10 Must Watch Romantic Movies of all time.( and some more)

It’s done to death, but one never gets enough. The romantic movies (with a little comedy or drama thrown in for good) are the most entertaining. 

“Qualification of a any good movie should lift up your spirits and make you dream about it for at least a day and want to search your collection in a frenzy to see it or see it.” Really, nothing else works.

Now the list.

            10 things i hate about you.

“cruel to be kind, in the right measure”.................

“i don’t care about my damn reputation”............

“i love u baby...”........................

This is a MOVIE.  I have watched it so many times i lost count, amazing performances, a great cast and absolutely wonderful. It kind of grows on you. Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles are perfect as the shrew and the tamer. But what makes this high school version of the Shakespearean play most successful is the wonderful supporting cast. All on the spot, the teachers (the English teacher, the counsellor, GOD! .. bratwurst,tumescent, quivering member!!!!  “Hilarious”). The father of the girls, the intelligent friend of Cameroon, everybody fit to the ‘T’. Must watch! Never disappoints.

I feel nostalgic too, Heath Ledger, may God bless his soul!

I need you baby song

       While You were Sleeping.

This one is an endearing one, were there are more humane characters. A normal looking woman who has a crush of a seemingly perfect guy (with secrets, surgical ones of course) and a brother who knows he has found a perfect partner for him, who cannot be his. And yes they get together, family helps too instead of usually playing spoilsport.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yn-CJvSx3M

One of the best movies of  Sandra Bullock.

     She’s the Man

One movie where i cant remember the real names of a single person cast, but one that could be watched again and again. Sheer entertainment:  the source being one of the most enjoyable plays of the bard for the ‘Twelfth Night’ after the Tragic R & J helps too.

Girl disguising herself as her twin brother to play football and winning the heart of hottie Orsino, well its a yard well spun. Set in high school too!!! Here too all the characters including Malvolio (the pet tarantulla) are perfect. Nice adaptation.

The Trailer

     The mirror has two faces

The talented Barbara Streisand in this movie simply steals your heart. A middle aged woman whose heart still yearns for true romance and love, who gets it but not gets it when a dashing Maths professor (Ahhhh... Jeff Bridges!) marries her for maintaining a ‘platonic companionship’ as he calls it. And yes she does win his heart, the Climax with music flowing out of an unanimous window in the middle of a street ‘tout romantique’.

The Final Scene

       Say Anything

The scene of John Cusack carrying that music box blasting  and in love! unforgettable. The awkward almost loser falling in love with the good girl is a movie to watch and watch again. Never bores one.

A scene from say anything

       Moon struck

After watching the movie one will really feel that beauty is not everything, a man minus one hand, a lady far from beautiful, completely opposite personalities and what not. And yes they are moonstruck and you are too watching this magic. And all the while this seemingly odd situation never strikes as odd.

Never been a fan of either of the lead actors ( Nicholas Cage and Cher) but u ought to like them in this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIcIyLr92YM

       Flipped

Most ordinary sounding story told in a simple way, but with intelligence. Girl falls for Guy when 7 years old and boy falls back when 13. In the meantime they really learn about each other their major flaws their goodness, their families and their TRUE love. This always, always leaves me with a smile and a little tear....When Bryan Loski  is standing as the basket boy number 9 and wondering why his Julie is not bidding for him, you know the guy has definitely ‘flipped’ even before he says it.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yn-CJvSx3M

       Sweet Home Alabama

Guilty pleasures abound in this movie. Most romantic scene, not when the perfect guy proposes at Tiffany, but when the little boy says “ so that i could kiss you whenever i want” to the question on why he wants to marry the girl. And when the guy grows up to be Josh Lucas, one kind of wonders why this has to as it is.. Well all end well. Reese  appears very convincing even in a stupid role as this one.

Resse and Lucas encounter

 The Soundtrack also features one of the most loved songs. I am still learning to play it perfectly in my guitar.

       Anastasia

Most  would not consider this movie romantic in lieu of Bergman’s other famous movie ‘Casablanca’.  But this story of the lost Princess of Russia, finding the true thing she really wanted to find- Her IDENTITY and even leaving it for TRUE LOVE is as beautiful as it gets. And the smoking chemistry between Bergman and  Yul Brynner. So much of latent feelings in their close encounters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57EhxToDY8A

     As Good As it Gets

I don’t know if this could be classified as romantic, but it is. Who will fall for a freak like Jack Nicholson? You think, but this great actor convinces Helen Hunt and you get it too. Its a great story too.. Great watch !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lOg8PzEaWs

There are others too...

