Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam is a 1999 romantic drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It was released internationally as Straight From the Heart. The film stars Aishwarya Rai in leading role playing a role of a young girl Nandini. The film also stars Salman Khan and Ajay Devgn.
Nandini is a free?spirited but spoiled rich girl who falls for the half?Italian, half?Indian Sameer, a young man who moves to her family mansion to study music under her father, a royal singer. Her father disapproves of their relationship.
The soundtrack had lyrics by Mehboob and music by Ismail Darbar. Voices in the soundtrack include those of Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Hariharan, Vinod Rathod, Sultan Khan, Shankar Mahadevan, KK and others. It received nine Filmfare Awards nominations in the music and singing categories and produced some winners as well. Vikas Bhatnagar of Planet Bollywood gave the soundtrack a perfect 10 out of 10 stars and said it has "cemented it's [sic] place in the history books of greatest ever Hindi soundtracks."
