In Veer-Zaara, one of a handful of Indian-Pakistani romances, Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh (Shah Rukh Khan) falls in love with Pakistani Zaara Hayat Khan (Preity Zinta), and they travel around Punjab, but she returns home to marry her fiancé. She runs from home, symbolically losing her burqa, as they both declare their love for each other. Rahman, with songs like ‘Humma Humma’, which accompanies their search for romance in the city, and the searingly beautiful love song ‘Tu Hi Re’/‘Only You’ when Shekhar calls Shaila to him as he waits for her in a ruined coastal fort. However, after six years, they are faced with rising intolerance between the communities and their family becomes under threat.īombay has an immensely successful soundtrack by A.R. Shekhar brings Shaila to Bombay, where he is a journalist, as it seems a modern city. When Shekhar ( Arvind Swamy), from an orthodox Hindu family, and Shaila Banu ( Manisha Koirala), a Muslim, fall in love, they face hostility from both families. Bombay is one of three political romances by Ratnam – the others being Roja (1992) and Dil Se (1998) – which explore love in troubled times. Originally made in Tamil, Mani Ratnam’s Bombay is set against the backdrop of the December 1992/January 1993 Hindu-Muslim riots in the city that followed the demolition of the Babri Masjid, a mosque in north India that some contested was built on a destroyed temple. Standing in a wet, grey Trafalgar Square, feeding birds while dreaming of the yellow mustard fields of Punjab, it is his views on love that change the most during the film. The film’s opening scene shows his love for his traditional homeland and his detachment from London where he lives. However, the changing views of romance in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (known as DDLJ) include Simran’s father’s view, that marriages are arranged by family elders and love will follow. Among all the fun are wonderful romantic songs, such as ‘Tujhe Dekha’/‘When I Saw You’. He follows her to Punjab to win over her family and persuade them to accept him as her husband. They fall in love on a European rail holiday, but when they return to London, the most romantic moment occurs when Simran invites Raj to come to her arranged wedding and he refuses.
Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan as Simran and Raj became one of the best-loved screen couples of all time. This romance set amid London’s Indian diaspora was a landmark in Hindi films and is still attracting audiences in a cinema hall in Mumbai 20 years later. It is no coincidence that Shah Rukh Khan, the biggest romantic hero of the last 20 years, weeps beautifully and often. The songs of sorrow (‘dard bhare geet’) produce longing that was celebrated in Indian aesthetic theory as ‘vipralambha shringara’ – love in separation. Love imagined, or love lost, makes the film more emotional. Many romantic films end with the promise of happily ever after, but the key romantic moments are often those of sorrow and sadness. There should be five to eight songs to mark nodes in the narrative, such as meeting, falling in love, union, separation and so on.
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In the second half of the film, the plot has to find a resolution, taking the film to the full three hours. It’s not just the romantic melodramas, the romcoms, the romantic action films… The typical story and structure of a Bollywood romance is that a beautiful man and woman meet, take some time to fall in love, then an unexpected crisis brings us to the interval. Hindi cinema’s genres are very loosely defined, with almost all films having a central romantic theme.
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