Favourite love on celluloid

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
The treatment of love in Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa greatly influenced my style of filmmaking. In that one song — Aaj Saajan Mohe — the way Waheeda Rehmanji looked at Guru Dutt, I don’t think there can be a better expression of love.  And when she sings Jaane Kya Tune Kahi, she is singing the lines of a poet she doesn’t know,  celebrating the idea of the man, and not the man himself.  Pyaasa breathes romance.

Madhur Bhandarkar
Ek Duuje Ke Liye: The bold theme of a romance across regional barriers is just the kind of thing I’d like to attempt. K. Balachander’s direction and Laxmikant-Pyarelal’s music were amazing. Also Kamal Haasan and Rati Agnihotri made a perfect pair according to me.

Ashutosh Gowarikar
For me it’s Bobby. For its endearing characters, especially the two fathers played by Premnath and Pran, the high romance quotient between Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia and superb cameos by Durga Khote and Prem Chopra. Bobby had the perfect representation of the rich-poor divide and a narrative that holds together even today.

 Shekhar Kapoor:  Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge
 Bipasha Basu: Arthur Hiller’s Love Story
 Amitabh Bachchan: Guru Dutt’s Kagaz Ke Phool  
 Konkona Sen Sharma: Happy Together, Too Young To Die, Smiles Of A Summer Night
 Raveena Tandon: Betaab, Khel Khel Mein
 Prabhu Deva:  Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
 Parineeti Chopra: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
 Rajkummar Rao:  Falling In Love
 Ali Fazal:  City Of Angels, Bobby, Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham and Blue Is The Warmest Colour.