Best Indian Romance Movies

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Best Indian Romance Movies
Best Indian Romance Movies
TOP Movies: Happiness & Tears (2001), As Long as I Live (2012), Padmaavat (2018), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Romance 2 (2013), Kapoor & Sons (2016), Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008), Yash Chopra's Veer-Zaara (2004), Bajirao Mastani (2015), 2 States (2014), O Kadhal Kanmani (2015), Dilwale (2015), Bang Bang (2014), When We Met (2007), Student of the Year (2012), Ram & Leela (2013), Wedding Planners (2010), Fanaa (2006), Slumdog Millionaire (2008).

List of Best Movies

Happiness & Tears (2001)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, UK
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Orthodox Indian, Raichand, would like his two sons to live together with him and his wife, and get married to girls' of his choice. One of his sons, Rahul, is adopted, while Rohan is his real son. Rahul falls in love with a poor Indian girl ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, brother brother relationship, reconciliation, love, wealth, father son relationship, separation from family, unrequited love, arranged marriage, estrangement, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
Is relevant?
As Long as I Live (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 176 min.
Story: An ex-army man, leading a double life in London, must choose between his wife and muse. Jab Tak Hai Jaan movie is a love triangle,and also marks the return of Yash Chopra as a director after eight years. In Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Shahrukh Khan plays ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, romantic, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, bomb, power of love, love triangle, unrequited love, love, rescue from drowning, diary, couples, soldier, love and romance, encounter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, london, kashmir, england
Is relevant?
 7.1
 40K
Padmaavat (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Rani Padmavati - the wife of Maharawal Ratan Singh, is known for her beauty and valour in 13th century India. She captures the fancy of the reigning Sultan of Delhi, the tyrant Alauddin Khilji, who becomes obsessed with her and goes to great lengths ...
Style: costume drama, captivating, touching, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sultan, medieval, fortress, obsession, honor, love, love affair, forbidden love, army, queen, husband wife relationship, love triangle ...
Time: middle ages, 13th century, 14th century
Place: asia, india, afghanistan, new delhi, delhi
Is relevant?
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 181 min.
Story: Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood ...
Style: touching, romantic, entertaining, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love and romance, love, patriarchy, trip, forbidden love, love story, wedding preparations and rituals, opposites attract, domineering father, tradition ...
Time: future, 20th century, 90s
Place: india, switzerland, england, london, middle east ...
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 7.5
 36K
Jodhaa Akbar (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: India
Duration: 213 min.
Story: Jodhaa Akbar is a sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal Emperor, Akbar and a Rajput princess, Jodhaa.
Style: romantic drama, realistic, romantic, entertaining, mesmerizing ...
Plot: emperor, true love, culture clash, royal family, dishonesty, love and romance, arranged marriage, politics, royal court, ruler, historical character, indian history ...
Time: 16th century, year 2008, future, 50s
Place: india, asia
Is relevant?
 7.1
 38K
Romance 2 (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A young woman meets a failing musician who launches her singing career, but their relationship is doomed when people assume he's with her for her fame and fortune.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, romantic, serious ...
Plot: tragic love, love and romance, musician's life, follow your dream, artist, relationship vs career, artists and showbiz, alcohol abuse, celebrity culture, family disapproval, couples, singer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
Is relevant?
 7.7
 34K
Kapoor & Sons (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A story revolving around a dysfunctional family of two brothers who visit their parents and grandfather in Coonoor, and end up falling for the same woman.
Style: touching, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, thought provoking ...
Plot: closeted homosexual, brother brother relationship, death, gay, parent child relationship, brother, coming of age, mother, sibling rivalry, writers, gay son, lgbtqi ...
Place: india
Is relevant?
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A lonely 40-ish man, likely to remain a bachelor, has a chance to find the love of his life when he falls for a vivacious young woman.
Style: feel good, semi serious, romantic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, couple relations, love and romance, dancer, dancer's life, disorder, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, shyness, fall in love, hindu, love ...
Time: year 2008
Place: india, asia
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Yash Chopra's Veer-Zaara (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 192 min.
