romance

Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Ajit Duara

The most personal of Yash Chopra’s films, this is an elegy to love

City of Love

Shubhangi Swarup

The romance of romance in Istanbul

Can’t Hurry Love

arindam

Fresh evidence that a relatively late sexual initiation is likely to lead to a happier romantic relationship

The Thing about Older Men

Sonali K

…is that they (sometimes) compensate well for the few extra inches around their waistline

The Lovey-Dovey Boys

Aastha Atray Banan

A bunch of young male writers has come to dominate India’s romance charts, once the preserve of female writers

Ekk Deewana Tha

Ajit Duara

This unusual love story is somehow watchable for holding romance up to reality

A Mixed-Up Mills & Boon

Annie Zaidi

The Harlequin formula is ‘hot boy falls for curvy girl and live fuzzily ever after’. Aastha Atray Banan’s attempt to bring in life after romance pops the glorious mirage that M&B entitles us to

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn

Ajit Duara

This is the sexiest part of the vampire-human romance saga yet

Writer Unblocked

Aastha Atray Banan

Writing a Mills & Boon novel rekindled a romance in Aastha Atray Banan’s life—the one with words. For, it finally allowed her to let go of the fear of being judged as a writer