MUMBAI: Here’s a look at the all time favourite romantic flicks of Bollywood’s dream merchants and stars who have almost always explored various aspects of love in their films.

Amitabh Bac-hchan: My favourite romantic film is Guru Dutt’s Kaagaz Ke Phool for no particular reason.

Farah Khan: My favourite romantic films are Bobby, Love Story and Ek Duuje

Ke Liye — great music, unusual settings and watchable even today.

Ram Gopal Varma: I have no favourite romantic films. I don’t like romantic films.

Ashutosh Gowariker: Bobby for its endearing characters, especially the two fathers played by Premnath and Pran, the high romance quotient between Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, superb cameos by Durga Khote and Prem Chopra. Perfect representation of the rich-poor divide, and a narrative that holds together even today, Bobby is a major classic for me.

Bipasha Ba-su: Ghost... I like the theme of eternal love beyond the living, Arthur Hiller’s Love Story showcases the strength of love and DDLJ, because it is just simply so romantic and makes you feel happy and good about falling in love.

Vikram Bhatt: Mughal-E-Azam for sure! Qayamat se Qayamat Tak... the best adaptation of Romeo and Juliet... love between two innocent people from warring families spells doom for their togetherness. But they enjoy whatever time they have together. Gadar is a great romantic drama.

Dino Morea: The ultimate romantic films for me are Notting Hill, Pretty Woman, Ghost and Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin.

Mahesh Bhatt: It has to be David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago. It is an intimate tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of a country at war, a film that refuses to wither with time.

Sameera Re-ddy: I love Spl-ash because lo-ve has no bou-ndaries, Il Pos-tino because it’s Pablo Neruda’s poetry set in Italy, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam because it evokes the feeling of true love and Pakeezah because it evokes nostalgic love.

Rituparno Ghosh: Teesri Kasam because it showed a romance between two people who are oblivious to their feelings for one another; Guide — it reflected director Vijay Anand’s maturity in dealing with the man-woman relationship; Char-ulata — Satyajit Ray’s most acutely romantic film; Kaagaz Ke Phool — Guru Dutt on why he died ‘pyaasa’; Pakeezah — the fallen woman’s search for true love; Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi — it opened up wounds that even love wouldn’t heal; and Roman Holiday — Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck were like Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman in Guide without the songs. — HNS