In comparison to the empty, soulless, 'special effects' rubbish cranked out of bottom-line-Hollywood year after year, I loved DIL SE, yes, with all my heart. The pursuit of his elusive beloved - to the death - is not about some lovesick fool, but rather reflects the underlying universal reality of all our lives and what it means to be human, to long for something that seems to be always somehow beyond us.
Here Mani Ratnam expresses something deeper, something eternal about the human condition itself – the essence of what drives us all, the space that allows us the adventure into the unknown. Without this distance, I would have no excuse to get close.’ Isn’t this the relationship that we all have with the eternally silent, sphinx-like Cosmos? He says: ‘I like this distance between us the best. He tells her that he likes ‘very much’ that he can read nothing in her eyes, that there is so much hidden in her. Intense close-ups fill the screen and invite us to journey into their eyes, their tender smiles, and subtle expressions. Alone at last with his beloved, for one sweet moment our love-struck hero melts her icy defenses. The unforgettable night scene up in the mountains set to haunting music and bathed in transcendental blue light is a cinematic classic. This extreme aberrant of the human experience is used as a dramatic environment to allow Mani Ratnam a creative ‘tour de force’ to reveal one of life’s great mysteries: Our eternal sense of separation and longing. I don’t believe this film is about terrorism. Who is my evening, my night, my resurrection. There's a friend who is like a sweet fragrance, The words to the Rahman song CHAIYYA CHAIYYA and others are very Sufi:įeet jingling (i.e., with anklets), walk in the shadow. Like so many millions, I love Rahman’s music! Rahman, also a genius, is acknowledged by musicians everywhere as one of the truly great composers of music in our times. People – like me - sang them even when they couldn’t understand the Hindi lyrics. Their Sacred Union is immutable.ĪR Rahman wrote the music in this film and the songs were enormously popular all around the world.
At the end of DIL SE, the Soul has become ONE with the Beloved. The idea that the soul must give up everything - including it's own illusory existence - to God is an idea found in both Sufism, Hinduism's Bhakti Yoga, and Christian mysticism. It is my feeling that his relationship with this girl is purely metaphorical for the soul's ultimate surrender to God. He has no idea that she is a terrorist and loses himself in love to her completely. The hero falls in love with a girl he sees by chance one night in a lonely rural railway station. Most viewers think of DIL SE as a love story, but I saw it as the perfect metaphor for the Soul’s surrender to God. Ratnam is right up there with the all time best: Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Red Desert, Bernado Bertolucci’s The Conformist, and Francois Truffaut’s The Four Hundred Blows. DIL SE: A Metaphor for the Soul’s Surrender to the God-withinĭestined to be a classic, DIL SE is a truly brilliant beautiful film by Mani Ratnam, a creative genius and one of the greatest living film directors – and not just in India.
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