India Synopsis
दिल से..
Journalist Amar falls for a mysterious woman on an assignment, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar is about to get married, the woman shows up at his doorstep asking for help.
Audience Engagement
151 audience reviews — more than 95% of India films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 91th percentile among India films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Dil Se... Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From RGV Film Factory
Drama + Romance in India
356 India titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Romance genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Dil Se.. itself).
The 1997–1999 India Window
Dil Se.. holds position #14 of 55 India films in the 1997–1999 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1990s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in India, 147 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Dil Se.. premiered alongside 17 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 43m runtime, production spent $32K per minute on screen and earned $80K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 17 other India films in 1998.
The 263rd India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Dil Se.., grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- suicide bomber · 2
- war trauma · 2
- terrorist bombing · 1
- cyanide pill · 1
- left · 1
- bomb · 15
- terrorist attack · 9
- sexuality · 7
- love at first sight · 6
- love · 123
- terrorism · 47
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #599 of 1,983 India films indexed here (70th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.5 points above the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Drama productions specifically: #421 of 1,132 (top 37%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Hindi |
| Spoken Languages | Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil |
| Production Companies | RGV Film Factory, Madras Talkies |
| Runtime | 2h 43m |
| Release Date | August 22, 1998 |
| IMDb | tt0164538 |