HIGHLY-RATED films about unrequited love? (Please read description!) - Page 3

Few i can think of...

Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (i like Amitabh and Rakhee jodi)

Yeh Dillagi (Saif - Kajo.... i did like this jodi)

Aahista Aahista (Abhay Deol - Soha Ali Khan)

Saawariya (Ranbir - Sonam)

New York (Neil - Katrina... and the song Tune Jo Na Kaha)

Lamhe (Anil - Sridevi... Viren loved Pallavi so it can be considered unrequited, even with whatever happened years later... and i do like the Anil-Sridevi jodi)

PK (Aamir - Anushka)

Ram Jaane (SRK - Juhi... another jodi i like)

Not sure if anyone heard of this french movie called Malèna, In Sicily, during the Second World War, a teenage boy gets smitten by Malena, a sensual woman living in a small town.

But what we come to understand is, The aged Renato reflects that he has known and loved many women and has forgotten all of them. The only one he can never forget is Malèna.

Originally posted by: ffkhan

From Hollywood, you can watch Roman Holiday. A classic example for an unrequited love story. Audrey Hepburn won Oscar for the film.

Wonderful movie but the love is unfulfilled rather than unrequited. She put duty over love but she did love.

Originally posted by: Talis

Wonderful movie but the love is unfulfilled rather than unrequited. She put duty over love but she did love.

That's what also called unrequited love by definition😊

Originally posted by: ffkhan

That's what also called unrequited love by definition😊

Unrequited means not reciprocated - one sided.

Originally posted by: ffkhan

Raanjhanaa

A best example for a movie on unrequited love. I felt for Dhanush's character, he literally sacrificed his whole self while loving the girl he truly cared about. And in return got nothing😭💔

did he not emotionally blackmail her into dating him by cutting his wrist honestly such behavior is problematic

Drive - So loved the actor 😭

Ahista Ahista 💔

500 days of summer. One of the most realistic movies i have come across.

So, it's not highly rated. But it's a fun movie - When we first met. It's on Netflix.

Also, I think The Hunchback of Notre Dame will count.

Raanjhana was probably one of the most successful movies about unrequited love. Dhanush was incredibly charming as Kundan. He garnered a lot of sympathy for Kundan. But when you look back on the movie and reflect on it realistically - it is deeply problematic. The character of Zoya is unfairly vilified.

Zoya is not interested in Kundan. Yet he persists again and again and again, despite being slapped. If this happened in real life we would be really scared and disturbed by the stalker. Her eventually finding Kundan endearing is almost Stockholm syndrome-like after he metaphorically holds her hostage to his persistence for years.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with her rejecting Kundan due to religious differences but wanting to marry Jasjeet despite religious differences and going out of her way for it. Marriage is a huge commitment and you have to meet the right person. Is it surprising that she did not find her stalker worth committing her life to? She probably made up the religious excuse to let him down easy and wasn't genuinely ever into him. Breaking up and rejecting people is awkward and most humans come up with excuses, sometimes untrue to let down people they aren't interested in.

Is it that shocking that when she actually fell in love with someone on her own accord she was willing to lie and risk everything? People do that when they genuinely love someone. It is not her fault that she fell for Jasjeet, not Kundan. People are not compelled to reciprocate everyone's feelings. And Kundan gets himself into the mess. She had rejected him years ago and forgotten about him. He inserts himself into her life again when he could have been a grown-up and walked away. He is actually so self-obsessed that he is willing to ruin Zoya's and Bindiya's life because he didn't get his way. We should be furious at him for hurting Bindiya and getting Jasjeet killed - but the movie manipulates us into feeling bad by focusing on his guilt instead of everyone else's pain.

The final act of the movie is the complete gaslighting of Zoya. There is nothing more toxic than expecting a woman to forgive her lifelong stalker and the man who had the love of her life killed. It is infuriating that the narrative paints Zoya as a bad person for holding onto a grudge and minimizes the transgressions of Kundan.

These things happen. Both men and women sometimes do spend a lifetime obsessing over someone who is not interested. I don't think there is anything wrong in making a movie of this one-sided obsessive love. But it should never be romanticized. Kundan's ultimate demise should have been the price of his crimes and not martyrdom. SRK was sympathetic in both Darr and Anjaam that at moments we do root for him - but the narrative is very clear in the fact that he is a villain who is hurting others in his obsession.