The first half of the movie remains a hauntingly beautiful love story laced with incredibly choreographed songs. Santosh Sivan and Farah Khan have never been able to better their performances even in their own productions.With a deadly music and lyric combination of Gulzar and Rehman, Mani Ratnam should have struck gold in a big way. However the Indian Cine goers decided otherwise. Unfortunately. Perhaps Dil Se was a film ahead of its time. Even for the actors, Shah Ruklha and Manisha, it remains one of their top three performances. Hats off to the entire Dil Se team for creating a close-to-real-life cinema in the days of Candy floss stuff. A shortened second half or a happy ending was perhaps what audience were expecting but that would have wasted the entire concept of Dil Se.