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Straight from the Heart

Year:

1999

Duration:

UK:188 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.6

Director:

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Awards:

26 wins & 2 nominations

Details

Country: India

Release Date: 1999-06-18

Filming Locations: Bhuj, Gujarat, India

Earnings

Opening Weekend: £49,723 (UK) (20 June 1999)

Gross: £111,200 (UK) (27 June 1999)

Cast

Actor

Character

Salman Khan

Ajay Devgn

Vanraj

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Nandini (as Aishwarya Rai)

Zohra Segal

Dadi (as Zohra Sehgal)

Vikram Gokhale

Pundit Darbar

Smita Jaykar

Amrita

Rekha Rao

Kamna Pui

Rajeev Verma

Vikramjeet (Vanraj's dad)

Keneth Desai

Bhairav (as Kenneth Desai)

Ghanshyam Nayak

Vitthal Kaka (as Ghanshyam Naik)

Vinay Pathak

Tarun

Sheeba Chaddha

Anupama

Meenakshi Verma

Pushpa

Preeti Koppikar

Radha

Divya Jagdale

Sanjukta

Kanu Gill

Vanraj's mother

Ehsan Khan

Nilesh (as Ahsan Khan)

Atul Kumar Mittal

Kamlesh

Paresh Mokashi

Paresh

Jameel Khan

Nimesh

Dimple Inamdar

Shilpa

Canny Singh

Parul

Archana Gokhale

Kaushalya

Harry Paintal

Haresh

Akash Karnataki

Bharat

Amrik Gill

Panditji

Milind Ukey

Indian Musician

Helen

Mrs. Rafilini (Sameer's mom (special appearance)

István Wohlmuth

Photographer (as István Wohimuth)

Balázs Görgényl

Waiter

István Fekete

TC - 1

János Szentrimai

TC - 2

Magda Scheer

Teacher

Péter Pálfai

Bartender

Csilla Szabó

Fighting couple

János Perjés

Fighting couple

Coralie Roy

Doctor

Did you know?

Trivia

Due to a chandelier accident on the set, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan danced to "Nimbooda" while her feet were swollen.

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Bhansali and art director Nitin Desai toured Gujarat, Bhuj and Kutch to get the perfect locales and research the lifestyles and culture extensively. Due to this research, the sets designed were so good that Desai claims he got a letter from a filmmaking team in Canada asking which part of the country the location was in.

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For the lit-up acrylic floor in the garba song, Nitin Desai placed marigold flowers, which are traditionally offered in temples, under the acrylic sheets.

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Goofs

All of the scenes supposedly set in Italy are in Hungary - the signs are all in Hungarian, and the locals all speak Hungarian.

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Universal health care is offered in Italy to all citizens and visitors: a hospital there would not have refused to treat Nadini over lack of funds after she had been shot.

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When Nandini cuts her wrist, falls sideways and the blood trickles into the water you can see the device attached to the back of her arm that carries the fake blood.

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Quotes

Sameer: I only ask Nandini from you, but still you cannot grant it!

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Vanraj: Can I say something?

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Sameer: [to Nandini] If you keep looking at me that way, you will fall in love with me.

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