 ·         Love with a proper stranger  (what could be more romantic?)

·         A walk in the Clouds ( a winner!)

·         A lot like love (not actually)

·         Titanic (no i wasn’t going to lay of the list, buts it’s an tragic romance...)

·         Sabrina (1953 Bogart – Hepburn version)

·         Forrest Gump (unrelenting innocent and beautiful love)

·         Strictly Ballroom (will surprise you)

·         You’ve got mail (there is something about Meg and Hanks)

·         The Awful Truth (a perfect pair)

·         West Side story (lovely songs)

·         Sense and Sensibility (deep)

·         Four weddings and a Funeral  (fun!)

·         When Harry met Sally (intelligent)

·         The Quietman (John Wayne never looked so Handsome)

·         A walk in the Park (Fonda and Redford made amazing pair)

·         Must Love Dogs (very funny)

·         Sleepless in Seattle (romance for the romantic)

·         A walk to remember (made me cry)

·         Two Weeks notice (light hearted romance)

·         A little Romance (so so sweet)

Redeemed!!

This is another movie i had reservations about watching, lack of any romantic subplot was another reason. And Tim Robbins of 'Bull Durham' another factor, but i was wonderfully wronged and enjoyed this gem of the movie.

Must Watch

The movie has its flaws, extraordinary circumstances, chances and such, But, You kind of feel that you have won when you see the lead character outwitting others. Truth or Fiction, this is one glorious imagination.
ANDY is one witty guy who i will not forget for a long long time.
If life is about HOPE, nothing better to reassert it for yourself than watching such movies. 
One strong reason i have for naysayers of Cinema.

The Joy of having a supporting family!!

I Met the Family!

I didn't want to watch this movie "Meet the Robinsons", somehow the image of "Meet the Parents" or "Meet the Fockers" flashed in my mind whenever i heard the title. The other day i was watching "The season of the With", really Bad! Good story gone awry or bad screenplay, at the beginning i thought it will be about these ancient myths and medieval books but ended like a vampire movie .


So to cheer up i decided to watch a stupid comedy, instead ended up watching this really good one. The characterizations are cute and lovely. You kinda know what to expect, but whats the loss? So watchable. Disney's still reminds us of innocence and the importance of retaining it!
WOW..

The Pitfalls of Social Life..The Social Network

A really good movie, the showed the complexity, frailty, jealousy, anger and such varied human emotions in a subtle and almost real manner. I liked seeing this adaptation of the story of the youngest billionaire of the world.
Only one miss, a little more details would have been nice...Dont Miss This movie!!

The Mughal Samrajya

Trust me to always do the reverse, in this case reading a series in reverse. I saw the book "Empire of Moghul- Brothers at war", at a book store and liked the gist given at the cover. The hardback book about the least talked about Moghul Humayun piqued my interest from the beginning and  Alex Rutherford had spun a historical yarn which was somehow more humanistic and believable.

And when i recently visited Humayun's tomb i felt something like what people call "deja Vu". 

Then i had to read the prequel, but woe betide, i searched and searched and had lost hope. And then flipkart came to my rescue. The first book in the series "Raiders from the North" is a novel full of information and sorrow and triumph.






Now, eagerly awaiting the next book, hope it will be refreshing tale of Akbar - The Great.

Blasphemy..

I am becoming a non-believer in fiction !!!

I have taken a temporary wow not to read them because i am really fed up. Nothing new in the horizon and hence i am turning to reality or so called versions of reality. Currently reading Marx!!

Its a little story...

Here is a short story i wrote....


The Wish


“There are two kinds of people in the world, the good and the bad. I know this because I am 5 years old and my patti told me so. I am already going to 1st standard and I can spell all the big words like ‘discipline’. Meenachi patti taught me all the big words. The house is all quiet now, it has been so from last Friday, I know it was Friday because they were showing Heidi on TV, its Friday now too but Amma is not allowing me to watch TV. She says we should not do anything for some time now because we are mourning. They are cleaning patti’s room because Amma says she is dead. “ Neena was chatting continuosly as usual to Shanmugam Chittapa , it was a relief that the child has not been affected by the death of her grandmother. Shanmugam Chittapa is Neena’s mother’s uncle and he is stone deaf. Neena had been very close to her patti, her father’s mother. Meenachi patti has been a widow since Jaganathan was a little boy, then he married Neena’s mother Shantha before finishing college against Meenachi’s wishes.

