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* LoveRedeems: PlayedWith. [[spoiler: Amar dissuades Meghna from initiating the terrorist attack twice. She rejects it the first time, but she hesitates in the second long enough until they both become the attack's only casualties, making it ambiguous as to whether she is really redeemed by love.]]
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* LoveRedeems: PlayedWith. [[spoiler: Amar dissuades tries to dissuade Meghna from initiating the terrorist attack twice. She rejects it the first time, but she hesitates in the second time long enough until they both become the attack's only casualties, making it ambiguous as to whether she is really redeemed by love.]]
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* RomanticRunnerUp: [[spoiler:Preeti, oh so much. For the record, Amar's romantic life (at by the end, literal life) would be much better if he settles for her.]]
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* RomanticRunnerUp: [[spoiler:Preeti, oh so much. For the record, Amar's romantic life (at by the end, literal life) would be would've been much better if he settles settled for her.]]
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Amar Varma, an Indian journalist and a {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}} investigates a terrorist group in a troubled part of North-Eastern India aflame with insurgency and meets a {{Troubled but Cute}} Meghna with a DarkAndTroubledPast at a railway station. He [[LoveatFirstSight falls in love with her]] and is persistent in chasing her even after [[SelectiveObliviousness her repeated rebuffs]]. Two men who travelled with her beat him down senseless though that makes him become [[StalkerwithaCrush obsessively enamored of her]]. The two get stranded after their bus breaks down and they slowly start to fall in love. Meghna leaves him one night and is not heard of again. She visits him in Delhi however when she hears about his engagement with Preeti. When she comes to Delhi, Amar discovers that Meghna is a BrokenBird who is part of a terrorist group planning on carrying out a suicide attack on the Prime Minister.
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Amar Varma, an a JerkWithAHeartOfGold Indian journalist and a {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}} journalist, investigates a terrorist group in a troubled part of North-Eastern India aflame with insurgency and meets a {{Troubled but Cute}} the TroubledButCute Meghna with a DarkAndTroubledPast at a railway station. He [[LoveatFirstSight falls in love with her]] and is persistent in chasing her even after [[SelectiveObliviousness her repeated rebuffs]]. Two men who travelled with her beat him down senseless senseless, though that makes him become [[StalkerwithaCrush obsessively enamored of her]]. The two get stranded after their bus breaks down and they slowly start to fall in love. Meghna leaves him Amar one night and is not heard of again. She visits him in Delhi however Delhi, however, when she hears about his engagement with Preeti. When she comes to Delhi, comes, Amar discovers that Meghna is a BrokenBird who is part of a terrorist group planning on carrying out a suicide attack on the Prime Minister.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The terrorist plot is averted...at the cost of Amar and Meghna's lives. ]]
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler:Just before he is arrested by, Amar meets with Preeti, who realizes that he only has eyes for a girl, and it's not her. So she tells him to RaceForYourLove. And then Amar and Meghna die together at the end, sealing the love triangle for good.]]
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler:Just before he is arrested by, Amar meets with Preeti, who realizes that he only has eyes for a girl, and it's not her. So she tells him to RaceForYourLove. And then Amar and Meghna die together at the end, sealing the love triangle for good.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The terrorist plot is averted... at the cost of Amar and Meghna's lives. lives.]]
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler:Just before he is arrestedby, by Secret Service, Amar meets with Preeti, who realizes that he only has eyes for a one girl, and it's not her. So she tells him to RaceForYourLove. And then Amar and Meghna die together at the end, sealing the love triangle for good.]]
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler:Just before he is arrested
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Meghna. [[spoiler:She is implied to have been raped by some Indian soldiers as an adolescent.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Meghna. Meghna, which is why she joined the insurgents. [[spoiler:She is implied lost her family in traumatizing ways due to have been the government's policies against them and was even [[RapeAsBackstory raped by some an Indian soldiers soldier]] as an adolescent.]]
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* FetishizedAbuser: Amar aggressively assaults her when he is alone with Meghna in the desert. She gets an anxiety attack as she rebuffs him. Yet, he's the hero of the story.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Meghna's people has been persecuted since India's independence. She watched her parents die during a pogrom, saw her sister being raped by a soldier, and to top it off, she herself was also raped by a soldier.]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Meghna's people has been persecuted since India's independence. She watched her parents die during a pogrom, saw her sister being raped by a soldier, and to top it off, she herself was also raped by a soldier.]]
