15 Iconic Bollywood Romantic Films That Had No Villains

Boy meets girl, fall in love, boy proposes and then the villain disposes. A variation of this equation has formed the crux of most of the iconic romantic stories in Bollywood. Sometimes the father, sometimes a crooked ex-lover, sometimes a miffed gangster always creates a hell lot of troubles for our lovebirds. But with the changing narratives in Indian films, love stories have also become more nuanced and layered and as a result, villains are no longer indispensable for creating a mess in the lives of the legendary lovers of Bollywood.

Here are some of the most iconic Bollywood love stories that did not have a villain. Also, because we are talking about romantic films, we just had to include too many Shah Rukh Khan films, because, you know, romance.