Story: The story of the love between Veer Pratap Singh, an Indian, and Zaara Hayaat Khan, a Pakistani...a love so great it knows no boundaries...
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, atmospheric, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, impossible love, muslim, hopes, destiny, rescue, uncover truth, love affair, false accusation, against the odds, social differences, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2004
Place: india, pakistan, middle east, asia
Is relevant?
Bajirao Mastani (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.
Style: realistic, costume drama, intense, emotional, touching ...
Plot: love, warrior, battles, hindu, forbidden love, newborn, baby, muslim, fight scenes, sword fight, friendship, family feud ...
Time: year 2015, 18th century
Place: india
Is relevant?
 6.9
 28K
2 States (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: This is a story about a romantic journey of a culturally opposite couple - Krish Malhotra and Ananya Swaminathan. They meet at the IIM-Ahmedabad College and during the program they fall in love. Complications arise after the program comes to an end ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, fast ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, love, family disapproval, love affair, family feud, couples, society, family gatherings, meet the parents, young love, ethnic slur, punjabi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, delhi, new delhi
Is relevant?
O Kadhal Kanmani (2015)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Adhi and Tara are in a live-in relationship and but they are both unwilling to get married. How do they realize that marriage is just a natural progression of their relationship?
Style: sentimental, captivating, suspense, touching, sincere ...
Plot: young couple, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, living together, love, open relationship, alzheimer's disease, young man, young woman, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, hospital, fall in love ...
Place: india
Is relevant?
 5.1
 42K
Dilwale (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Raj is a Mafia member. One day he meet a girl (Meera) while chasing by his rival gang and falls in love with her. Later he finds out that this girl is the daughter of the leader of his rival gang. Yet their love story continues until he was shot by ...
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, exciting, emotional ...
Plot: love, impossible love, mafia, family relations, love and romance, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, society, forbidden love, star crossed lovers, love affair, rival gang ...
Place: india, mumbai india
Is relevant?
 5.7
 28K
Bang Bang (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: India, Czech Republic, Thailand
Duration: 153 min.
Story: A girl gets mixed up with a spy trying to clear his name. A chance encounter of the unassuming bank receptionist Harleen Sahni with the charming yet mysterious Rajveer Nanda, results in an on-rush of ditched planes, car chases, shoot-outs, bombing ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: love and romance, secret agent, on the run, revenge, chase, rescue, survival, undercover, escapades, danger, rivalry, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, london
Is relevant?
 7.9
 65K
When We Met (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Depressed after the passing of his father, Dharamraj; as well as his gorgeous girlfriend ditching him, Mumbai-based businessman Aditya Kashyap takes a BEST bus, goes to Chatrapati Shivaji Train Terminus, and boards a train. This is where he meets ...
Style: light, romantic, semi serious, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: true love, couple relations, fish out of water, love affair, family relations, disorder, marriage, odd couple, love, male female relationship, urban, train ...
Time: y2k, year 2007, 21st century
Place: india, asia
Is relevant?
Student of the Year (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Several alumni reminisce about their final year at St. Theresa's College and the events that shaped their lives.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love triangle, high school, fall in love, friendship, teenage life, lifestyle, teenage love, youth, rivalry, contests and competitions, friends, competition ...
Time: year 2012
Place: india, asia
Is relevant?
 6.4
 23K
Ram & Leela (2013)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in violent times.
Style: serious, touching, stylized, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, true love, wooing, love affair, death of lover, accidental killing, marriage, love, shakespeare, mother daughter relationship, vengeance, tragedy ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: india, asia
Is relevant?
Wedding Planners (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Shruti and Bittoo decide to start a wedding planning company together after they graduate from university, but romance gets in the way of business.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, wedding party, partner, fall in love, unlikely partners, friendship, couples, newcomer, dancer, wedding preparations and rituals, couple relations, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new delhi, asia, delhi, india
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 7.1
 37K
Fanaa (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan (Aamir Khan), a casanova and tour ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, feel good, emotional ...
Plot: first love, blind character, terrorist, terrorism, hopes, muslim, self discovery, blindness and impaired vision, life changing experience, love and romance, tragic love, blindness ...
