मेरा दिल एक खाली कमरा

Declaring love during a student reunion. Bollywood style.

पहली पहली बार मुहब्बत की है

Long distance romance, Bollywood style. The male lover, presents in a somewhat hotter Kerala climate,  exhorts his lover to send the cooler Nainital climate ...

एक दिन आप यूं हमको मिल जायेंगे

The imagination that the lovers have on how they have fallen in love is a beautiful expression. Although real life love may not always be able to be expressed in such glorious terms, it is useful to see such possibilities.

It seems like there is no match for Javed Akhtar, the lyricist.

तुझे देखा तो यह जाना सनम

Another Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol number, song and dance, ... Bollywood has an interesting way to describe love. For example, in this song, the female lover declares:
"You called out, ... I came ...
What promise is bigger than love?"

जब कोई बात बिगड़ जाए

TBA

चाँद सितारे, फूल और खुशबू ...

There is no end to the variety in Bollywood music in expressing romantic love.

The sources for this blog entry are given below:

एक लड़की को देखा तो ऐसा लगा ...

You can find Meanings and English transliteration on the web. The song is from the movie 1942: A Love Story. Most of the material in this blog post comes from that URL.

The poet — lyricist Javed Akhtar — describes how a boy feels when he sees a girl [for the first time]: many different ways in which the feelings are expressed, 21 ways to be exact, in 3 stanzas of 7 characterizations each. The song can be translated as

When I saw this girl, she seemed to me like ...
... a blooming rose,
... a poet's dream,
...

Now, enjoy the video as your read the lyrics presented below.

कुछ न कहों कुछ भी न कहों