The
Ananya Pandey-starrer Chand Mera Dil has released in the theatres on May 22, 2026. The movie is in the genre of romantic drama, with its story focusing on two engineering students as they navigate through the ups and downs of their lives while handling the academic pressure alongside their passionate but complicated love story. This Dharma production film is ready to deliver an intense, passionate love story and captivate the audience with its emotionally involving storyline. If you love to watch movies like romantic Bollywood movies like Chand Mera Dil , then you should give these five hits a watch.
Love Aaj Kal (2009)
This Imtiaz Ali film includes two love stories running in parallel from different timelines. One in 2009, where Jai and Meera convince themselves that love doesn’t necessarily require commitment and one in 1965, where Veer loves without holding back his emotions. The contrast slowly makes you realise that the modern love story's problem of not feeling too much it is about 'pretending' you don’t feel too much.
Salaam Namaste (2005)
The
Saif Ali Khan and Preety Zinta starrer involves the story of two individuals, Nikhil and Ambar, who are Indians living in Melbourne, who transition from strangers to roommates to lovers. However, an unplanned pregnancy forces them to ask themselves if what they have is love or just comfort. Saif and Preety had a live-in conversation in Bollywood before it became a comfortable one to have in the industry.
Tanu weds Manu (2011)
An NRI doctor, Manu, played by R. Madhavan, travels to Kanpur with an arranged marriage proposal and finds Kangana Ranaut in and as Tanu, a reckless, loud, extroverted woman who is uninterested in this marriage. Directed by Anand L. Rai, the film works because Tanu never tried to be liked by everyone.
Ranjhanaa (2013)
A lovestory which warns you about the kind of love that consumes rather than nurturing the two involved. Starring Dhanush as Kundan, who has been loving Zoya, played by Sonam Kapoor, stubbornly since his childhood, while playing and living in the lanes of Varanasi without any guarantee of her loving him back.
Lootera (2013)
Vikramaditya Motwane’s film starring Ranveer Singh alongside Sonakshi Sinha, indulges you in a period romance drama with its second part based on O’ Henry’s 1907 love story “The Last Leaf”. What started as deception after Ranveer’s character Varun arrives at Pakhi’s home, played by Sonakshi Sinha, under false pretences, transitions into the realness either of them has ever felt. This snow-quiet film depicted Bollywood’s actual potential for the most relatable and more lived-like romance movies.
From the lanes of Varanasi to the sun-lit streets of Melbourne and a snow-covered house in a hill station, each of these films has shown its version of an answer to what love can cost you.
Chand Mera Dil, released on May 22, 2026, is stepping into that same tradition, which might stay with you even beyond the credits roll.
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