One of the prime things that Bollywood is known for is the eternal and magical love stories of it that featured on the screen. It teaches us a lot in many manners. And thus check out the top 5 lessons of love here that Bollywood gave us before and now.
Base of Love - FriendshipMany say that love is difficult, but friendship is easy. On the contrary, also some say that a girl and boy can't be friends. However, what happens when your best friend turns out to be your lover. When you're growing up together, you connect with each other very well. It is a friend only who is sticks with you in the course of your bad times. Bollywood has come up with films where friendship was the base of love. While 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' celebrated the friendship between Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, films like 'Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na' also showed how two friends realizing their love for each other. Also in 'Hum Tum', Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji turns best friends from enemies, and later on falls in love with each other. In all the movies, lead actor falls in love for a different girl or boy at first, but situations guide them back to their best friend. And so, they say your best friend can be your best lover.
Who said love was trouble-free and uncomplicated? Be it non-agreeable parents, caste or other social issues, people who fall in love have for all the time to face a lot of difficulties before they eventually get their love. Love offers you the strength to break all the walls to finally win over, and this happens only because you are honest, true to yourself and to your love. Like in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Shah Rukh Khan had to face several problems before he finally won his true love. Be it an unwilling father-in-law or a third person involved, King Khan eventually wooed his lady love and her family on the base of truth and honesty to come out as a champion in his attempt.
For love, Age is just a 'Number'. This is in particular the case when it comes to true love, where it is about compatibility and not age. Bollywood has time and again come up with striking and appealing stories of young girl who fall in love with men twice her age. While 'Lamhe' was a story where Sridevi falls in love with a man of her father's age, 'Nishabd' shows us the love between a younger woman and a much older man. Movies like 'Ek Choti Si Love Story', 'Mera Naam Joker' and 'Nasha' have also brilliantly portrayed love between a younger man and an older woman. Such movies inspire us to think beyond concerns like age and money, and make us fall in love.
When two people fall in love, they don't shell out their attention to partner's bank balance, size of the home or the number of cars they have. They fall in love with the person or the inner quality that matters them a lot. Movies like 'Raja Hindustani' have portrayed this well and wonderfully each and every time. Aamir Khan and Karisma Kapoor starrer film is a love story between a private cab driver and a rich girl and how they fight all barriers to be with each other. Such stories encourage us to believe in the kindness and honesty of people, and fall for the inner beauty rather than their outer wealth.
There are a lot of among us who are differently-abled people. Well, that doesn't mean that such people don't deserve love. Bollywood has always come up with moving stories where people with physical and mental disabilities have fought against all odds to get love. Ranbir Kapoor starrer film 'Barfi!' is a love story between a deaf and mute man with an autistic girl. Similarly, 'Saajan' is also a love story between a poor and lame orphan who falls for a normal girl. Such movies prove that no disability can stand in the road of love.
