Hindi movies have a glorious history. The Hindi film industry offers all types of movies in every genre. You name it and you have it. From comedy, romance, action to thriller, horror, social themes or parallel cinema, Bollywood offers it all. If we just talk about romantic movies, it will be hard to figure the total number of movies belonging to the said genre. We have witnessed great romantic cinemas that have created history on box office. The golden era of bollywood gave numerous such love films and that are still admired and appreciated. In fact, romantic movies are one genre that has never gone out of fashion and will remain the same even in coming time. Let’s talk about some of the popular romantic cinemas of Hindi film industry. Of course, we can cover hundreds of such beautiful movies but we can always cover some of them.
Bobby was released in 1973 and was directed by legendary Raj Kapoor. Movie also signalled arrival of top bollywood actors Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia. This movie was based on teen love story and was an astounding success. Raj Kapoor had made this after disastrous collections of his dream venture ‘Mera Naam Joker’ and movie proved to be a runaway success. The success of this movie brought spate of several other romantic movies.
‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’ was released in 1988 and was directed by reclusive Mansoor Khan. The movie had lead pair of Aamir Khan-Juhi Chawla and once again, a fresh romantic movie with a first time actors and directors and wonderful songs registered phenomenal success. Songs like Ae Mere Humsafar, Papa Kehte hain etc have become immortal.
EK Duje Ke Liye was released in 1981 and starred Kamal Hassan and Rati Agnihotri. Movie was directed by K Balachandar and movie buffs lapped it immediately. A sad love story but a major hit. We will talk about some more romantic movies in next articles.