hey ladies! I wanted to make a blog post of my ALL time favorite Hindi movies that I was introduced to while living in the Middle East. I was exploring Netflix the other day looking for some good romance movies and I literally freaked out when I saw a Hindi movie pop up that my mom and I LOVED to watch. it made me want to find all the other movies that I remember loving and fell into this rabbit hole. SO I rounded up some of my all time favorites to share with you all. my mom and I made her sisters sit down and watch our favorites and could say they CRIED the entire time, yup they loved it! romance movies are one of the best ways I love to relax and enjoy my night snuggled on the bed or couch and guys the movies i’m about to list are GOOD and on a whole other level. yea they are a little different and you have to read subtitles the whole time, It’s in Hindi, not to mention that the movies are enormously long. like gone with the wind long. BUT SOOO GOOD I promise you won’t even realize it. Have an open mind and get your subtitles setup and your good to go!
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Storyline : When Raj and Simran first met on an Inter-rail holiday in Europe, it wasn’t exactly Love at first sight but when Simran is taken back to India for an arranged marriage, things change. Encouraged by his father Dharamvir, Raj decides to fly down from London to not just win his Bride but her whole family and the blessings of her father Baldev Singh.
The water works I tell you. It’s been years since I’ve seen this movie and brings back so many memories It’s the first movie I ever saw over seas and crazy to say that its rated at No.1 today when I went to google it! Since then, these actors have been my favorites in every movie they’ve made till this day. they are so talented and my favorite love couple of Bollywood when it comes to romance movies. I’ll leave a link below so you can watch a trailer but it doesn’t have words its just a recap on clips from the movie with music, still good click here for the Trailer. Click Here for Full Movie
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Storyline: Rahul Khanna and Anjali Sharma were best friends at college. Anjali realizes that she has fallen in love with Rahul but she’s too late because Rahul has already fallen for Tina Malhotra. Heartbroken, Anjali leaves the city. Tina and Rahul get married and soon Tina becomes pregnant, giving birth to a daughter which they call Anjali. Due to complications during pregnancy, Tina passes away. Anjali is brought up by her father, and each year on her birthday he allows his daughter to read one of her mother’s letters. Through these letters she learns that her mother (Tina) knew that another Anjali was in love with Rahul, and vows to bring them together again.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is probably just as good as the first one I have listed above and boy its a dang tear jerker I swear lol. but so good! I was total fan grilling over these people when I was 9 years old. my friend and I used to dress up in suspenders, cut our hair super short and put on a head band lol we were OBSESSED. and it was a hit movie at the time living in Muscat. this is one to watch for sure. such a great love story! Click Here for the movie available on Netflix, google play, Apple TV, and YouTube.
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Storyline: Yashvardhan Raichand lives a very wealthy lifestyle along with his wife, Nandini, and two sons, Rahul and Rohan. While Rahul has been adopted, Yashvardhan and Nandini treat him as their own. When their sons mature, they start to look for suitable brides for Rahul, and decide to get him married to a young woman named Naina. When Rahul is told about this, he tells them that he loves another woman by the name of Anjali Sharma. Yashvardhan decides to meet with the Sharma family, and finds out that they are middle-classed, unsophisticated, and will not be able to it into his family circle, as a result he refuses to permit Rahul to marry Anjali. A defiant Rahul decides to leave, gets married to Anjali, without his foster parents blessings, and re-locates to London, England, where Anjali’s unmarried sister, Pooja, also lives. Rohan, who was studying in a hostel, returns home to find that Rahul is no longer living with them, and he also discovers that while outwardly his dad is not interested in seeing Rahul get back, Nandini wants the family back all together for all happy and sad moments. Rohan also misses Rahul a lot, and decides to travel to London in order to try and get Rahul to return home. Yashvardhan, is unable to prevent this, and as a result Rohan does travel to London, meets with Rahul, Anjali, and Pooja. The question remains will the hurt and sorrow that Rahul experienced with his foster parents be erased and enable the family to be reunited, or will Rahul forget about the past, and continue to live his life without getting back to his roots and the family who brought him up, leaving Rohan to return alone?
