Love stories are eternal. Some even more so, when captured in all its cinematic glory. Those truly last forever in our memories. Ask ourB-Town filmmakers for their favourites and some expected (and a few unexpected) names emerge. They tell us why they picked what they have...
Ali Abbas Zafar
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, because it is timeless.
Sahil Sangha
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and Jab We Met. Both films gave us absolutely wonderful characters who shared a crackling chemistry and made the simplest moments magical to watch.
Ram Madhvani
Bajirao Mastani…For the rasa and Indianness that Sanjay Leela Bhansali and his actors have captured. There is a feeling of viraha (longing) in this film that is uniquely Indian.
Vibhu Puri
Mark Romanek's very romantic Never Let Me Go.
Rensil d'Silva
Vikramaditya Motwane's Lootera. It transported me to a simpler world. It was based on my favourite short story The Last Leaf by O'Henry.
Sabbir Khan
Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise. It's extremely relatable and intelligent. It's romantic and not cheesy.
Rahul Rawail
Raj Kapoor's Bobby, the innocence is unparalleled.
Amole Gupte
Mehboob Khan's Anmol Ghadi. It takes us to a paradise of innocence.
Ken Ghosh
James Cameron's Titanic…perfect casting, excellent use of technology to heighten emotions. Anurag Basu's Barfi…awesome writing pitch-perfect acting by Ranbir and Priyanka.
Neeraj Ghaywan
Vijay Anand's Guide. It shows us that the highest form of love is that which liberates you beyond love.
Sanjay Gupta
When A Man Loves A Woman. Because the woman is flawed in the way that men usually are, and the man struggles to hold on to her against all odds…. Also, Vijay Anand's Guide because it broke every stereotype of a love story in Hindi cinema.
Raja Krishna Menon
Notting Hill, because it deals with the fantasy element in romance, Silver Lining Playbook because it shows romance to be all-encompassing, Vijay Anand's Guide because of the conflict between love and self-interest.
Luv Ranjan
Sidney Pollack's The Way We Were. It is unapologetic about why they come together, move away, again come back together. Deals with real relationship issues, Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford were perfect together."
Sudhir Mishra
K Asif's Mughal-e-Azam and Michael Curtiz's Casablanca.
Umesh Shukla
Raj Kapoor's Prem Rog, Bimal Roy's Sujata, Ulu Grosbard's Falling In Love, Clint Eastwood's The Bridges Of Madison County. These filmsexpressed passion as religion.
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