I have never been bitten by a movie bug. When people ask me if I have watched the latest movie, my answer is usually negative. Growing up, my brother and I used to watch movies with Mum. Her friends and their children used to accompany and it was usually a big gang up to watch the latest movie in town. However, Papa hardly watched one in theater. His point was that he did not want to be spotted by his students watching a senseless Bollywood masala movie.
So, it was never a craze back home to watch the new released one. Neither then, nor now. I am more bring-the-movie-to-me kind of person. VT and I usually watch it on TV or get DVDs from friends to watch the ones that made news. It’s not what you are concluding right now. I do watch movies and I love if they have a story and message that I can take back to my life.
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- The Karate Kid
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Captain Phillips
- The Hundred Food Journey
- Nil Batte Sannata (Hindi)
- The Intern
There are more that I love but the above are the ones I can watch again and again. How about you? Which one is your favorite? Share the name of one in the comments below and if I haven’t watched it, I will.
This is post #4 of the 2nd edition of #BarAThon.
happiness and food 
The pursuit of happyness is my favourite too and figures top of my list. I have a downloaded print in my laptop and I have watched it numerous times over the last 10 years. Still can watch it anyday. The 2nd movie on my list will be English Vinglish and my list will end at these 2.
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That’s a good list, Parul.
I love watching movies that make sense, have some story, and characters that we can relate to, and even, maybe, learn something from.
I have a few favourites: Chef, The holiday, The devil wears Prada, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Dil Dhadakne Do, and quite a many more. Do watch these if you haven’t already. I am sure you will enjoy these, too! 🙂
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Love that list, Parul. 1,3,4 and 7 are the ones that I’ve seen from that list! There are so many great movies I agree. I could watch Big Fish, The Green Mile, The English Patient, Chocolat over and over again. In case you’re interested, they are well worth a try, sometime.
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I think that I remember watching Pursuit of Happiness and haven’t watched Nil Batte Sannata. I am a Hindi movie buffs and haven’t watched many Hollywood movies, except that Godfather remains a favorite, Inception is another one I love, Shakespeare in Love.
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Love watching movies parul; my all time favourite is Sound of Music – I don’t mind watching any time. I like even the karate kid what you mentioned. The others are some entertainment for me is DDLJ,3 IDIOTS,Taare Zameen par, kuch kuch hota hai, recently liked Dangal to name a few. A few telugu/tamil movies of Kamal Haasan I don’t know whether you watch hindi /telugu/tamil. I like good scripts and some entertainment.
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I am like you, Parul. I don’t rush out to watch the latest movies. In fact, I don’t really watch movies or TVs at all. The ones I enjoyed during my childhood were the Adam Sandler movies, like Happy Gilmore. Mr Bean was also a movie I liked. Also, I enjoy many of the classic Disney Movies like The Lion King and Aladdin. It sounds relaxing, just you and VT together at home relaxing in front of the TV watching a movie 😀
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I have watched just two of those Parul. Need to get to Nil Bate Sannata. Have heard good things about it. I have a long lit of favourites but what comes to mind right away is The Holiday. You’ll love it.
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I have watched only the first two from your list they are pretty awesome movies. My favorite genre is science fiction, I can’t handle intense real life based stories 😊 I love your dad’s excuse… Hehehe it’s so cute.
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I have seen The Pursuit of Happyness, The Hundred Food Journey, Nil Batte Sannata (Hindi), The Intern. All my favourites! 🙂
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I have watched The Pursuit of Happyness and The Karate Kid from your list and they are truly wonderful movies. Both are so inspiring and give so much to chew on. Have heard about Nil Batte Sannata, hope to watch it sometimes soon!
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I loved The Hundred Foot Journey and The Intern. I’ll need to check out the others.
I did a movie post on my A-Z Library Love theme this year. I love all these movies – maybe you’d like them, too.
http://afieldtriplife.com/10-amazing-movies-filmed-in-libraries-atozchallenge/
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Awesome! I’ll check these out Claire. Thanks.
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Some good choices there…I enjoyed the Intern even though it supposedly didn’t do well. Some of my favourites include Little Miss Sunshine, American History X, Crash
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I’ll check these out Sanch! Thanks.
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Honestly, I have watched none of them. So maybe I should watch them now after reading this.
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In that case, start with the Karate Kid. Keeps being aired on Tv. Let me know how you find it 🙂
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Have watched Captain Philip, karate kid and pursuit of happiness. All are impactful and in the #mustwatch list. I also loved ‘Life in a metro’ , “Queen”
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