– as you can see my favorite characters are in this movie as well lol. y’all, I love them in movies. They make the best ones together in my personal opinion. This movie makes me cry so hard. I love the storyline in this movie, The build up is unimaginable. this movie is available on Netflix, Google play, Apple TV, and YouTube.. I personally would watch it on netflix! Click here for Movie
Akele Hum Akele Tum
Storyline: Rohit Kumar (Aamir Khan) is an aspirant playback singer while Kiran (Manisha Koirala) is a classical singer-in-training, but inside aims to be some thing like Rohit. They meet, relate to each other’s sentiments and fall in love. But when Kiran’s parents oppose their marriage, they decide to lead a separate life. However, after their marriage, Kiran’s ambitions take a back seat as she feels suppressed by her household responsibilities and her child to look after. Time fails to abate Kiran’s frustration until she decides to leave Rohit and start a new life all over again. Now a loner, Rohit is forced to look after both his son and his falling career on his own. After some obvious teething troubles, Rohit succeeds in creating a separate world of their own with Sonu, his son. Meanwhile, Kiran incidentally becomes a huge film star. When her attempts to reconcile with Rohit backfire, she decides to call the marriage off and also files a case demanding Sonu’s custody. But Rohit is not giving up without a battle for his rights as a father.
– It doesn’t mention this in the storyline but she leaves the guy and her kid behind and gets this whole new life to start over and makes it as a singer and actress, something she’s always wanted and actually makes it big time. it’s a different kind of romance but I still like this one.
Raja
Storyline: Rana Mahednra Pratap Garewal (Mukesh Khanna) is a wealthy businessman along with his brother Vishwa (Dalip Tahil). They are both good friends with Brijnath (Paresh Rawal) who is not as wealthy. Rana’s younger sister Madhu (Madhuri Dixit) is a good friend of Brijnath’s younger brother Raja (Sanjay Kapoor). Seeing this Rana and Birju both arrange for Raja and Madhu to marry when they are older but Rana quickly backs out and insults Birju because of his social status. A accident causes Birju to become mental. Many years have passed and Raja and Madhu soon meet each other and fall in love. However Rana and Vishwa are determined to keep Madhu away from Raja. Eventually Rana gives in and accepts Raja into the family. When Raja leaves the city for a few days, Birju is invited to stay at the Garewal mansion. However, Madhu accuses Birju of rape when she is attacked by him. Rana immediately sends Birju to a mental hospital and Raja is forced to make a choice between his love and his brother. Believing in Birju innocence he breaks off his engagement with her. Madhu does not know that her own brothes had set Birju up so it looked like he had attacked her but in fact it was someone else who attacked her. Will Madhu find out what her brothers did? Will Raja be re-united with her?
Mohabbatein
Storyline: National Award winner, Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra’s MOHABBATEIN is a film that portrays the battle between love and fear – A battle between two stubborn men and their opposing beliefs. Raj Aryan (Shahrukh Khan), who stands for love, he would go to any lengths for it. Narayan Shankar (Amitabh Bachchan) – voted the Millennium star in the BBC polls) a strict disciplinarian as the head of India’s most prestigious educational institute who stands for fear, he believes that love leads to pain and weakness. It is also the story of 3 young men and women who have to learn to follow their hearts against all the odds and the outcome of their love stories that will decide what will finally triumph. .. love or fear.
Click Here For Full Movie Available on Amazon Prime. if you don’t have amazon prime its also available on iTunes, Apple TV and Youtube.
I hope you guys love these movies as much as I do!! I know they are not your typical American Movie but I promise they have some amazing love stories that really tug at your heart strings. In my personal opinion the top 3 movies I listed are BY FAR the best ones. so any of those 3 will just about do it for ya lol. love y’all and thank you for being here with me. xoxo
-Vanessa