In Bollywood, nothing sells better than a heart-warming love story.Throw in a bit of friendship and we have the perfect antidote even for the most skeptical viewer and Karan Johar has been milking this formula for years, his latest offering being ‘Ek Main Aur Ek Tu’.
Taking a cue from SRK’s famous dialogue, here’s a compilation of films with Bollywood’s hit formula but different treatment
The formula is almost always the same. Boy and girl are friends and at some point in the film, they will realize their love for each other. So here’s a compilation of films with same formula but different treatment.
Kal Ho Na Ho: You are in love with your best friend but she treats you like, well, as a friend. So how do you make her fall for you? Simple! get Shahrukh Khan to sing, dance and give you tips. In the film, Saif plays a bumbling friend who is in love with his best friend who in turn is in love with SRK. After much melodrama, few gay jokes and standard song and dance routine, he gets the girl. Phew!
Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai: This Indianised version of ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ has Uday Chopra playing the party pooper as he goes about trying to break his best friend’s wedding.Well, he doesn’t have to try too hard. Unlike it’s Hollywood original, this keeps up with the mass appeal and unites the lovers.
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na: This sweet story about friends, college life and finding love with the obvious is one of the few well told stories about friendship which doesn’t necessarily stick to all the cliches which Bollywood conforms to on a regular basis. This delightful film with a great ensemble cast manages to full of the most over-done concept in Bollywood. Take a bow Abbas Tyrewala!
