BollyHolly: Bollywood All Time Best Rain Scenes In Movies

As rains bring in some respite from the blistering summer heat, we take a look at the wetter side of Bollywood - the rain numbers.Watch out for the some best moment of Indian cinemas under Rain. Bollywood All Time Best Cool Movie Scene under rain.

One of the most memorable rain numbers from the Pyar Hua, Iqrar Hua from Shree 420, with Nargis and Raj Kapur huddling underneath a black umbrella.

A few years later, Kishore Kumar crooned Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhaagi Se watching a drenched Madhubala in Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi

Bharat Bhushan couldn't obviously forget the rainy night when he saw Madhubala trying squeeze water out of her dupatta in Barsaat Ki Raat

Many years later, Smita Patil and Amitabh Bachchan let the sparks fly crooning Aaj Rapat Jaye in Namak Halal

In the late 1980s, Sridevi fell in love with an invisible man and expressed her angst by getting wet in the rain draped in a blue chiffon saree (Kaate Nahin Kat Te - Mr India)

Rumours about Akshay and Raveena's off-screen affair got a boost from the Tip Tip Barsa Paani song in Mohra that literally set the screens aflame

RD Burman's compositions in 1942: A Love Story enchanted all, but Anil Kapoor seemed to be more bewitched by Manisha Koirala's beauty in Rimjhim Rimjhim

The mid and the late 1990s saw a number of memorable rain sequences: 'Thunder thighs' Kajol in Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye (Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge); Sonali 'Don't Mind' Bendre romancing ACP Rathod (Aamir Khan) in a dream sequence from Sarfarosh; and the imaginatively penned Geela Paani, that stuck out like a sore thumb in the classic underworld saga - Satya

Come the new century and Bollywood was no longer coy, yet the evocative value of the rain number couldn't be negated. The top-notch heroines - Kareena Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Bipasha Basu, Preity Zinta, Aishwariya Rai Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra... all have got drenched on-screen.

Even newbies such as Jiya Khan cavorted in the rain while making her debut. And Sonam Kapoor reenacted the eternal Nargis-Raj Kapoor sequence from Shree 420 with Ranbir Kapoor in Saawariya. Dancing in the rain, it seems, will never go out of fashion.

In the puritan days of yore, overt sensuality was not admissible on the silver screen. Therefore producers and directors opted for a covert way - getting the actors (especially the females) wet under the sprinklers.