The title Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar (Don't Take It To Heart) summarizes the attitude
of the film. Life is unpredictable. Anything can happen in our scheme of things.
Your wife can leave you, you can go bankrupt, and you can feel like committing
suicide because of incidents in your life. It is a fun film that takes a
slightly different look at various layers of life in city like Mumbai through
the eyes of Ram Saran (Manoj Bajpai), a garage mechanic who hails from a small
town. The film is also about his interaction with the different layers of
society that is prevalent in the city. One layer is represented by Kaamya (Tabu),
who is a journalist and represents the upper middle class; the upwardly mobile
generation in our country, and the other layer of society is represented by his
friend Gaitonde (Saurabh Shukla), who epitomizes the sort of despair that creeps
into people born and brought up in the city and feel trapped. People who have
been victims of their own helplessness, lack of values and lack of upbringing.
Slowly Ram too becomes a part of Mumbai's system. Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar is a film
about the choices we make out of desperation. Another highlight of this film is
Mahesh Bhatt, in his third film as an actor, who plays himself i.e. the film
director - Mahesh Bhatt. features the long awaited return of Vishal (Maachis, Satya)
as Music Director with the fun title song, Chal Padi, and Haule Haule.
