Anil Kapoor has worn many hats as an actor ever since he started acting way back in the ’80s. He has done straight dramatic roles, action films, crime thrillers, romantic films, even westerns to boot. His versatility in the industry is well known. He’s still going strong despite all these years and giving the youngsters a run for their money. We bring to you a list of his top romantic films down the years as he turns a year older today.
Chameli Ki Shaadi
The film made a stand against casteism and had a feminist heroine, a novelty in those days. Charandas (Anil Kapoor), is under the influence of Mastram Pahelwan (Om Prakash) and wants to dedicate his life to being a wrestler. All his vows of celibacy go for a toss when he espies Chameli (Amrita Singh), the daughter of the local coal trader Kallumal (Pankaj Kapur). The duo fall in love and decide to get married, but both sets of parents are dead against the match as they belong to different castes. They take the help of Advocate Harish (Amjad Khan) to resolve the dilemma. He advises them to elope and get married. And later convinces both the girl’s father and the boy’s brother why the alliance would be politically beneficial to them both. His chemistry with Amrita Singh worked in the film’s favour.
Tezaab
Anil Kapoor plays a young collegian in this violent love story. Munna (Anil) wanted nothing else but join the navy and serve his country but circumstances force him to take to a life of crime. The film highlighted the seething anger felt by the society which is mostly kept in check but acts like acid when erupted. A slumlord Lotiya Pathan (Kiran Kumar) has Mohini and her father in his grips over a past loan and doesn’t like the growing proximity between Munna and Mohini. Munna kills the man who had tried to rape his sister and goes to jail because of that. He becomes a hardened criminal inside and is ordered off Mumbai limits. It was an unusual love story in the sense that it had an undercurrent of violence running throughout and wasn’t just another breezy masala entertainer.
Lamhe
Yash Chopra was known for his bold takes on romance but he really pushed the envelope with this one by showcasing the blossoming of love between a young girl and a man old enough to be her father. Viren (Anil Kapoor) is in love with Pallavi (Sridevi), daughter of a family friend. She, however, has hots for another. She marries her lover after the sudden death of her father and a distraught Viren leaves for London to set up a business there. One year later, it’s heard that Pallavi and her husband have died in an accident, leaving behind an infant daughter Pooja who is brought up by Daijaan (Waheeda Rehman), who had brought up Viren as well.
When she grows up, she visits Viren in London and he’s struck by her uncanny resemblance to her mother, whom he hadn’t forgotten. She has been in love with him since childhood and it blossoms further. Viren has to stop living in the past in order to love her and the film sensitively portrays the different aspects of this delicate affair.
1942: A Love Story
It was a period love story set in an era where the British still ruled us. Naren Singh (Anil Kapoor) falls in love with Rajeshwari “Rajjo” Pathak (Manisha Koirala). Naren’s father is a rich landlord and a staunch British supporter while her father is a staunch revolutionary. His father learns of the hideout of the freedom fighters through his son and informs the British. Rajjo’s father is killed in the ambush and she is rescued by Shubhankar (Jackie Shroff), another freedom fighter.
When Naren comes to know of his father’s duplicity, he’s livid and severs all ties with his father. He too becomes a revolutionary and gets captured by the British. He’s to be hanged for his actions in front of the whole town. Shubhanker saves him at the last minute and the duo manage to kill the British officials present at the gathering. The film showed a young man trying to find love in turbulent times and Anil was brilliant in both aspects of the role.
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