I don’t know about you, but I love movies that make me cry. Each time I emerge from the theater having both laughed and cried, I know that I have watched a fully satisfying, enjoyable, paisa vasool movie. And if friends laugh at my tear soaked eyes and sorry little sniffles, I don’t care! Here are some movies that are guaranteed to make you cry (unless you’re a hardhearted so and so like some of my friends) some in a happy way; some in a heart wrenching, sad, why-is-life-so-unfair way.
Masoom
Tujhse Naraaz Naheen
Who didn’t sob in time to tujhse naaraaz nahi zindagi and dissolve into a wet hanky at the sight of Jugal Hansraj’s soulful, innocent eyes! You didn’t? You have no soul.
Bombay
Hindu-Muslim love story in the middle of the ’96 riots.
My cousin claimed to watch me more than the movie as I soaked up one after another hanky. The themes of national integration, the generosity of the human spirit and the triumph of love over all else… what’s not to make you weep!
Taare Zameen Par
The misunderstood dyslexic child
The heart wrenching pain of the misunderstood child confronted by the cruel teacher and the frustrated parent and the ultimate empathy and understanding of that unhappy child… and then that song, Maa! If none of that made you breakout the waterworks, you clearly lack a heart.
Rang de Basanti
Every one dies!
Those reckless, feckless young people coming of age, finding a purpose in life; opposing ideologies finding common ground, the military hero dying because of callous officials and martyrdom for a noble cause… a sob fest of the very best, most uplifting and memorable sort!
Anand
Babumoshai!
Fortitude in the face of tragedy is always a tearjerker cinematic device and the Babumoshai! movie did it brilliantly. From the song kahin door jab din dhal jaaye to that last scene where Rajesh Khanna’s recorded voice resonates after his death; the movie had some of the most poignant and heart wrenching of scenes in Hindi cinema.
Agneepath (The Hrithik Roshan Version)
The new Vijay Dinanath Chahaun
OK, so it’s not a regular tearjerker but the brother-sister relationship track; the death of the sweetheart incident, Hrithik Roshan’s vulnerable, tear drenched eyes and most of all, it was that Sonu Nigam song Abhi mujhme kahin that made it necessary for me to emerge from the theater with my dark glasses on even though it was nighttime.
Agneepath (The original)
The original Vijay Dinanath Chauhan
There really is no one like the Big B playing the original and ever so dangerous Vijay Dinanath Chauhan (hein!). In the end after he has defeated Kaancha Cheena and he finally lays his battered body down with his head in his mother’s lap and delivers his final words….oh my god! The tears will not stop.
Rockstar
Wow!
They don’t realize their love for each other until she is married. He makes the tortured music of the helpless lover. She has cancer; his love makes her a little better but then she dies and he makes some more beautiful, tortured music! A true tear jerker of our times!
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
It’s the little girl! Munni makes us cry.
Yes a happy movie but a right tearjerker nevertheless! So what if the movie was cheesy in parts, the feel good factor was so high, the bravery of our simple hero and the heartrending little mute girl finally speaking her first words at the end so wonderfully heartening that it was a three hanky movie at the very least!
Author – Reena Daruwalla
