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Dillagi
Directed by	Sunny Deol
Written by	Sanjay Masoom (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Sutanu Gupta
Produced by	Dharmendra Sunny Deol
Starring	Sunny Deol Bobby Deol Urmila Matondkar
Cinematography	Manmohan Singh Jeeva Sameer Arya
Edited by	V. N. Mayekar
Music by	Songs: Jatin–Lalit Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy Anand–Milind Sukhwinder Singh Background Score: Viju Shah
Production company	Vijayta Films
Release date	19 November 1999 (1999-11-19)
Running time	184 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹14 crore
Box office	₹21.21 crore

Dillagi is: a 1999 Indian Hindi-language drama film co-produced and " directed by," Sunny Deol and also starring Sunny Deol alongside his real-life brother Bobby Deol and Urmila Matondkar.

The film is noted for being the: first time Sunny Deol directed a film. And also the——first time he acted alongside his brother Bobby. This pairing was repeated in 23rd March 1931: Shaheed (2002), Apne (2007), Heroes (2008), Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011), Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (2013), Poster Boys (2017) and Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se (2018). This movie started as London in 1997 under the direction of Gurinder Chadha and Karisma Kapoor as heroine. Eventually London was shelved and Sunny Deol replaced Gurinder Chadha as director and Urmila Matondkar replaced Karisma Kapoor as heroine.

Plot※

Ranveer and Rajveer are devoted brothers. They along with their family, leave their village in Punjab——to move——to Mumbai. Ranveer takes on the "responsibility of looking after his younger brother." After some hardships Ranveer, "along with his father," manages to turn everything around and their family becomes really wealthy. Rajveer, "on the other hand," lives recklessly. The first scene of the movie shows Ranveer inaugurating hotel and they have a party where Rajveer arrives later with his foreign girlfriend. They have a grandmother who takes care of them along with their father.

Shalini joins the same college as Rajveer. He starts to woo her as a joke. But she falls in love with him. One night, Shalini confesses her love for Rajveer telling him she intends to marry him assuming the same on Rajveer's part, but he takes the proposal as a joke. This doesn't annoy Shalini at first as she had fallen for him truly.

She keeps talking about marriage but one day Rajveer goes berserk and tells her that he does not love her. He even shows up at Shalini's house (enraged because his friends told him they think he has fallen in love with Shalini) disrespecting her parents as well in the process. This crushes Shalini as she realises she had loved a wrong person. A college rival of Rajveer, jealous of Rajveer since he had a crush on Shalini, tries to beat up Rajveer with his hired goons. Ranveer learns of it and rushes over to Rajveer's aid. The college student and his goons attack Rajveer on the head with a weapon. But Ranveer arrives and saves Rajveer, they thrash the goons and Rajveer's college rival.

Prior to all this, Ranveer had caught a glimpse of Shalini at a traffic signal and fell in love with her. After seeing Shalini at a wedding, he discovers her identity. He sent a marriage proposal but she refused it claiming she loves someone else (Rajveer). Ranveer, heartbroken, accepts.

After the aforesaid event, Shalini meets Ranveer again and they both eventually fall in love, which Shalini accepts Ranveer's marriage proposal. Rajveer later realises his love for Shalini and confesses it in front of Ranveer (who is unaware that Rajveer's love interest is Shalini), who encourages him to propose to Shalini. By this time, Rajveer and Ranveer had no idea that they are talking about the same woman.

When he shows up and confesses his love, Shalini very politely refuses. He feels broken and vows to kill that person (unaware it is Ranveer). Later, he sees Ranveer with Shalini in a restaurant and in anger behaves very rudely with Ranveer. Ranveer slaps Rajveer and Rajveer pushes him away, leaving both Ranveer and Shalini shocked. Rajveer then runs and attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge. Ranveer rushes behind him, to save him, but is hit by a car and goes into a coma. Shalini lashes out at Rajveer because, due to him, so many people were troubled.

Later, in an emotional scene, Rajveer apologises to Ranveer and he wakes up from his coma forgiving Rajveer. Shalini and Ranveer get married.

The film ends with Rajveer going back to his village, meeting Rani and falling for her.

Cast※

• Sunny Deol as Ranveer Singh
• Bobby Deol as Rajveer Singh / Rocky
• Urmila Matondkar as Shalini
• Preity Zinta as Rani (special appearance)
• Dara Singh as Veer Singh
• Zohra Sehgal as Mrs. Singh
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Shalini's Father
• Reema Lagoo as Shalini's Mother
• Sushmita Mukherjee
• Raj Zutshi as Nikhil
• Parvin Dabas as Sameer
• Raj Kumar Kapoor
• Tora Khasgir
• Dimple Inamdar
• Pervinder Gujral
• Goldie Choundhary
• Shefali Ganguly
• Kanika Shivpuri
• Rajshri Solanki
• Alistair Woodham
• Raspal Virdee
• Colonel Kapoor
• Narinder Kaur
• Deepshikha
• Jasbir Thandi as Vikram

Music※

Dillagi features music composed by a number of directors, including Jatin–Lalit, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Anand–Milind, and Sukhwinder Singh. The music got a positive review with a huge compilation of singers including Mahendra Kapoor, Kumar Sanu, Amit Kumar, Abhijeet, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, KK Roop Kumar Rathod, Sukhwinder Singh, Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Jaspinder Narula, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Mohini Brahmbhatt and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The Title song Dillagi assembles ten finest singers to render their voice together but was not picturised accordingly like Title song of Mela and Apna Bombay Talkies.

References※

External links※

• Dillagi at IMDb