The romantic thriller Dahek: A Burning Passion was released on December 9, 1998. The movie was directed by Lateef Binny and produced by Milan Jhaveri. The key roles in the movie were played by Akshaye Khanna, Danny Denzongpa, Sonali Bendre and Dilip Tahil while Anang Desai and Achla Sachdev were also there in the film. The music of the film was directed by Aadesh Shrivastav and the songs were sung by Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal, Vinod Rathod, Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi Chauhan and Sadhana Sargam.

Dahek was a romantic movie with good doses of thrills at regular intervals. The movie aimed at solving communal problems through spreading the feeling of love among the people. Mani Ratnam’s movie Bombay was also inspired on the same theme but didn’t do as good as was expected from it. The movie is a love story between Sameer ( Akshaye Khanna ) and Neelima ( Sonali Bendre ). Love is blind and sees no border. Two fell in love and didn’t know that the worse is yet to come.

Sameer and Neelima belonged to different religions and thus was obvious that why they were facing opposition from the families. The situation was worse on Neelima’s side as her family was more conservative. The relief was given from her grandma and uncle Naseem ( K.K. Raina ). Her father Javed ( Anang Desai ) and uncle Jabbar ( Danny ) were against their marriage. Scared Neelima stop seeing her love and her uncle decides to marry her to a Muslim boy. When Sameer hear this news, he kidnaps her with the help of his friends.

The songs of the movie are:
1.    Ho Gori Aaja
2.    Kaha Kare Koyee
3.    Meri Jaan Hai Tu
4.    Tujhe Dekhte Hi Yeh Dil Kho Gaya Hai
5.    Jab se tumhein maine dekha sanam, Meri aankhon mein tum
6.    Saawan barase, tarase dil kyon naa nikale ghar se dil
7.    Meri Jaan Hai Tu [2]