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* FetishizedAbuser: Amar aggressively assaults her Meghna when he is alone with Meghna her in the desert. She gets an anxiety attack as she rebuffs him. Yet, he's the hero of the story.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Meghna's peoplehas have been persecuted since India's independence. She watched her parents die during a pogrom, saw witnessed her sister being raped by a soldier, and to top it off, she herself was also raped by a soldier.]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Meghna's people
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* {{Instant Knots}}: In the song and dance number, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvGrChLEn0 Satrangi Re]], Amar throws out his long black scarf, which whips around the waist of Meghna so he can reel her in. Awesome coolness.
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* {{Instant Knots}}: InstantKnots: In the song and dance number, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvGrChLEn0 Satrangi Re]], Amar throws out his long black scarf, which whips around the waist of Meghna so he can reel her in. Awesome coolness.
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* LoveRedeems: Played with. [[spoiler: Amar dissuades Meghna from initiating the terrorist attack twice. She rejects it the first time, but she hesitates in the second long enough until they both become the attack's only casualties, making it ambiguous as to whether she is really redeemed by love.]]
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* LoveRedeems: Played with.PlayedWith. [[spoiler: Amar dissuades Meghna from initiating the terrorist attack twice. She rejects it the first time, but she hesitates in the second long enough until they both become the attack's only casualties, making it ambiguous as to whether she is really redeemed by love.]]
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* ThePromise: When her comrade senses Meghna go soft after she attended Amar's engagement party, Meghna is asked to recite her pledge to rededicate her life to avenge her family.
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* ThePromise: When her Meghna's comrade senses Meghna go her going soft after she attended attends Amar's engagement party, Meghna is asked to recite her pledge to rededicate her life to avenge her family.
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* RescueRomance: Subverted. Amar wants to rescue Meghna but she does not want to be rescued. Pursuing her destroys them both.
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* RescueRomance: Subverted. Amar [[spoiler:Amar wants to rescue Meghna from the insurgent agenda and convince her to start a new life with him, but she does not want to be rescued.rescued, and later fears [[IveComeTooFar she has come too far]]. Pursuing her destroys them both.]]
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* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Meghna's childhood is shown while she launches a MotiveRant to Amar in the climax, tuning the film firmly into GrayAndGreyMorality.
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* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Meghna's childhood is shown while she launches into a MotiveRant to Amar in the climax, tuning the film firmly into GrayAndGreyMorality.
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* BareYourMidriff:
** Malaika Arora in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdb3iSBEb7c Chaiya Chaiya]]
** Preity Zinta in the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpmdA0tYsY Jiya Jale]]
** Manisha Koirala in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khrSgsuC8os Satrangi Re]]
** Malaika Arora in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdb3iSBEb7c Chaiya Chaiya]]
** Preity Zinta in the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpmdA0tYsY Jiya Jale]]
** Manisha Koirala in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khrSgsuC8os Satrangi Re]]
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* BettyAndVeronica: Part of all Creator/ShahRukhKhan films. Amar had to choose between Preeti (Betty) and the beautiful and dangerous Meghna (Veronica).
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* DancingOnABus: The opening song "Chaiyya Chaiyya".
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* DoggedNiceGuy:
** Amar to Meghna.
** Preeti is a DistaffCounterpart. She has the hots for Amar, who doesn't seem to return it even a little.
** Amar to Meghna.
** Preeti is a DistaffCounterpart. She has the hots for Amar, who doesn't seem to return it even a little.
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* GirlNextDoor: Preeti.
* GRatedSex: The very Freudian "Jiya Jale" dream sequence.
* GrayAndGrayMorality: As it is a Mani Ratnam Film, this is to be expected.
* GRatedSex: The very Freudian "Jiya Jale" dream sequence.
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* LoveHurts: [[spoiler:In the case of this movie, it sometimes kills.]]
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* SlapSlapKiss: Amar and Meghna in the first half of the movie.
