No doubt, there are a lot of movies made on the subject of married life before Abhimaan came into being. But it clinches the top spot since it had the undercurrents of reality in its tale. During its making, it was rumoured that the situations in the movie mirrors the state in which the married life of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan was. A successful yet insecure singer (Amitabh Bachchan) resents being overshadowed by his talented wife's (Jaya Bachchan) extraordinary success over the same. A film by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Abhimaan was rumouredly funded by the Bachchans themselves.

The other name of marriage is compromise, a premise used in Piya Ka Ghar. Ram and Malti (played by Anil Dhawan and Jaya Bachchan) experience the struggle of living with a joint family in a tiny apartment. It wasn’t a big film but the story it tried to project was very authentic and poignant.

Akele Hum Akele Tum gains momentum from the point where every other love story ends: Marriage. Tiresome toil to keep the love alive post wedding is depicted beautifully in this movie. Aamir Khan is an aspirant singer who falls in love with another struggler Manisha Koirala. They elope and get married. Within a year, they have a baby and their love starts waning. The frustration of moving on in a hasty marriage gets the better off the two and they separate. The film is so splendidly narrated that you feel every emotion of the characters on screen. However, being unconventional in its approach, Akele Hum Akele Tum couldn’t appease the audience yet it’s lauded by every critics.

It was a sharp coming of age movie handsomely populated with love, marriage and its consequent vulnerabilities. Rani Mukherjee and Vivek Oberoi get married against their parents’ wishes only to be hit by uncertainty and circumstances. But they sail through the relationship. It’s a stark portrayal of how life changes after two people in love get married. The film was a big hit, more so because it was very contemporary in its setting.

Made on the same lines as Saathiya, Chalte Chalte has a high relative quotient. The scenes and sequences in the film found a lot of takers since every one of them was lifted off from real life encounters of the director Aziz Mirza. Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee are poles apart in terms of their status and mannerisms. Yet as unlike poles attract, they fall for each other and get married. The story then takes a usual turn of how the two diametrically opposite people find it difficult to cope up with each other. As it was a comparative film, people liked it a lot.

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi is completely different from what was served to us all these years in this genre. It’s a story about an unwilling marriage. A marriage of circumstance, which forces two people to stay together. Shah Rukh Khan, as the nerdy Punjab Power husband and Anushka Sharma as the reluctant bride were great. It’s a tale of a not-so-handsome husband who tries to win over his wife by creating his alter ego, Raj. A Yash Raj Films presentation, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi was accepted really well by the audience for its amazing storyline.

If we don’t take Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Humari Bahu Alka into account, Life Partner is the first humorous take on life after marriage, or rather a slapstick take on the issue. However, if we turn a blind eye on the treatment, the film includes every kinds of marriage as viewed by people. While for Fardeen Khan and Genelia D’Souza marriage is just a seal to their relationship, for Tusshar Kapoor it’s a start and so he believes vehemently in arranged marriages. But all belief takes a turn for the worse when the after marriage gloom strikes them all. This is invariably the first film to raise two aspects of marriage love and arranged in one framework. However, mostly because of its mindless comic timing, the film didn’t work well.