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Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe

2002 film by Vinay Shukla

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ3423473 ↗
Source-derived summary

Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe (translation: Someone ask my heart) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language romance thriller film directed by Vinay Shukla, starring Aftab Shivdasani, Esha Deol, Sanjay Kapoor, and Jaya Bachchan. Anupam Kher, Juliet Albuquerque, Jaspal Bhatti and Rajpal Yadav play supporting roles. The film is a remake of the 1997 Telugu film Pelli.

Synopsis

Designer Aman Puri is the only son of the Puri family. His dad wants him to get married, but Aman insists he will not marry unless he meets the girl of his dreams. While trying to design his final project, he sees Esha Singh, a fellow student at his college. Aman does his best to strike a friendship with Esha, but she adamantly refuses him. His father, unable to see Aman hurt, decides to speak with Esha's mother, Mansi Devi. Mansi Devi assures Aman's father that she has no objections to Aman's intentions toward Esha. She then speaks to Esha, telling her there is nothing wrong with returning Aman's friendship.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe” as 2002 film by Vinay Shukla. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Mere, Poochhe and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2002 film by Vinay Shukla. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3423473. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.