Sonali Kulkarni Recalls Chance Encounter Behind Dil Chahta Hai Role

Dil Chahta Hai is a very famous Hindi movie that just turned 25 years old.

It was the first movie directed by a filmmaker named Farhan Akhtar.

An actress named Sonali Kulkarni is in the movie.

She told a newspaper how she got the part, and her story sounds like a movie scene.

Someone was carrying her photos, and the photos fell to the ground.

A filmmaker named Zoya Akhtar saw the fallen pictures and remembered Sonali's earlier movies.

Zoya invited Sonali to an office to try out for the movie.

There, they made up a scene together, and Sonali got the part.

Sonali says everyone on the set was young, happy, and very prepared.

She did not know at the time that the movie would one day become a classic that people still love.