A spirited engineering student in Hyderabad falls into a sweeping campus romance with a classmate, only to discover that adulthood arrives faster than either of them is ready for. As ambition, responsibility, and the weight of grown-up choices begin to press in, the two are forced to reckon with what love actually demands, in a story about timing, maturity, and the cost of growing up together.
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Original Release (D’Souza Media) | May 22, 2026
Chand Mera Dil is a 2026 Hindi-language romantic drama directed by Vivek Soni, marking his second feature after Meenakshi Sundareshwar (2021). The film is produced by Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta, Somen Mishra, and Marijke Desouza under the Dharma Productions and Serendipity Films banners.The film follows Aarav (Lakshya) and Chandni (Ananya Panday), two ambitious engineering students at a college in Hyderabad, whose passionate college romance is tested when adulthood and its responsibilities arrive earlier than expected. The supporting cast includes Manish Chaudhary, Aastha Singh, Pratham Rathod, Resad Ajim, Elvis Jose, and Ankur Poddar.Music is composed by Sachin–Jigar, with cinematography by Debojeet Ray and editing by Prashanth Ramachandran. Set in an Indian university and post-college urban world, the film explores themes of young love, ambition, early marriage, parenthood, identity, and the gap between romance and responsibility. It marks one of Lakshya's first lead roles following his breakout in Kill (2024), and is suited to viewers of grounded Hindi romantic dramas.
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The film opened against limited competition, with Mohanlal's Drishyam 3 as its main contemporary. It opened across 3,549 shows nationwide and was tracking a net of around Rs 1.54 crore on Day 1, with pre-sales of roughly 27,000 tickets across PVR Inox and Cinepolis chains and trade expectations of an Rs 4–6 crore nett opening day. As a mid-budget romantic drama, the film's commercial path depends on weekend word-of-mouth ahead of competitive June releases.
To give the engineering college setting an authentic, grounded texture, the production filmed extensively on real campuses in Hyderabad and later wrapped portions in Jamshedpur — deliberately avoiding the glossy Mumbai studio look typical of Dharma romances.
Neha Vyaso is listed as the film's intimacy director — a role still relatively rare in mainstream Indian cinema, and a notable production choice for a commercial romance dealing with physical and emotional intimacy between young leads.
Originally announced for a 2025 theatrical release, the film was pushed to April 2026 before finally settling on May 22, 2026 — giving it nearly a year and a half of post-production and marketing lead time from wrap to release.