| Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa | |
| Director: | Atul Agnihotri |
| Producer: | Sunil Manchanda Mukesh Talreja |
| Story: | Atul Agnihotri |
| Screenplay: | Alok Upadhyaya Purnendu Shekhar |
| Based On: | Return to Me (2000) |
| Starring: | Salman Khan Preity Zinta Bhumika Chawla |
| Music: | Songs: A. R. Rahman Himesh Reshammiya Background Score: Bikram Vicckey Goswami |
| Cinematography: | Kishore Kapadia Stephen Fernandes |
| Editing: | Keshav Naidu |
| Studio: | Orion Pictures MAD Entertainment Ltd. Reel Life Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. |
| Runtime: | 135 minutes |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Country: | India |
| Budget: | 11 crore[1] |
| Gross: | 13.54 crore |
Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language film starring Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, Bhumika Chawla, Delnaaz Paul, Riya Sen and Helen. It is an unofficial adaptation of the American film Return to Me (2000). The film had a poor opening and proved to be unsuccessful at the box office.
Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa begins with Rishabh (Salman Khan) and Pari (Preity Zinta), who are deeply in love. He is a wealthy young man, working in an advertising agency, and she is a hardworking, dedicated doctor. They marry, and soon Pari is pregnant. Pari has a dream to create a hospital for children known as Parilok (fairyland). Tragically, she is involved in an accident and dies in hospital. Pari's last wish was to donate her heart to her patient Dhani (Bhumika Chawla). Rishabh is devastated and opposes the plan to donate the heart; he goes ahead with Pari's last request: the creation of Parilok.
Dhani is cured, much to the joy of her family and her grandmother (Helen). Rishabh has gone into depression but soon comes across Pari's project to build Parilok. He begins to develop the project with the aid of his brother-in-law RT, and his peers. Soon enough, Rishabh and Dhani come across each other now that she works in his agency, and she feels an instant attraction to him. Rishabh becomes disgruntled and ignores her advances as he is still very much in love with Pari. By the time the early concepts for the Parilok hospital come in, Rishabh snaps at Dhani after she disapproves of the designs of the hospital. RT tries to get through with Rishabh’s miserableness and questions why he snapped at Dhani. RT explains Rishabh’s bitterness to Dhani and tells her that Pari had donated her heart to her. Rishabh does not know that Pari's heart was given to Dhani, but soon he realizes that. Rishabh feels that he’s always responsible for someone’s death. Pari’s especially. His sister tells him that God must have given him the chance to love Pari again through Dhani. She gives him two choices: either to accept Dhani through Pari’s heart or let her die. Rishabh agrees to accept this fate. While she is in the hospital, with doctors struggling to restart her broken heart, he falls in love with her. He tells her that he loves her, and if she loves him, she will pull through. She does, and the two get together.
Aishwarya Rai as well as Amrita Rao were considered for the lead role in this debut directorial of Atul Agnihotri.[2]
The film had a poor opening at the box office and in the end only grossed ₹7 crore.[3]
A. R. Rahman was signed as the music composer. He had composed three tracks and an instrumental, and left the project as he got busy with the stage adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Meanwhile Himesh Reshammiya was signed to quickly compose the rest of the tracks.
| Dil Ne Jise Apna Kaha | |
| Type: | soundtrack |
| Artist: | A. R. Rahman & Himesh Reshammiya |
| Released: | 7 August 2004 (India) |
| Recorded: | Panchathan Record Inn |
| Genre: | Feature film soundtrack |
| Length: | 41:03 |
| Label: | T-Series |
| Chronology: | A. R. Rahman |
| Prev Title: | Naani |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | Swades |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
| Song | Artist(s) | Composer | Lyricist | Length | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Dil Ne Jise Apna Kaha" | Sujata Trivedi, Kamaal Khan | A. R. Rahman | Mehboob | 06:18 | |
| 2 | "Bindiya Chamakne Lagi" | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | Himesh Reshammiya | Sameer | 06:22 | |
| 3 | "Yeh Dil To Mila Hai" | Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik | Himesh Reshammiya | Sameer | 05:32 | |
| 4 | "Jaane Bahara" | Kamaal Khan, Sadhana Sargam | A. R. Rahman | Mehboob | 05:14 | |
| 5 | "Go Balle Balle" | KK, Alisha Chinoy, Jayesh Gandhi | Himesh Reshammiya | Sameer | 05:00 | |
| 6 | "Zindagi Hai Dua" | Pamela Jain, Madhushree, Gayatri Iyer, Karthik | A. R. Rahman | Mehboob | 05:25 | |
| 7 | "Meri Nas Nas Mein" | Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik | Himesh Reshammiya | Sameer | 05:36 | |
| 8 | "Dil Ne Jise Apna Kaha (Instrumental)" | Instrumental | A. R. Rahman | Instrumental | 02:20 |