Twenty-five years after Dil Chahta Hai explored friendship, adulthood and changing relationships, Farhan Akhtar has reflected on where its central characters—Akash, Sid and Sameer might be today. Farhan Akhtar imagines Dil Chahta Hai guys Akash, Sid and Sameer 25 years later: “They’ll have a table of their own”In a conversation with The Juggernaut, Akhtar recalled an incident from a recent holiday that brought the characters of the film to his mind. In Dil Chahta Hai, Akash suggests that the friends should return to Goa every year, while Sid wonders whether they might even meet once in the next decade. Akhtar said the conversation remains one of his favourite moments from the film because its relevance becomes clearer with age. “The friends that I had when I wrote that film; they still are my closest friends today after all these years; I just feel blessed.