less be more in farhan akhtar dil chahta hai . strip away melodramatic plot which always drag on long than they be suppose to . get rid of unbelievable protagonist who have all the answer and can fight off a horde of villain . have no villain to speak of and with the exception of the dude engage to the girl you fancy and who act like a bit of a prick . build a story about the people you spend most of the time with your friend and your dawgs and your posse and and ponder how you guy be go to sort out the really important thing in your life . like fall in love . crack on your friend who seem to fall for every girl he see . or your sensitive friend sid who be in love with a much old woman be he crazy . wince a two of your best friend get into a very heated argument which split them up and wonder what you will do now that youre catch in the middle . hope for love and friendship to find a way through to reconciliation . make a smart movie and without elaborate dance piece set to a sweet soundtrack that remain in the top 10 a year after the film release . in fact have a song that parody the run around tree segment that every other hindi film since the 1950s have have and that the guy at school use to kid about . i mean and guy do not express their love for girl that way . keep out gun and drug and politics and strife and and family melodrama . lace up your script with generous dos of humor which bring to light the hereunto underused saif ali khan . finally make sure the hero have show some growth at the end of it . of course it be do to death in la . that it could have be do so well in mumbai be the astonishing thing . finally and make reality cool again . whatever your hero wear and however they cut their hair and right down to the way they interact have to be believable . make short hair and a goatee beard the national craze amongst guy . put some real think into color coding and match outfit and give a laid back style to the proceeding . welcome dil chahta hai . the film that have have the large influence of the look and hopefully the story of the big bollywood film to follow it . a film that many people have be able to relate to . it seem so obvious until farhan akhtar do it . now watch how his idea permeate through bollywood . here look forward to don in 2006 .