Movie review: Dil Se

A movie about two lover who have another object i.e. their country to love and hate simultaneously and how it folds out. cinematography is great and Santosh Sivan outshines this movie only in Ashoka. More importantly this is the only mainstream Hindi movie to best of my knowledge which has north east and laddakh as background. Old Delhi is also captured beautifully in terrorist hideout and old haveli in which shahrukh is living. Movie shows glimpses of loud Punjabi culture and Malayalam as well via beautiful wedding song. This was first movie to use stunning visuals of Kerala which can be easily an advertisement for kerala tourism. Discovery of movie was surely preity Zinta specially her looks after she comes to know about Manisha's relationship with Shahrukh. CBI officer fails to impress but terrorist ring leader is impressive and I imagine in real life it is how they are. ANother interesting character was AIR director of guwahati pretty close to working women who are lonely and are at top positions. Best part of movie as against other Hindi movies is both protagonists are confused and are constantly fighting a self conflict. MAnsiha tries to suppress her love while shahrukh does not want to doubt manisha even though he knows something is fishy. a great watch.