Neena was getting bored now and to add to her woes mother had scolded her for making a rukus in the house.” Mother has been acting strange after the death of patti, she chucked to herself because she knew the truth, her patti hadn’t died. She had gone to heaven. Patti told her already that she was going to heaven and all good people went to heaven and that everyone was happy in heaven. But her mother who never talked to patti before last Friday was crying , everyone was crying. They sang songs and all and there was music too, when got exited and danced, mother shouted at me. It was all so funny and father as usual was shaking and talking to himself. He had that coco cola bottle with him. He always became like this when he drank coco cola. Patti said I should never drink that stuff and I will not “ Neena was fast asleep.

It’s been a month since patti went to heaven and now it’s all as usual. Today I came back early from school. Last week lawyer mama came and read a letter written by patti , the group ups were all upset and were scolding patti because she gave them so little. Appa was very angry for he shouted till the roof came down. But I was happy for patti had already given me a gift before she went to heaven. She gave me box a magic box. I am never to open it until I am as big as next door Ruku akka. It was made of silver and it contained a mysterious stuff, her patti used to take something from it and put into her nose and then she will sneeze real hard. Whenever Neena asked her patti about the stuff in the box, she would say it had magic in it.

As her patti told, the box was really a magic box, if you close your eyes real tight and hold the box in your closed fist and wished for something you got it. She had wished for a new bag the other day and she got it. She has wished for gulab jamun last week and Amma had made it. She even wished that Janani would become her friend and they were close friends now. Everyone around her were starting to wonder how she got everything she wished for and she smiled within herself for she told her secret to none. It was her secret only”.

It was almost a year since Meenachi patti died and the house is a mess , thanks to Jagan, he is wasted. Last week the police came and there was a lot of commotion in the house. “When I came home today I went to the maadi room to get my books to leave for tuition and that’s when I saw father trying to insert his head into a rope hanging from the fan. I got real scared and started screaming and then everything became black”.

Neena knew why this was all happening, she knew it’s because; she had lost her magic box.” It had happened a day after Deepavalli when she went to play with Janani and her friends to the river shore. We were playing anju kal when a group of boys including Ravi came and started pestering them to get out of our place as they said they had marked that area for playing cricket. When I said I wont go, Ravi pushed me in the water I got all went lost my slippers . I came home crying and went straight to my room to find my wish box. I was going to wish that Ravi will disappear and go to hell when they fried everyone in big enna kadaais . Patti had told her that she should not wish any harm to anybody and if she did so it will make her bad. But she was only going to wish that bad Ravi would disappear that will not make her bad. Will it?” immersed in thoughts she searched for her magic box. When she was not able to find it even after half news was over she panicked. “Oh my God! the box is gone ! It’s because… of me? I wished for bad things, oh my God! Please forgive me. Patti , please forgive me” , Neena cried and was asleep.

After that things became really bad, her bag was torn, mother never prepared sweets nowadays and Janani went to town to study. “Everybody at house is crying, they say that father took something from his office and he had lost it. And they will send him to jail if he doesn’t return it.” Neena knew that if she got her magic box everything will be ok again, she ran to the pooja room . She knew that if she prayed enough to God and light a camphor God will give her magic box back. Neena was reaching for the camphor box in top shelf when a bundle fell to the floor. And out came tumbling from it her Magic box. She was overjoyed she took the box and went to her Amma. “Amma ! “ She trust the box in her mother’s hand and told her in all earnestness that if her mother “ Amma close your eyes and wish for anything ma, really ma it will come true this is magic box”. But Neena’s mother was so vexed and angry that she violently threw the snuff box of her late mother-in-law. And then she blinked.

“It was called diamond, that’s what came from my magic box. It was inside the brown powder in the magic box. And as I told you before, everything became alright at home. Now, I am going to get back everything good I wish for!” , Neena touched the little silver box in her pocket and smiled as she wished for those pretty red shoes she saw at the market.