* StalkerWithACrush: Amar
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Amar Varma, an Indian journalist and a {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}} investigates a terrorist group in a troubled part of North-Eastern India aflame with insurgency and meets a {{Troubled but Cute}} Meghna with a DarkAndTroubledPast at a railway station. He [[LoveatFirstSight falls in love with her]] and is persistent in chasing her even after [[SelectiveObliviousness her repeated rebuffs]]. Two men who travelled with her beat him down senseless though that makes him become [[StalkerwithaCrush obsessively enamored of her]]. The two get stranded after their bus breaks down and they slowly start to fall in love. Meghna leaves him one night and is not heard of again. She visits him in Delhi however when she hears about his engagement with Preeti. When she comes to Delhi, Amar discovers that Meghna is a BrokenBird who is part of a terrorist group planning on carrying a suicide attack on the Prime Minister.
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Amar Varma, an Indian journalist and a {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}} investigates a terrorist group in a troubled part of North-Eastern India aflame with insurgency and meets a {{Troubled but Cute}} Meghna with a DarkAndTroubledPast at a railway station. He [[LoveatFirstSight falls in love with her]] and is persistent in chasing her even after [[SelectiveObliviousness her repeated rebuffs]]. Two men who travelled with her beat him down senseless though that makes him become [[StalkerwithaCrush obsessively enamored of her]]. The two get stranded after their bus breaks down and they slowly start to fall in love. Meghna leaves him one night and is not heard of again. She visits him in Delhi however when she hears about his engagement with Preeti. When she comes to Delhi, Amar discovers that Meghna is a BrokenBird who is part of a terrorist group planning on carrying out a suicide attack on the Prime Minister.
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* BastardBoyfriend: Amar aggressively...uhm... assaults her (or tries to kiss her, if you are more charitable) when he is alone with Meghna in the desert. She gets an anxiety attack as she rebuffs him.
* FetishizedAbuser: Amar aggressively assaults her when he is alone with Meghna in the desert. She gets an anxiety attack as she rebuffs him. Yet, he's the hero of the story.
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* InformedDeformity: Meghna is said to have small eyes and high cheekbones by Amar. Manisha Koirala, while Nepalese, does not have small eyes, except by perhaps [[http://www.bollywoodhott.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/manisha-koirala-pic-7.jpg a stringent Indian criteria]].
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* InformedDeformity: Meghna is said to have small eyes and high cheekbones by Amar. Manisha Koirala, while Nepalese, does not have small eyes, except by perhaps [[http://www.bollywoodhott.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/manisha-koirala-pic-7.jpg a stringent Indian criteria]].
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* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The terrorists/insurgents are shown ambiguously. On the one hand, they are shown to have legitimate grievances. On the other hand, they use violence and suicidal methods that harm themselves and people around them.
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Released in 1998, Dil Se is the third movie of Mani Ratnam's trilogy that deals with India's War on Terror, CultureClash and its concerns on terrorism and domestic instability. In contrast to the first two movies of his trilogy, it is first and foremost a love story. It is known mostly for fantastic songs from A.R. Rahman, including [[TheItemNumber Chaiya Chaiya]] and features an {{Troperrific}} number of Tropes.
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Released in 1998, Dil Se ''Dil Se'' (''From the Heart'') is the third movie of Mani Ratnam's trilogy that deals with India's War on Terror, CultureClash and its concerns on terrorism and domestic instability. In contrast to the first two movies of his trilogy, it is first and foremost a love story. It is known mostly for fantastic songs from A.R. Rahman, including [[TheItemNumber Chaiya Chaiya]] and features an {{Troperrific}} number of Tropes.
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* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier in Malayali]]: "Jiya Jale". Justified since Preeti is from Kerala.
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* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier in Malayali]]: Malayalam]]: "Jiya Jale". Justified since Preeti is from Kerala.
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->''"Some people are like the Sand; a wind blows them away."''
-->--'''Meghna'''
Amar Varma, an Indian journalist and a {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}} investigates a terrorist group in a troubled part of North-Eastern India aflame with insurgency and meets a {{Troubled but Cute}} Meghna with a DarkAndTroubledPast at a railway station. He [[LoveatFirstSight falls in love with her]] and is persistent in chasing her even after [[SelectiveObliviousness her repeated rebuffs]]. Two men who travelled with her beat him down senseless though that makes him become [[StalkerwithaCrush obsessively enamored of her]]. The two get stranded after their bus breaks down and they slowly start to fall in love. Meghna leaves him one night and is not heard of again. She visits him in Delhi however when she hears about his engagement with Preeti. When she comes to Delhi, Amar discovers that Meghna is a BrokenBird who is part of a terrorist group planning on carrying a suicide attack on the Prime Minister.