Time: year 2006
Place: kashmir, india, new delhi, asia, delhi
Is relevant?
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style: touching, uplifting, motivational, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: poverty, childhood, destiny, orphan, rags to riches, against the odds, love, street life, society, journey, true love, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place: india, mumbai india, asia, taj mahal, britain
Is relevant?
Ye Maaya Chesave (2010)
Genre: Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: An aspiring Hindu director falls in love with a Christian girl whose parents disapprove of their impending relationship.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, inspirational, romantic
Plot: young love, love of one's life, unfulfilled love, star crossed lovers, romantic relationship, love and romance, race issues, couple relations, father daughter relationship, relationship problems, hindu, in love ...
Is relevant?
 8.1
 93K
Barfi! (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: He is cute. He's shrewd. The girls love him. The cops hate him. He can't speak but is always talked about. His naughty antics will make you scream, but he will never listen. Cos he can't! Next summer ride a rollercoaster of emotions ...
Style: sentimental, touching, inspirational, sweet, sad ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mute or deaf, true love, happy ending, lovers, love and romance, autism, wedding, beautiful scenery, wedding planning, love triangle, young man, society ...
Time: future, year 2012, y2k, 70s, 20th century
Place: india, middle east, asia
Is relevant?
 7.9
 47K
Gully Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.
Style: psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, fast ...
Audience: teens
Plot: success, slum, poverty, social outcast, ghetto, fight, friend, rivalry, ambition, youth, society, escapades ...
Place: mumbai india, india
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 7.8
 54K
Rockstar (2011)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: An uninhibited youth woos the hottest about-to-be-married college girl. He rises to become a rock-star - then self-destructs.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, terminal illness, rock star, love and romance, musician's life, artists and showbiz, fall in love, rebellious youth, lovers, passionate love, passion, singer ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: india, delhi, prague
Is relevant?
Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A slim uneducated guy is pressured into an arranged marriage with an overweight college girl. The mismatched couple is challenged to compete in the annual wife-carrying race.
Style: sweet, touching, melancholic, scenic, romantic ...
Plot: overweight woman, love, wedding, strong female character, family drama, love story, dysfunctional marriage, race issues, storytelling, dysfunctional family, solitude, odd couple ...
Time: year 2015, 90s
Place: berlin germany, india
Is relevant?
 6.9
 14K
Fashion (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Fashion begins in, where aspiring model Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) expresses her wish to go to Mumbai and pursue her dream of becoming a supermodel. Through her eyes we see that behind the glitz and glamour of the world of fashion not ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, entertaining ...
Plot: fashion, model, ambition, closeted homosexual, drug abuse, lifestyle, rise to the top, follow your dream, abortion, friendship, desire for fame, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
Is relevant?
 6.6
 25K
Ek Villain (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: When his lover becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, Guru blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, romantic, sad ...
Plot: fall in love, vengeance, starting over, uncover truth, rivalry, twists and turns, chases and races, hopes, hunt down, death of wife, psycho, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
Is relevant?
This Youth Is Crazy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani features two polar opposite characters, who at one point were classmates in Modern School. The first is Naina Talwar (Deepika Padukone), a studious bespectacled young girl. The second is Bunny (Ranbir Kapoor), a carefree ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, romantic, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: friendship, fall in love, free spirited, tourist, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, adolescence vs adulthood, college graduate, self discovery, friends, hindu, indian wedding ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: india, paris france
Is relevant?
 7.4
 21K
The Request (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Ethan, a magician rendered paralyzed in an accident, sets off a furor when he makes a petition to the court to end his own life.
Style: thought provoking, touching, contemplative, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: quadriplegic, disability, human spirit, legal action, life is a bitch, love affair, love, protest, legal, media, lawyer, magic ...
Place: india, asia
Is relevant?
 7.6
 52K
Devdas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, weeping, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, forbidden love, love triangle, alcoholic, losing-it hero, true love, love, unrequited love, prostitution, prostitute, drunkenness, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 21st century
Place: india, london, kolkata, asia, europe ...
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