Bollywood’s Top Ten Love Stories of our Generation –
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6) Dil hai k Manta nahin- 1991

Pooja (Pooja Bhatt) a rich man’s (Anupam Kher) daughter who leaves her father to reach her boy friend Deepak Kumar. In her journey she meets a young and cute reporter Raghu (Aamir) who promise her to take her to her boy friend. Raghu and Pooja fall in love with one another. Dil hai ke Manta is a frame – by – frame copy of the 1934 Hollywood classic It happened One Night’, which won 5 academy awards too, but Mahesh Bhatt directed a blockbuster out of another. This movie can rank among one of the best in Bollywood history in its treatment f characters, situations and connection.

It is a 1991 movie, but still this movie or its music is as refreshing as it was 18 years ago. Movie had comic, action, melodrama and tons of romance. With Amir Khan and Pooja Bhat in the lead of course it was also pure and clean family fun with zero dosage of vulgarity/cheapness. The scene where the two danced on the old song playing from the radio just is perfect. If you can watch one movie only from this countdown this week, make it Dil hai ke manta nahin.

Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin remains Gulshan Kumar’s best movie even better then his block buster ‘Aashique’. And as so for Mahesh Bhat this was the finest and most acclaimed work. The trio continued with Nadeem-Shravan giving their sweetest, soul – touching, and everlasting music composition. Its here that Sameer became a lyricist to reckon with.

With Dil Hai pundits recognized that Amir Khan is a talent for ages as versatile an actor as industry could get, a fact that was proven year after year till now. Aamir excelled as a mouthed reporter and the role looked tailor-made for him. Movie ran full houses and audience watched it again and again.

Pooja Bhatt came out cute, looked sweet and acted brilliantly. Her hairstyle became a rave among teens of the nineties and that includes my wife too (yeah you can add that to the list of reasons we got married )

Some tracks from the movie are worth ranking as magical. Check out ‘Adhayen bhi hain’. Best directors bring out the best chemistry and the best art directions.

Heavenly we can call the title track – Dil hai ke Manta Nahin.

Music and creativity of Bhat and Nadeem-Saravan sliced through the hearts of many as Pooja Bhat said ‘mainu ishq the lagya raug’ with teary eyes

Kumar Sanu scored his best acclaimed number to date in the popular climax-anticlimax situation. Beat, rhythm, melody and drama… what not!

5) Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam – 1999

Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, ‘Hum dil de chuke sanam’ when released became one of the most talked about movies from Bollywood. Leela Bhansali showed his genius creating a cinema event packed with superb acting, beautiful costumes and dazzling scenery.

Storyline is of half-Indian, half-Italian Sameer (Salman Khan) who comes to India to learn classical music from Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) and falls for Darbar’s daughter, Nandini (Aishwarya Rai). Aishwarya Rai gave a performance of a life time and Salman Khan got nominated for all the awards out there. But the story took major turn when Ajay Devgan entered to make it a triangle. Music of Hum Dil de chukey had a fresh tone and unique beats. Ismail Darbar created a parallel world and Leela Bhansali was successful in taking the audience through this world with colorful magic.

Movie won eight film-fare awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Music Score, Song, Best Actress, Male Playback (Udit Narayan for chand chupa baadal), Cinematography Chroegraphy (Saroj Khan for Nimboda) and Art Direction

The movie portrays no average love triangle but a unique perspective on love, devotion, sacrifice and our conservative morals all so beautifully tackled by the star cast.

If you are curious to see which movies made the other eight slots, read all five ‘MUSICVIEWSIC blogs in this countdown. Read Part 4

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