THE HEART KNOWS!
1992; COL; Hindustani; 35mm; 4490.60 Mtrs; 14734 Fts; 164 Mins; 18 Reels; CC.No. B-17465 Dated 23/10/92 Catg: A

BANNER
H.M. Creations

CREDIT TITLES
Production & Direction: Hema Malini
Story & Screenplay: Imteyaz Hussain
Dialogue: Iqbal Durrani, Suraj Sanim
Cinematography: Peter Pereira
Audiography: Markand Mehta
Editing: V.N. Mayekar
Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri
Art Direction: Bijon Dasgupta
Music: Anand-Milind
Dance: Oscar Vijay, Tara Prasad, Bhushan Lakhandri, B.H. Tharun Kumar, Brian Jacobs
Action: A. Mansoor
Costumes: Rajesh Dave (Shah Rukh Khan)
Make Up: Ravi Indulkar
Stills: Sarvodaya Studios
Dubbed At: BR Recording Theatre, Sunny Super Sounds, Geetanjali Dubbing Theatre
Rerecording: Hitendra Ghosh
Processed At: Ad Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Studios: Filmcity, Rajkamal, Swati Studios, Filmistan Studio, Chandivali Studio

PLAYBACK SINGERS
Suresh Wadkar, Sadhana Sargam, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Arvinder Singh, Aparna Maykar, Padmini Roy, Pankaj Udhas

CAST
Jeetendra
Dimple Kapadia (Barkha)
Mithun Chakraborty
Amrita Singh (Raaj)
Shah Rukh Khan (Karan)
Divya Bharti (Laila)
Kabir Bedi (Digvijay Singh)
Sonu Walia (Salma)
Raza Murad
Amar Mukherjee
Farida Jalal (Razia)
Beena
Sulabha Deshpande

SYNOPSIS
A remake of the popular novel 'Lace', Dil Aashna Hai is the story is of Laila (Divya Bharti), who has been brought up in a brothel and works as a cabaret dancer in Digvijay Singh's five star hotel. At the wedding of Digvijay Singh's daughter, Laila performs and Karan (Shah Rukh Khan), Digvijay's only son, falls in love with her. The same evening, she receives a phone call from her dying mother informing her that she is not her real mother.

Karan helps her in her search for her real mother. Their search leads them to Razia (Farida Jalal), who divulges that eighteen years ago, three naughty students in her college - Barkha (Dimple), Salma (Sonu Walia) and Raaj (Amrita Singh) - fell in love and one of them got pregnant. Laila was the child that was born. The trio looked after the child as if each were her mother and nobody besides the three friends knew who was the real mother. After some time, Laila was handed over to Razia.

Today, Barkha is the Minister of Health and Welfare, Raaj is married to her boyfriend, a prince and a famous horse-breeder, and Salma is the principal of the college where the trio had studied. When Laila brings them together, none of them have the courage to accept her but after many intriguing events the real birth mother finally accepts Laila.