Dil Se...fanaaa...!!

Recently watched fanaa and felt a sense of deja vu and then realized that the experience of wathcing it was for me wathcing Dil Se yet again.
Dil Se was one movie i loved and I still remember coming out of the theatre after watching dil se with my friends and i was the only person in the group whi had liked the movie. While my friends were commenting about how it was very much a non-Maniratnam-style movie, i felt that it had all the elements that made it a vintage Mani Ratnam movie.
Fanaa brought back all those and even if we cannot compare Kunal Kohli to Mani Ratnam, you have to give credit to the director for making the movie watchable.Pitting fanaa against Dile Se is pitting 2 of the finest actors of our generation against yet another 2 exemplary actors.
The intensity of Manisha in Dil Se is matched by that of Aamir's performance and the playfulness and angst of Shahrukh is more than easily challenged by the superb performance of Kajol.
The youthful rendering of "Jiya Jale" fould a reflection in the equally captivating voice of Shaan in "Chaand sifarish" and The pathos of the song "Sat rangeere" and the yearnings of "Ae Ajnabi" have been tried to be matched by "Mere haath mein".
The background score for both the movies are haunting, yet another similarity between the two movies.You feel that the story kind of lost itself somewhere in the between in both the movies and they seem to have an abrupt ending.
All said and done, fanaa has become another of my favorite along with Dil Se....