The 2 versions have clearly different color correction/temperature if the pics are accurate. The older is much warmer. So at least they redid the colors.

I am soo getting this. It's been quite a few years since I last saw this film in good form in it's entirety.

thats what precisely, I was trying to convey, it is not simple repacked, it has been reprocessed/reauthored, by spark, packaged with elite etc

and I think warmer tones and better contrast is with newer version per stated by stephen.

Let me join the party and say i will def be getting this one - any retailor stocking this in the US - DU ???

Amazing Mis-en-Scene (Thank You Stephen )

How's the SQ on this Stephen?

Yes, the colours are much more natural (less pinkish) on the Elite DVD. I thought some scenes were a touch too dark, but overall the picture's a lot more pleasing than the Spark DVD.



Sounded pretty good to me. I noticed some mild distortions in the audio of the Spark 1-disc reissue, but didn't hear any in the Elite DVD.

The old version had some shots with ugly compression problems due to low bit rate. Has this been fixed?

There's a few instances of MPEG artefacts popping up, but nowhere near as bad as the Spark reissue - the 'Jaane Kyon' song in particular looks much better. I haven't got the original two-disc edition though, so I can't compare it with that.

Earlier tonight, after a number of years, possibly since it's release in 2001, I saw Dil Chahta Hai once again from start-to-finish on a no giltch, improved Elite DVD. I just love this film more in it's second viewing. There are just soo many perfectly captured, astoundingly beautiful moments throughout. The scene when Akash unconsciously dials Sid's house number(with the wonderfully expressionistic use of light and shadow in his room) and asking for Sameer. The scene when after their roller-coaster ride, Akash and Shalini race down the stairs of the subway station, only Akash races ahead to reach inside the sub-train, while the doors close just before Shalini could catch up to Akash, separating the two apart at the peak of their togetherness(temporarily of course). But still, both Preity and Aamir were competely heartbreaking. Oh, and, of course, of course, the final moments between Siddharth & Tara at the hospital is beyond sublime: I am at a loss to think of a character in a fiction film more fully fleshed-out and seemingly real than Siddharth. This is one of the most heartbreakingly honest scenes I've ever seen in a movie. It's not at all histrionic or overacted--it feels so painfully genuine. It's one of the most difficult things, I think, for people to speak frankly about the disappointments of their lives; they'd rather not think about them, and just make do with how things are, for better or worse. Akshay Khanna perfectly-delivered a devastated Siddharth.

I am now convinced that Dil Chahta Hai constitutes a high-water mark of the past quarter-century of Bollywood moviemaking. It's a masterpiece in it's own right.

I feel exactly the same way about DIL CHAHTA HAI.

You could not have put it any better

It’s been a while and I don’t even remember the entire movie but from what I remember I didn’t think much of DCH when I watched it. I’d say it’s a forgettable movie, errr especially since I’ve forgotten most it anyway

But I’m quite fascinated to watch it again as it's so highly rated here. Might 'acquire' it

Ali

You are spot on which is why i considered this one of the best films in last 5 years ( prob more if you had given bigger time period - remember your thread )

i belong to the camp which considers Bollywood a derogatory term esp. for such good films, so from now on i request zulmies ( and others alike) to start referring to "good" films as "Indian Cinema ".

Heres to better films from the so called Gen-X film makers ( Khasyap - i hope you are reading this !)

DVD Collector, may I ask where you got your copy from. Did you get it from Indiaweekly?

I actually picked it up at a store called "Video Palace" on Airport Rd. in Missessaga(it's near by my workplace). They had about half a dozen of the Elite version of the film in stock for $8.99.(I know it seems ridiculous to pay that much since Indiaweekly has it for $5.99, but quite honestly, I was blood thirsty for this film).