and misbehaves with her, she apologizes to him rather than just give him a tight slap! She is ready to marry Rohit just because her foster parents have taken care of her, and so she thinks she needs to do this to return the favour, Rohit being the foster parents’ actual child.
I relate a lot to this movie primarily because I can relate to most of the people in this movie – at some point in my life, I have been like each one of these people, depending on the situation, and just like the characters in this movie, I have also learnt from each of my life’s incidents, and become a more mature person, just as the film shows.