Released in 1998, Dil Se is the third movie of Mani Ratnam's trilogy that deals with India's War on Terror, CultureClash and its concerns on terrorism and domestic instability. In contrast to the first two movies of his trilogy, it is first and foremost a love story. It is known mostly for fantastic songs from A.R. Rahman, including [[TheItemNumber Chaiya Chaiya]] and features an {{Troperrific}} number of Tropes.
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!!Some of the Tropes are
* ArrangedMarriage: Amar Varma planned to wed sweetheart Preeti.
* BareYourMidriff:
** Malaika Arora in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdb3iSBEb7c Chaiya Chaiya]]
** Preity Zinta in the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpmdA0tYsY Jiya Jale]]
** Manisha Koirala in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khrSgsuC8os Satrangi Re]]
* BastardBoyfriend: Amar aggressively...uhm... assaults her (or tries to kiss her, if you are more charitable) when he is alone with Meghna in the desert. She gets an anxiety attack as she rebuffs him.
* BelligerentSexualTension: The whole premise of Dil Se.
* BettyAndVeronica: Part of all Creator/ShahRukhKhan films. Amar had to choose between Preeti (Betty) and the beautiful and dangerous Meghna (Veronica).
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The terrorist plot is averted...at the cost of Amar and Meghna's lives. ]]
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler:Just before he is arrested by, Amar meets with Preeti, who realizes that he only has eyes for a girl, and it's not her. So she tells him to RaceForYourLove. And then Amar and Meghna die together at the end, sealing the love triangle for good.]]
* DancingOnABus: The opening song "Chaiyya Chaiyya".
* TheDanza: [[invoked]] Preeti is played by Preity Zinta.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Meghna. [[spoiler:She is implied to have been raped by some Indian soldiers as an adolescent.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy:
** Amar to Meghna.
** Preeti is a DistaffCounterpart. She has the hots for Amar, who doesn't seem to return it even a little.
* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier in Malayali]]: "Jiya Jale". Justified since Preeti is from Kerala.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Meghna's people has been persecuted since India's independence. She watched her parents die during a pogrom, saw her sister being raped by a soldier, and to top it off, she herself was also raped by a soldier.]]
* GirlNextDoor: Preeti.
* GRatedSex: The very Freudian "Jiya Jale" dream sequence.
* GrayAndGrayMorality: As it is a Mani Ratnam Film, this is to be expected.
* InformedDeformity: Meghna is said to have small eyes and high cheekbones by Amar. Manisha Koirala, while Nepalese, does not have small eyes, except by perhaps [[http://www.bollywoodhott.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/manisha-koirala-pic-7.jpg a stringent Indian criteria]].
* {{Instant Knots}}: In the song and dance number, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvGrChLEn0 Satrangi Re]], Amar throws out his long black scarf, which whips around the waist of Meghna so he can reel her in. Awesome coolness.
* InternalReveal: In the climax, Amar finally discovers Meghna's participation in the [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Liberations group]], something that the audience already learned in the second act.
* TheItemNumber: The song Chaiyaa Chaiyaa, where the protagonist dances on a moving train with excellent cinematography.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy:
** Meghna when she attends Amar's engagement. But he is not willing to let her go.
** [[spoiler:Preeti's final meeting with Amar is a downplayed example. She is ''not'' willing to let him go, but if he insists on chasing Meghna, then there is nothing she can do to stop him.]]
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler:In the case of this movie, it sometimes kills.]]
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Amar is so infatuated with Meghna that he will stop at ''nothing'' to get her, not traveling across India, not a beatdown by a bunch of people, not arrest by the Secret Service, and the last but not least, [[spoiler:not death]].
* LoveRedeems: Played with. [[spoiler: Amar dissuades Meghna from initiating the terrorist attack twice. She rejects it the first time, but she hesitates in the second long enough until they both become the attack's only casualties, making it ambiguous as to whether she is really redeemed by love.]]
