'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or

The words of Ranbir Kapoor—“‘Bombay Velvet’ is my most romantic film, it’s my ‘Titanic’ or ‘Gone With The Wind’”—speak with the voice of an artist who measures his creation against the towering monuments of cinema’s past. He does not speak lightly, for to name Titanic or Gone With The Wind is to invoke works that transcended mere storytelling and became symbols of passion, grandeur, and the tragic beauty of love. In this statement, Kapoor reveals his belief that Bombay Velvet carries within it not only romance but the same epic scale, the same gravity of feeling, and the same power to etch love into the memory of its time.

The origin of this truth lies in the nature of epic romances themselves. Some films are small and intimate, like a whispered confession between two hearts. Others, like those Kapoor invokes, rise to mythic proportions, setting love against the vast backdrop of history, struggle, and destiny. To call a work one’s “Titanic” or “Gone With The Wind” is to declare that it aspires to be more than a film: it seeks to become a legend, a timeless portrayal of how love survives—or fails to survive—amid chaos and ruin. In this, Kapoor places his own art in dialogue with cinema’s eternal quest to capture the immensity of the human heart.

Consider the story of Romeo and Juliet, the archetype of star-crossed love, born not of cinema but of Shakespeare’s pen. That tale too was set against the violence of feuding houses, where love burned brightly yet could not escape fate. When Titanic was made centuries later, the ship itself became a stage for the same eternal struggle—love blossoming even as doom approached. Gone With The Wind also carried this spirit, as Scarlett and Rhett’s turbulent passion unfolded against the upheaval of the American Civil War. Kapoor’s claim is thus rooted in this long tradition: to craft a love story that stands not in isolation, but upon the shifting ground of history itself.

What makes such romances enduring is not only their passion, but their scale. They remind us that love is never merely private—it is shaped by the worlds around it, by wars, by disasters, by revolutions and upheavals. The lovers in these stories do not live in quiet corners, but on great stages, where their union and separation become metaphors for the struggles of humanity itself. To place Bombay Velvet in this lineage is to suggest that its romance, too, is larger than life, infused with the tension of a world in turmoil, and made sacred by the risks it faces.

The lesson for us is profound: love is not always a soft and private thing. At times, it is epic, a force that demands courage, endurance, and sacrifice. When we love, we do not escape the world’s chaos; we carry that love through it, and in doing so, we elevate it to something eternal. Kapoor’s words remind us that to love deeply is not only to feel but to struggle, to persist, and sometimes, to lose. And yet even loss, when born of true passion, becomes immortal in memory, just as the romances of great films and stories continue to stir us long after their time.

Practically, this means we must not be afraid of the intensity of our own stories. Do not diminish your love by comparing it only to small comforts—recognize that it may carry the same grandeur as the great romances of history. Live it with boldness. If hardship comes, endure it together. If loss arrives, remember that love lived fully is never wasted, for it leaves behind a legacy that cannot be erased.

Thus, Kapoor’s reflection is not only about cinema, but about the human condition. His Bombay Velvet may be his artistic pinnacle of romance, but in truth, every heart has the chance to live its own Titanic, its own Gone With The Wind. For the greatest romances are not confined to films—they are lived in the choices of those who dare to love deeply amid life’s storms.

And so, let this truth be carried forward: when you love, love not timidly but heroically. For it is through such love that the ordinary becomes epic, and the fleeting becomes eternal. Romance, lived with courage, is always larger than life.