10
Ranked #10 of 100
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
दिलवाले दुल्हनिया ले जायेंगे · 1995
Two NRI kids, a Eurail pass, and a hero who refuses to elope because he wants the father's blessing. Ran in a Mumbai theatre for over 25 years.
- Director
- Aditya Chopra
- Year
- 1995
- Genre
- Romance · Musical
- Cast
- Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Amrish Puri
Why it's at number 10
It rewrote the diaspora into the centre of Hindi cinema and defined the romantic hero for a generation.
Two NRI kids, a Eurail pass, and a hero who refuses to elope because he wants the father's blessing. Ran in a Mumbai theatre for over 25 years.
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge sits in the 1990s alongside Satya and Andaz Apna Apna — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Aditya Chopra.
- Released in 1995, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Musical.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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