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The filmmaker was 27 when “Dil Chahta Hai” released and quickly became a movie that resonated with the audience who had grown up on a staple diet of the larger-than-life, dramatic films of the ‘90s. I have not thought about that at all, to be honest,” he said. “There was never a point where I thought, let’s discover where these three characters are 20 years later. In an interview with PTI, Farhan said, unlike American filmmaker Richard Linklater’s romantic film trilogy “Before”, which follows the story of its lead characters after every nine years, he has no plans to chronicle where his characters are today.
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The coming-of-age drama, also starring Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni and Dimple Kapadia, marked Farhan’s directorial debut and is regarded as a benchmark film on friendship. Released on August 10, 2001, the film featured superstar Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Akshaye Khanna as three friends, focusing on the ups and downs in their equations with different approaches towards love and life. For two decades, fans have wondered whether their favourite on-screen friends, Akash, Sid and Sameer from “Dil Chahta Hai” would reunite, this time perhaps to discuss mid-life crisis, but filmmaker Farhan Akhtar says he has not thought about continuing the film’s storyline.