DIL SE (PLATINUM DVD)

DIL SE-PLATINUM

Now with English subtitles, enhanced picture quality, and improved main menu graphics. Video picture quality-excellent. Audio- has outstanding 5.1 Dolby Digital. Dil Se, one of the very best films of 1998, has now been re-released by EROS/DEI in an improved Platinum Edition version. They've restored the missing opening credits, which contains an intriguing, though brief, uncredited song as the credits roll by. Surprisingly, the print used for this version is the same as before. That annoying vertical scratch at the end of "Chal Chaiya Chaiya" has been digitally repaired as much as possible. Although a new "Chaiya," from a better print, would have been preferable. Obviously, a lot of work was done to improve the flaws of the previous release.

This DVD'S picture is much brighter and sharper with the scratches and blemishes minimized as much as possible. And for whatever it's worth, the DVD'S bit rate has increased from a 5.5 to 6 rate to a 7.5 to 8 rate. Which is the amount of data per second compressed on the DVD, and which will arguably result in a better picture. The audio, outstanding in the first Dil Se DVD, sounds even better in the Platinum Edition. The audio appears to have been recorded at a higher level. And the rear speaker sound output is even more dynamic than before. Improved main menu graphics also add to the DVD'S appeal. On the downside, EROS/DEI has once again made subtitle access a chore using the main menu and an impossibility via the remote. In closing, Dil Se-Platinum is a must have DVD with repeat viewing value especially for it's fantastic music (Jiya Jhalay etc.) by A.R. Rahman and great choreagaphy (Satrangi Re etc.) by Farah Khan. Cinematography, direction by Mani Ratnam, and acting by SRK, Koirala, and Zinta are all first-rate. Highly recommended...

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