Hindi cinema has many college-based films that are still loved by people. We are talking about films like Student of the Year, whether it is Mohabbatein, Main Hoon Na, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, or Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein. Do you remember ‘Rahul and Anjali’s fight’ from KKHH or Raj Malhotra teaching music to his students in Mohabbatein?
These films are still loved for showing college life on the big screen. While some characters fall in love, some others develop a stronger friendship.
Let’s look at 9 movies like Student of the Year that can bring back your college memories:
1. Mohabbatein
- Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Uday Chopra, Shamita Shetty, Jugal Hansraj, Kim Sharma, Jimmy Shergill and Preeti Jhangiani
- IMDb rating: 7
- Director: Aditya Chopra
- Release Year: 2000
- Genre: Drama/Musical/Romance
- Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video
Mohabbatein, directed by Aditya Chopra, featured a star cast including Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and others.
Big B plays Narayan Shankar, a strict and disciplined college principal who doesn’t believe in love. Things go awry when one of his students, Raj Malhotra (played by Shah Rukh), falls in love with Narayan’s daughter (Aishwarya’s character). Raj is expelled from the college.
Several years later, he returns to the same institute as a music teacher and makes his students fall in love with music.
2. The winner is the king
- Cast: Aamir Khan, Ayesha Jhulka, Pooja Bedi, Deepak Tijori and Kulbhushan Kharbanda
- IMDb Rating: 8.1
- Director: Mansoor Khan
- Release Year: 1992
- Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance
- Where to watch: ZEE5
The film is the story of a rich guy Shekhar Malhotra (Deepak Tijori) and a lower-middle class guy Sanjay Lal (Aamir Khan), who compete to get a beautiful girl (played by Pooja Bedi).
Meanwhile, Aamir’s character Sanjay undergoes rigorous training to participate in a bicycle race after his brother is seriously injured. Ayesha Jhulka plays Anjali, a girl from Sanjay’s gang. Anjali has a crush on Sanjay. During training, Sanjay realises his feelings for Anjali and later wins the race.
3. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
- Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji
- IMDB Rating: 7.5
- Director: Karan Johar
- Release Year: 1998
- Genre: Comedy/Drama/Musical
- Where to watch: Netflix and Amazon Prime Video
Karan Johar’s film ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ featured Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji. Shah Rukh and Kajol played college friends Rahul and Anjali.
Anjali falls in love with Rahul, but he does not love her back and later marries Tina (Rani Mukerji). Years later, after Tina’s death, their daughter Anjali reunites with the grown-up Anjali and her father.
4. Ishq Vishq
- Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao, and Shenaz Treasury
- IMDB Rating: 6.1
- Director: Ken Ghosh
- Release Year: 2003
- Genre: Comedy/Romance
- Where to watch: Jio Cinema and Amazon Prime Video
This college romance story is about Shahid Kapoor’s character Rajiv Mathur who pretends to be in love with his collegemate Payal to gain popularity. Payal, on the other hand, is madly in love with him.
Things get worse when Rajiv molests Payal in Alibaug and they break off their relationship. Rajiv then tries to woo a new college girl, but realises he loves Payal too.
5. I want to live in your heart
- Cast: R Madhavan, Dia Mirza and Saif Ali Khan
- IMDB Rating: 7.5
- Director: Gautham Vasudev Menon
- Release Year: 2001
- Genre: Comedy/Drama
- Where to watch: Jio Cinema
R Madhavan plays the role of Maddy, who impersonates Rajiv to woo a beautiful girl, Reena. She is about to marry Rajiv. They fall in love, but later Reena comes to know about his identity after the real Rajiv arrives from America.
Maddy and Rajeev become college rivals. The film starred R Madhavan, Dia Mirza and Saif Ali Khan in lead roles.
6. Mera Pehla Pehla Pyar (MP3)
- Cast: Ruslaan Mumtaz and Hazel Croney
- IMDb rating: 7
- Director: Robbie Grewal
- Release Year: 2007
- Genre: Comedy/Drama/Musical
- Where to watch: ZEE5
Mera Pehla Pehla Pyar is the story of Rohan Sood, a Delhi student who falls in love with his college girl Ayesha Mehra. Their relationship hits a rough patch when rumours of her dating someone else spread.
Ayesha moves to Paris with her mother. Rohan soon realises this and travels to the city to meet his girlfriend.
7. I am here
- Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Sushmita Sen, Zayed Khan and Amrita Rao
- IMDb rating: 7
- Director: Farah Khan
- Release Year: 2004
- Genre: Action/Comedy
- Where to watch: Netflix
Directed by Farah Khan, ‘Main Hoon Na’ featured Shah Rukh Khan, Sushmita Sen, Zayed Khan and Amrita Rao in lead roles.
The story revolves around Shah Rukh’s character Major Ram, who masquerades as an undercover officer disguised as a college student. Major Ram is on a mission to protect the General’s daughter Sanjana (played by Amrita). He also wants to fulfill his late father’s wish of reuniting his family.
8. 2 states
- Cast: Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt
- IMDb Rating: 6.9
- Director: Abhishek Varman
- Release Year: 2014
- Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance
- Where to watch: ZEE5
Based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel of the same name, 2 States is the story of two IIM students, Krish and Ananya (played by Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt).
They come from different cultural backgrounds and fall in love with each other. The couple tries hard to convince each other’s parents for their marriage. Krish goes to Chennai to impress Ananya’s parents, while Ananya comes to Delhi to leave a positive impression on his parents.
After much struggle, Krish and Ananya get married in a temple in the presence of their families.
9. Wake up Sid
- Cast: Ranbir Kapoor and Konkona Sen Sharma
- IMDb rating: 7.6
- Director: Ayan Mukerji
- Release Year: 2009
- Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance
- Where to watch: Netflix and Amazon Prime Video
Directed by Ayan Mukerji, Wake Up Sid starred Ranbir Kapoor and Konkona Sen Sharma in the lead roles. Ranbir played the role of Siddharth Mehra, a spoiled, rich and irresponsible college student who has no goals in life.
He learns the meaning of life and becomes a responsible person after meeting Ayesha, an aspiring writer. They start living together and later fall in love.
Which one do you like the most?
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