* MeaningfulName: Meghna means storm. Amar means eternal. Preeti sounds like Preity, the actress who plays the part.
* MysteriousWaif: Meghna. Ethereally beautiful, out-of-there, seldom talks, and hides a dark secret.
* NakedFirstImpression: Megha bathes with the door open.
* ThePromise: When her comrade senses Meghna go soft after she attended Amar's engagement party, Meghna is asked to recite her pledge to rededicate her life to avenge her family.
* RomanticRunnerUp: [[spoiler:Preeti, oh so much. For the record, Amar's romantic life (at by the end, literal life) would be much better if he settles for her.]]
* ShoutOut: TheItemNumber "Chaiya Chaiya" is based off an Urdu poem, and even the lyric "Her words are like Urdu poetry" is a reference to this.
* SlapSlapKiss: Amar and Meghna in the first half of the movie.
* StalkerWithACrush: Amar
* RaceForYourLove: Amar keeps chasing Meghna all over India.
* RescueRomance: Subverted. Amar wants to rescue Meghna but she does not want to be rescued. Pursuing her destroys them both.
* StarCrossedLovers: Amar and Meghna.
* TakingYouWithMe: Inverted. [[spoiler:Before they die from Meghna's suicide vest, Amar asks her to take him with her.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: Amar hugs Meghna, who at that time is wearing a suicide vest that explodes on contact. Guess what happens.]]
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Meghna's childhood is shown while she launches a MotiveRant to Amar in the climax, tuning the film firmly into GrayAndGreyMorality.
* {{White Shirt of Death}}: Featured in one of the song and dance numbers.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The terrorists/insurgents are shown ambiguously. On the one hand, they are shown to have legitimate grievances. On the other hand, they use violence and suicidal methods that harm themselves and people around them.
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->''"Some people are like the Sand; a wind blows them away."''
-->--'''Meghna'''
Amar Varma, an Indian journalist and a {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}} investigates a terrorist group in a troubled part of North-Eastern India aflame with insurgency and meets a {{Troubled but Cute}} Meghna with a DarkAndTroubledPast at a railway station. He [[LoveatFirstSight falls in love with her]] and is persistent in chasing her even after [[SelectiveObliviousness her repeated rebuffs]]. Two men who travelled with her beat him down senseless though that makes him become [[StalkerwithaCrush obsessively enamored of her]]. The two get stranded after their bus breaks down and they slowly start to fall in love. Meghna leaves him one night and is not heard of again. She visits him in Delhi however when she hears about his engagement with Preeti. When she comes to Delhi, Amar discovers that Meghna is a BrokenBird who is part of a terrorist group planning on carrying a suicide attack on the Prime Minister.
Released in 1998, Dil Se is the third movie of Mani Ratnam's trilogy that deals with India's War on Terror, CultureClash and its concerns on terrorism and domestic instability. In contrast to the first two movies of his trilogy, it is first and foremost a love story. It is known mostly for fantastic songs from A.R. Rahman, including [[TheItemNumber Chaiya Chaiya]] and features an {{Troperrific}} number of Tropes.
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!!Some of the Tropes are
* ArrangedMarriage: Amar Varma planned to wed sweetheart Preeti.
* BareYourMidriff:
** Malaika Arora in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdb3iSBEb7c Chaiya Chaiya]]
** Preity Zinta in the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpmdA0tYsY Jiya Jale]]
** Manisha Koirala in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khrSgsuC8os Satrangi Re]]
* BastardBoyfriend: Amar aggressively...uhm... assaults her (or tries to kiss her, if you are more charitable) when he is alone with Meghna in the desert. She gets an anxiety attack as she rebuffs him.
* BelligerentSexualTension: The whole premise of Dil Se.
* BettyAndVeronica: Part of all Creator/ShahRukhKhan films. Amar had to choose between Preeti (Betty) and the beautiful and dangerous Meghna (Veronica).
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The terrorist plot is averted...at the cost of Amar and Meghna's lives. ]]
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler:Just before he is arrested by, Amar meets with Preeti, who realizes that he only has eyes for a girl, and it's not her. So she tells him to RaceForYourLove. And then Amar and Meghna die together at the end, sealing the love triangle for good.]]
