They can make you laugh, cry your eyes out or sigh contentedly when the boy gets the girls. Here are five romantic films to watch this Valentine's Day.
(500) Days of Summer
Zooey Deschanel is that quirky girl everyone wants to be or be with. Basically the boy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) meets a girl (Deschanel), and falls in love, but she’s not into it. The movie highlights their relationship in a non-linear fashion, and is a great portrayal of modern love and relationships. If you’re the romantic type, will make you believe true love exists.
Dilwale Dulhaniya le Jayenge
If you grew up hoping to have love story like Raj and Simran you are not alone. The love story of a NRI boy and a traditional girl with orthodox father has become the longest running Hindi movie of all time. Melodious music, excellent performance and sizzling chemistry between all make DDLJ a member of this coveted list.
When Harry met Sally
The story is simple: Crystal and Ryan meet after college, and loathe one another on sight. As the years pass the random meetings pile up, and dislike turns to reluctant friendship. But, as the film insistently, infamously asks, can men and women ever really be just friends? It’s not just that the late Nora Ephron poses these kinds of obvious-but-important questions. It’s that she does so while circumventing romantic clichés left and right, creating unforgettably loveable characters and throwing in some of the most fluid, insightful and witty set-piece conversations ever written.
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
A love triangle directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, has Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan in lead. It had two set of love stories, with Aishwarya-Salman depicting the refreshing first love moments in the first half while the second half had Ajay-Aishwarya’s mature love story after marriage.
Pretty Woman
Roberts offered a very different shot in the arm to prostitutes everywhere with this ludicrous but undeniably charming romantic fantasy about a Hollywood streetwalker who falls for a stinking rich businessman (Gere) after he hires her for a week to be his companion at dinners and evening engagements, in between his epic workload of barking at lawyers. Sure, the idea of a prostitute who’s as beautiful, clean, happy and glamorous as Roberts is absurd, but then Gere’s portrait of the archetypal 1980s business shark with a core of ice yearning to be melted is just as caricatured as her tart with a heart. ‘Pretty Woman’ is slushy, cheesy and so smoothly crafted that it succeeds as the very definition of romantic escapism.
