Dipta Chaudhuri, excited at the prospect of several weeks of Bollywood Ka Boss in the new year, is busy thinking up questions for them. Here he wonders which Hindi film first used the mobile phone:

 I was wondering on a lot of interesting question possibilities, a lot of which cannot work out simply because there is no way to verify them.
For example, which was the Hindi movie to show the use of a mobile phone?
Haseena Maan Jayegi - which had Sunil Mittal’s favourite song What is your mobile number? - did not show any use of the device, to the best of my recollection. And that film came around 1999. Of course, Deewana Mastana - with the legendary Pappu Pager and Munna Mobile - came even earlier around 1997. But no mobile usage, as far as I can recall.
Karan Johar, a director on the cutting edge of ‘cool’ in his movies, had no mobile phones in Kuch Kuch Hota Hain (1998) but had one in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001).
In 2000, Kaho Na Pyaar Hain launched not only Hrithik Roshan but also the humble green-backlit, black and clunky Motorola into stardom. The film actually used the mobile phone to further the plot! To my mind, this was definitely a first.