From its history of 100 years, If Indian cinema has ever explored any genre other than comedy than it is Romance. Indian romance films are often top grossing movies of year. From Dilip Kumar to Shahrukh Khan, this genre has produced many well known romantic and chocolaty actors. No doubt Romance heroes has much more following than actors of any other genre. If you’re to make a list of Hindi loves movies then surely it would be a tough task because it is one of the most explored or better say exploited genre in the film industry. Almost every hindi film will have love story of some kind. While you can trace out pure Bollywood romance films yet there are several sub genres of Romance that you can not neglect. Here I have made a list of 100 Most Popular Hindi loves movies. Several of the bollywood films included in the list could not be cited as pure romance movies but they did had romance as one of the main themes and were widely praised by critics as well as fans. So here is my list of 100 Best Hindi Love movies:
Note: If you find any of your favorite Indian romantic movie missing from the list then do let us know in the comment section below:).
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100. Umraao Jaan
Director – Muzaffar Ali
Cast – Seema Sathyu, Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Farooq Shaikh, Dina Pathak, Shaukat Kaifi, Umme Farwa, Prema Narayan
IMDB Rating – 7.8
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Release Date – 1981
Box Office – Rs.20 crores
Genre – Drama, Musical
Awards – None
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99. Rangeela
Director – Ram Gopal Varma
Cast – Jackie Shroff, Aamir Khan, Urmila Matondkar
IMDB Rating – 7.5
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Release Date – 8 September 1995
Box Office – ₹1.5 billion
Genre – Comedy, Drama, Musical
Awards – None
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98. Kashmir Ki Kali
Director – Shakti Samanta
Cast – Sharmila Tagore, Nazir Hussain, Pran, Shammi Kapoor
IMDB Rating – 7.1
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Release Date – 20 November 1964
Box Office – ₹1.3 crores
Genre – Comedy, Musical, Romance
Awards – None
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97. Barsaat (Raj kapoor Starrer)
Director – Raj Kapoor
Cast – Raj Kapoor, K. N. Singh, Nargis, Prem Nath, B. M. Vyas, Nimmi, Cuckoo
IMDB Rating – 7.9
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Release Date – 22 April 1949
Box Office – Rs.1.10 crore
Genre – Drama, Romance, Musical
Awards – None
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96. Zindagi na Milegi Dobara
Director – Zoya Akhtar
Cast – Katrina Kaif, Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechlin, Farhan Akhtar
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 71%
Release Date – 15 July 2011
Box Office – ₹1.53 billion
Genre – Comedy, Drama
Awards – None
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95. Dev D
Director – Anurag Kashyap
Cast – Mahie Gill, Kalki Koechlin, Abhay Deol
IMDB Rating – 8
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Release Date – 6 February 2009
Box Office – ₹49.87 crore
Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance
Awards – None
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94. Student of the Year
Director – Karan Johar
Cast – Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Rishi Kapoor, Ram Kapoor, Sana Saeed, Ronit Roy
IMDB Rating – 5.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 50%
Release Date – 19 October 2012
Box Office – ₹109.10 crore
Genre – Comedy, Drama, Romance
Awards – None
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93. Socha Naa Tha
Director – Imtiaz Ali
Cast – Ayesha Takia, Abhay Deol
Ayesha Takia
IMDB Rating – 7.5
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Release Date – 4 March 2005
Box Office – Rs.6 Crores
Genre – Romance, Comedy
Awards – None
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92. Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham
Director – Karan Johar
Cast – Jaya Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan
IMDB Rating – 7.4
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Release Date – 14 December 2001
Box Office – ₹1.36 billion
Genre – Drama, Musical, Romance
Awards – None
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91. Ram Teri Ganga Maili
Director – Raj Kapoor
Cast – Saeed Jaffrey, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajiv Kapoor, Divya Rana, Mandakini
IMDB Rating – 6.7
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Release Date – 25 July 1985
Box Office – ₹10 crores
Genre – Drama, Musical, Romance
Awards – None
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90. Jeet
Director – Raj Kanwar
Cast – Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Sunny Deol
IMDB Rating – 5.6
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Release Date – 23 August 1996
Box Office – ₹225 crore
Genre – Action, Drama, Romance
Awards – None
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89. Judaai
Director – Raj Kanwar
Cast – Urmila Matondkar, Sridevi, Anil Kapoor
IMDB Rating – 6.1
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Release Date – 28 February 1997
Box Office – ₹107 crore
Genre – Drama, Romance
Awards – None
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88. Devdas
Director – Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Cast – Madhuri Dixit, Shah Rukh Khan, Jackie Shroff, Aishwarya Rai
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 12 July 2002
Box Office – ₹1.02 billion
Genre – Drama, Musical, Romance
Awards – None
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87. Arth
Director – Mahesh Bhatt
Cast – Raj Kiran, Smita Patil, Rohini Hattangadi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Shabana Azmi
IMDB Rating – 8
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Release Date – 3 December 1982
Box Office – ₹2 crore
Genre – Drama, Romance
Awards – None
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86. Hero
Director – Subhash Ghai
Cast – Meenakshi Seshadri, Jackie Shroff, Sanjeev Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Madan Puri, Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor
IMDB Rating – 6.7
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Release Date – 16 December 1983
Box Office – ₹17 Crores
Genre – Action, Drama, Romance
Awards – None
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85. Betaab
Director – Rahul Rawail
Cast – Prem Chopra, Nirupa Roy, Amrita Singh, Sunny Deol, Shammi Kapoor
IMDB Rating – 6.6
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Release Date – 5 August 1983
Box Office – ₹13.5 crores
Genre – Family, Romance
Awards – None
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84. Hum hai Raahi Pyaar Ke
Director – Mahesh Bhatt
Cast – Juhi Chawla, Aamir Khan, Sharokh Bharucha, Baby Ashrafa, Kunal Khemu
IMDB Rating – 7.4
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Release Date – 5 July 1993
Box Office – ₹97 million
Genre – Drama, Family, Comedy
Awards – None
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83. Pardes
Director – Subhash Ghai
Cast – Apurva Agnihotri, Shah Rukh Khan, Mahima Chaudhry, Amrish Puri, Himani Shivpuri, Alok Nath
IMDB Rating – 7
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Release Date – 8 December 1997
Box Office – ₹49 crore
Genre – Drama, Musical, Romance
Awards – None
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82. Julie
Director – Deepak Shivdasani
Cast – Vikram, Lakshmi
IMDB Rating – 4.1
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Release Date – 23 July 2004
Box Office – ₹2.8 crores
Genre – Family, Musical, Romance
Awards – None
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81. Kabhie Haan Kabhie Naa
Director – Kundan Shah
Cast – Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Shah Rukh Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Deepak Tijori
IMDB Rating – 7.8
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Release Date – 25 February 1994
Box Office – ₹5.5 crore
Genre – Comedy, Drama, Music
Awards – None
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