Dil To Pagal Hai (1997)

Star Power: Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Karisma Kapoor

Overall Rating: 5 out of 7 chilies

Music: 6.5 out of 7 chilies

Choreography: 5 out of 7 chilies

Summary:
Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) and Nisha (Karisma Kapoor) are best friends and the stars behind a successful dance troupe. When they finish their latest show in triumph, Rahul announces that their new show will have a new sound and a new name: Maya. Nisha and the other members of the troupe are astonished and when they ask him to explain, he says that Maya represents a kind of ideal, the kind of passionate, honest girl he has dreamed of. Nisha has a secret, however, which Rahul discovers while she is intoxicated after a party: she loves him.
    In another part of town, Pooja (Madhuri Dixit) is an orphaned young woman living with an older couple, friends of her parents. She has been brought up with their son, Ajay (Akshay Kumar) and she thinks of him as the best of friends, laughing and joking with each other all the time, even while he's off at work in England. She believes wholeheartedly in the idea of a soulmate, someone who is meant only for her, so when Ajay proposes to her on the eve of his departure, she is torn between her ideal and this man who has been so close to her all her life.
    Preparations for the new show are in full swing when an injury takes Nisha out of the show. Rahul is suddenly stuck for someone to play the lead role. A series of coincidences have brought Pooja and Rahul together briefly a few times before, but when he sees her dancing in the studio one night after everyone else has gone home, he offers her the chance to try for the part. As planning for the show continues and their relationship blossoms, they must both choose between the friends they do not want to hurt and a love they cannot deny...

Comments:
This movie is all-around fun with some big names and great music. Almost every song is catchy and memorable and the story is quite sweet, though the two soulmates didn't seem to have as much in common with each other as they did with their two friends. The choreography is very snappy, if performed in some seriously questionable clothing, especially in the song "Are re Are". All in all, very enjoyable - definitely a movie I would watch again!