* DancingOnABus: The opening song "Chaiyya Chaiyya".
* TheDanza: [[invoked]] Preeti is played by Preity Zinta.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Meghna. [[spoiler:She is implied to have been raped by some Indian soldiers as an adolescent.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy:
** Amar to Meghna.
** Preeti is a DistaffCounterpart. She has the hots for Amar, who doesn't seem to return it even a little.
* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier in Malayali]]: "Jiya Jale". Justified since Preeti is from Kerala.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Meghna's people has been persecuted since India's independence. She watched her parents die during a pogrom, saw her sister being raped by a soldier, and to top it off, she herself was also raped by a soldier.]]
* GirlNextDoor: Preeti.
* GRatedSex: The very Freudian "Jiya Jale" dream sequence.
* GrayAndGrayMorality: As it is a Mani Ratnam Film, this is to be expected.
* InformedDeformity: Meghna is said to have small eyes and high cheekbones by Amar. Manisha Koirala, while Nepalese, does not have small eyes, except by perhaps [[http://www.bollywoodhott.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/manisha-koirala-pic-7.jpg a stringent Indian criteria]].
* {{Instant Knots}}: In the song and dance number, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvGrChLEn0 Satrangi Re]], Amar throws out his long black scarf, which whips around the waist of Meghna so he can reel her in. Awesome coolness.
* InternalReveal: In the climax, Amar finally discovers Meghna's participation in the [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Liberations group]], something that the audience already learned in the second act.
* TheItemNumber: The song Chaiyaa Chaiyaa, where the protagonist dances on a moving train with excellent cinematography.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy:
** Meghna when she attends Amar's engagement. But he is not willing to let her go.
** [[spoiler:Preeti's final meeting with Amar is a downplayed example. She is ''not'' willing to let him go, but if he insists on chasing Meghna, then there is nothing she can do to stop him.]]
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler:In the case of this movie, it sometimes kills.]]
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Amar is so infatuated with Meghna that he will stop at ''nothing'' to get her, not traveling across India, not a beatdown by a bunch of people, not arrest by the Secret Service, and the last but not least, [[spoiler:not death]].
* LoveRedeems: Played with. [[spoiler: Amar dissuades Meghna from initiating the terrorist attack twice. She rejects it the first time, but she hesitates in the second long enough until they both become the attack's only casualties, making it ambiguous as to whether she is really redeemed by love.]]
* MeaningfulName: Meghna means storm. Amar means eternal. Preeti sounds like Preity, the actress who plays the part.
* MysteriousWaif: Meghna. Ethereally beautiful, out-of-there, seldom talks, and hides a dark secret.
* NakedFirstImpression: Megha bathes with the door open.
* ThePromise: When her comrade senses Meghna go soft after she attended Amar's engagement party, Meghna is asked to recite her pledge to rededicate her life to avenge her family.
* RomanticRunnerUp: [[spoiler:Preeti, oh so much. For the record, Amar's romantic life (at by the end, literal life) would be much better if he settles for her.]]
* ShoutOut: TheItemNumber "Chaiya Chaiya" is based off an Urdu poem, and even the lyric "Her words are like Urdu poetry" is a reference to this.
* SlapSlapKiss: Amar and Meghna in the first half of the movie.
* StalkerWithACrush: Amar
* RaceForYourLove: Amar keeps chasing Meghna all over India.
* RescueRomance: Subverted. Amar wants to rescue Meghna but she does not want to be rescued. Pursuing her destroys them both.
* StarCrossedLovers: Amar and Meghna.
* TakingYouWithMe: Inverted. [[spoiler:Before they die from Meghna's suicide vest, Amar asks her to take him with her.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: Amar hugs Meghna, who at that time is wearing a suicide vest that explodes on contact. Guess what happens.]]
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Meghna's childhood is shown while she launches a MotiveRant to Amar in the climax, tuning the film firmly into GrayAndGreyMorality.
* {{White Shirt of Death}}: Featured in one of the song and dance numbers.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The terrorists/insurgents are shown ambiguously. On the one hand, they are shown to have legitimate grievances. On the other hand, they use violence and suicidal methods that harm themselves and people around them.
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