Call them whatever you may – intercaste/interfaith/interreligious/community or love/mixed marriages. Bollywood truly is following the path of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Annie Besant, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Mahatma Gandhi, Gopabandhu Dash, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, Medha Patkar, Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade and many others.

Bollywood is not merely entertainment. Bollywood actors and actresses are in the forefront of national integration by performing inter-caste marriages. If India has witnessed communal violence that was politically motivated, these actors/actresses have done what little they can personally to spread message of peace and love.

It takes conviction of belief in each other but then selfless love is their guide. Many Bollywood couples fell in love but could not get married (Dev Anand – Suraiya; Guru Dutt – Waheeda Rehman). Some are in a relationship (John Abraham – Bipasha Basu, Saif Ali Khan – Kareena Kapoor) while others are engaged to be married (Imran Khan – Avantika).

They have proved love transcends all boundaries. Love is above faith. They prefer human beings above faith. For God lives in His created human beings. Bollywood thus is an abode of peace and love. They are beyond petty issues. They are truly worth looking up to. No wonder they have massive fan following for their hearts and souls are pure.

There is a lesson in it for all of us. They have set an example that is truly worth following. Where there is a will (love) there is a way.

Sunil Dutt – Nargis

Kishore Kumar (Karim Abdul) – Madhubala

Shashi Kapoor – Jennifer Kendel

Feroz Khan – Sundari

Farooq Sheikh – Roopa Jain

Naseeruddin Shah – Ratna Pathak Shah

Raj Babbar – Nadira

Pankaj Kapoor; Rajesh Khattar – Neelima Azeem (both divorced)

Sanjay Dutt – Dilnawaz Sheikh (Manyata)

Sunil Shetty – Mana

Aamir Khan – Reena Dutta (divorced)

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Shahrukh Khan – Gauri

Arjun Rampal - Mehr Jessia

Arbaaz Khan – Malaika Arora

Sohail Khan – Seema Sachdev

Saif Ali Khan – Amrita Singh (divorced)

Hrithik Roshan – Suzanne Khan

Javed Akhtar – Honey Irani (divorced)

Farhan Akhtar - Adhuna

Zayed Khan – Mallaika Parekh

Jaddanbai – Uttamchand Mohanchand (Mohanbabu)

Zubeida Begum – Maharaj Narsingir Dhanrajgir Gyan Bahadur

Zohra Sehgal – Kameshwar Nath Segal

Waheeda Rehman – Kanwaljeet Singh

Sushila Charak (Salma); Helen Richardson – Salim Khan

Sharmila Tagore – Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

Zarina Wahab - Aditya Pancholi

Saunhita (Tanvi) – Baba Azmi

Rajshree V Shantaram – Greg Chapman

Mumtaz – Mayur Madhwani

Daisy Irani – K K Shukla

Menaka Irani – Kamran Khan

Reena Roy – Mohsin Khan

Sangita Bijlani – Mohammed Azharuddin

Madhu Sapre – Gian Maria

Nafisa Ali – Col. R S Sodhi

Farah Khan – Shirish Kunder

Alvira Khan – Atul Agnihotri

Pooja Bedi – Farhan Ebrahim (divorced)

Divya Bharti – Sajid Nadiadwala

Amrita Arora – Shakeel Ladak