Love Quote by Sanjay Dutt

Calling Parineeta "a classic love story" is doing two jobs at once: selling the film and positioning it inside a safer, prestige-coded tradition. Coming from Sanjay Dutt, an actor whose public narrative has long included scandal, reinvention, and tabloid heat, the phrasing reads like deliberate restraint. He isn’t pitching plot, performance, or craft. He’s offering an easy label that invites audiences to lower their defenses and walk in expecting romance, elegance, and emotional payoff, not controversy.

The word "classic" is the tell. It smuggles in credibility without arguing for it. In Bollywood, "classic" doesn’t just mean old-fashioned; it signals a kind of moral and aesthetic order: love that’s fated, sacrificial, culturally legible. It’s a promise that the film will play by rules audiences recognize - yearning, misunderstandings, social barriers - and that it will deliver catharsis rather than shock. That’s particularly pointed for Parineeta (2005), a period-tinged adaptation of a canonical Bengali novel, drenched in old Calcutta texture and composed feelings. Calling it "classic" helps frame its nostalgia as value, not slowness.

There’s also a subtle act of gatekeeping: if you resist it, you’re resisting romance itself, not a particular movie. Dutt’s line flattens complexity into a badge, but that’s the strategy. He’s anchoring the film in collective memory before the audience even has one, turning a new release into something that feels already beloved.