Love has always been Bollywood's many splendoured thing. With or without a happy ending, we're suckers for a love story. Here are our picks for the most romantic films of 2000-2010.
Love has always been Bollywood's many splendoured thing. With or without a happy ending, we're suckers for a love story. Here are our picks for the most romantic films of 2000-2010.
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009)
Katrina and Ranbir are made for each other. Trouble is, Katrina doesn't seem to realize this and Ranbir finds himself cast only in a supporting role in her love story with someone else. But life has a way of making thing right.
Jodhaa Akbar (2008)
Aishwarya and Hrithik bring this epic love story between a Mughal king and a Rajput princess out of the history books and onto the screen, making it more real than we imagine it had ever been.
Jab We Met (2007)
Boy meets girl on board a train, and that's only the beginning of then-It Couple Shahid and Kareena's roller coaster ride to The End.
Namastey London (2007)
Akshay Kumar had us at Namastey. In love with Katrina, aka Jasmeet, Arjun Singh marries her knowing that she loves and wants to marry another. Jasmeet refuses to even acknowledge her marriage, so what is in store for Arjun when she announces her wedding with her 'true love' Charles Brown? The heartlands of Punjab meet city-slicker London in this heartwarming love story.
Chalte Chalte (2003)
Opposites attract and how. Chalte Chalte is an examination of the relationship between SRK and Rani, two very different individuals from equally different worlds.
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
SRK scores a minus on every count of personality but ends up married to vivacious debutant Anushka Sharma in a twist of fate. To win her over, he creates an aletr ego who is everything he is not. But both learn that beauty is only skin deep and love is built on a stronger foundation.
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008)
The road to togetherness isn't always straight and narrow as teenyboppers Genelia and Imran discover in this coming of age romantic comedy.
Veer Zaara (2004)
SRK, who has made a career out of playing the star crossed lover, spends most of his life in jail while Preity thinks him dead. Life passes them by, and Veera Zaara's beauty lies in the journey which brings them back together.
Hum Tum (2004)
Scruffy Saif cleans up good while a bubbly Rani hits an emotional low. But it all turns out good for them, helped along by some sage relationship advice from cartoon co-stars Hum and Tum.
Love Aaj Kal – (2009)
Time goes by, people come and go – but the story of love remains unchanged, be it Veer Singh's old school style in small town India or modern couple Jai and Meera's evolved relationship.
Fanaa (2006)
A blind Kashmiri girl falls in love with a happy-go-lucky tour guide but he turns out to be a terrorist and so, so Mr Wrong. Not a conventional love story, but Fanaa makes this list because of Kajol and Aamir's stunning chemistry and the it's them of the difficult choices that love can force one to make.
Parineeta (2005)
A luminous Vidya Balan debuts as the poor girl next door to Saif's rich bhadralok babumoshai in Vidhu Vinod Chopra's adaptation of a classic story of love, economic boundaries and social divides.
Saathiya (2002)
A wedding brings Vivek and Rani together, and then they have a hush hush wedding of their own. But life doesn't go as planned and both have to work hard toward togetherness. Saathiya teaches us about love and loss but also makes us believe in happy endings.
Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love (2007)
A married couple fighting the 7 year itch, a cabbie who has to bridge the language gap to win over his foreign lady, and the newlyweds struggling to snatch some private moments: these are just some of the many aspects of love are showcased in Salaam-e-Ishq's multiple story layers.
U Me Aur Hum (2008)
When you're in love, all's well with the world. But what happens when you're in love but have no memory of it? Ajay Devgn's directorial debut deals with a couple who have to learn how to love again in the wake of Alzheimer's stars.
Gadar (2001)
Sunny Deol's truck driver Tara Singh falls in love with Ameesha Patel's Muslim aristocrat Sakeena against the backdrop of religious divides in this timeless tale of love crossing borders.
Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)
A terminally ill Shah Rukh Khan forms the emotional core in a heartbreaking triangle with Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta. He doesn't make it to happily ever after but Karan Johar's living in the moment movie does.
Cheeni Kum (2007)
In this unconventional love story, Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu are 30 years apart but have important lessons to teach us about the fact that romance is not always about sunsets and holding hands.
