‘Dil Chahta Hai’ to ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ – Here are 6 of Bollywood’s BEST travel movies

Travel is something that feeds the soul and opens up a whole new world to us. In addition to exploring cultures, travel helps you know someone and yourself. Bollywood films for long have used travel as their central theme to bring us beautiful stories and has knitted them with some memorable characters.

Today, we will take a look at some of the most loved travel movies of Bollywood.

1. ‘Queen’

Kangana Ranaut’s solo honeymoon in, ‘Queen’ after the groom walked out just before the wedding was a path-breaking film which not just earned the actress huge applause but also convinced sceptical souls for solo trips. The unexpected experiences on a vacation from meeting new people to becoming lifelong friends with them, dealing with street thieves to opening up to an all-new world while roaming around Paris and Amsterdam made for a wonderful travel film. If this couldn’t inspire the lazy ones to pack their bags, nothing will.

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2. ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’

Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Abhay Deol’s typical guy-trip film, “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” hit the right chord with the youth. As three friends set off to Spain on a bachelor trip of a lifetime, their journey becomes the turning point of their lives. They have a lot of fun as each of them chooses a dangerous sport for the group to partake from bull – run, sky-diving, deep-sea diving to the La Tomatina festival. The film definitely puts Spain on the must-visit list of many moviegoers.

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3. ‘Jab We Met’

The movie, ‘Jab We Met’ whistles from the bustling city of Mumbai on a train where an acquaintance between Aditya Kashyap, played by the actor Shahid Kapoor, and Geet Dhillon, played by the actress Kareena Kapoor, moves through an adventurous journey. It reels from railway tracks to the hills of Himachal and snakes through the roads of Manali and Shimla. Thereafter, it also takes you to the rural aroma of Bhatinda, which is one of the oldest cities in Punjab.

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4. ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’

As the nerdy Naina dares to join friends Kabir, Aditi (Kalki Koechlin) and Avinash for a trip to Manali, the romantic love story showed how a trip can bring out a major change in a person and can end their search for love. The film that takes up from the adventurous mountain trekking to Ranbir’s journey around the world as a videographer for a travel show on TV, it was a big hit pepped up with added flavours of a Holi celebration and a destination wedding in Udaipur.

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5. ‘Dil Chahta Hai’

This film has set travel goals for a whole generation. While the movie is remembered for a whole lot of other things, the idea of friends travelling to just chill on the beaches of Goa is stuff vacation goals are made of! Such was the influence of the movie, Goa became the national holiday spot for the young generation and still remains so.

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6. ‘Highway’

‘Highway’ beautifully reels the remote Sangla valley in Himachal Pradesh and drives you over the Aru valley and Chandanwari near Pahalgam. Further, scenes were also shot along the road highways of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab. ‘Highway’ is a collection of vistas that are enthralling enough to inspire you to drop everything else you’re doing and venture out on a road trip.

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So that was our story on some of the best travel films from Bollywood. Tell us which one is your favourite in the comments below. We will be back with more stories. Till then, keep watching Bollywood Bubble.

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Ramesh Modi

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