bollywood has time and again depicted diwali the most widely celebrated festival in our country in all its splendour and glory with gorgeous traditional ensembleslavish setsspectacular fireworks and earthen diyas in festive songs and scenesread celebs reveal their diwali shopping plans as deepavali comes knocking at your doortake a cue from movies on how to give your celebrations a larger than in life feelmohabbatein 2000 the song pairon mein bandhan hai is set on a diwali night and has a larger significance to the story it is instrumental in the films climax the three young love stories that raj aryan shah rukh khan plays cupid to culminate into fullfledged relationships in the course of this upbeat dance trackmujhe kucch kehna hai 2001 in this filmdiwali becomes the reason for tusshar to catch a glimpse of kareena kapoor khan dressed in a pristine white salwar kameez she gets down from a car lights a cracker and celebrates the festival with children it is love at first sight for tusshar who is mesmerised by her beauty and innocence from the word gojoh jeeta woh sikander 1992 diwali makes a fleeting appearance in a song where a a young aamir khan and his buddies including ayesha jhulkacelebrate it complete with fire crackers and desi costumes the prankster aamir gets his brother mamik singh to profess his love to his childhood crushraju ban gaya gentleman 1992 coming close on heels of the protagonist rajus shah rukh khan job offer the diwali sequence in this film is a happy song and dance number the whole basti gets together to dance and celebrate together in its true spirit with jai nana patekar playing musicianvaastav 1999 in sanjay manjrekars gritty film the festival is an important sequence as protagonist sanjay dutt returns to celebrate with the people of his chawl after becoming a goon flush with cash he turned out by his mother who wont stand a criminal in her homekabhi kushi kabhie gham 2003 the title track of the film marks the entry of shah rukh khan and the familys elder son rahul who he plays the title song uses diwali as its setting to set the tone of the family drama and establishes the relationship between rahul and his mother nandini jaya bachchan dresses in ivorytaare zameen par 2007 it was a blue diwali for darsheel safary who played the dyslexic ishaan in this film the young boy is being sent off to boarding school after diwali and the festive sequence in this movie is one of its most heartbreaking parts though gloomy the cheerful festive backdrop is contrary to ishaans moodwhich the scene highlightsaisha 2010 sonam kapor draped in a gold and sheer saree and a chic maang teeka on her forehead caught our attention in the fashionable chick flicks diwali sequencethough it is lisa haydons beautiful classical singing that is most memorable set in south delhis elite circlesthe scene shows a glimpse of tastefully done bright interiorsluxurious upholsterypretty electric lights