Top 10 Romantic Movies

Just saw "Valentine's day" movie on Valentine's Day and it got me thinking which were those movies that really made me ache for love or made teary eyed but with a smile. Those simple yet touching movies that made me forget all the sad and gloomy things around. So in answer to that I came up with these ten movies. Rank them as you may like, because all are my favourites so here is my favourite top ten romantic movies.

1.) Titanic
Rose: I love you Jack.
Jack: Don't you do that, don't say your good-byes.
Rose: I'm so cold.
Jack: I don't know about you, but I intend on writing a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all of this. You're gonna go on, and make lots of babies, and watch them grow. You're gonna die an old lady, warm in her bed. Not here, not this night. Do you understand me? Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.
Rose: I promise.
Jack: Never let go.
Rose: I'll never let go. I'll never let go, Jack.


2.) Sense and Sensibility (1995)
I do not have anything to tell because I don't conceal anything. You have nothing to tell because you do not communicate anything.





3.) Notebook
Noah: I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.


4.) Ghost
Molly Jensen: I love you.
Sam Wheat: Ditto.





5.) The Holiday
I have found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said, "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought





6.) Notting hill
William: I live in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are, my mother has trouble remembering my name.
Anna Scott: I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.


7.) Roman holiday
Ann: At midnight, I'll turn into a pumpkin and drive away in my glass slipper.
Joe: And that will be the end of the fairy tale.






8.) Pretty woman
Vivian: "I want the fairy tale"





9.) Pearl Harbour
Evelyn Johnson: I'm giving my heart to Danny. But I'll never look at another sunset without thinking of you.






10.) A walk to remember
Landon: Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.

Its so cute...

The other day while watching the TV I saw the "save our tiger" campaign ad of a tiger cub lost in the jungle and we are left with the echoing sound of a bullet and "Uski Ma lautegi bhi ya nahi" dialog. Seeing the tiger cub I said "Its so cute" To which my husband replies "It looks cute from far".

True, they are one of the most ferocious animals roaming on the face of the earth but can anybody deny the fact that they are just absolutely beautiful and majestic. The last time I saw a real tiger up close was at Bannerghetta National Park, Bangalore. They were just happily posing for the shutterbugs like trained models. Showing off their beauty and strength by trying to climb trees, roaring, circling the van carrying us.

Coming back to that comment, it made me voice my cute tiger cub's thoughts. We say they are ferocious and dangerous but what are we to them. They never kill human beings for fun or as game. Few tigers become man-eater and that too may be because they are too sick or old or wounded to hunt. Otherwise in general they avoid human beings. And mostly the situation is created by man himself by encroaching the tiger's territory for his own purposes.

How many times have we not retaliated angrily when someone stamps us or pushes us in a rush. Then why wouldn't a speechless animal react when we threaten its very existence. It doesn't come into our habitat, we encroach its territory for agricultural or residential purposes. Thereby forcing it to come in contact with the humans.

Tigers are carnivorous animal, they have to kill their prey for their survival. That is how God made them. But why do we kill them... We, who are blessed with the most advanced brain of all species, kill them for pure fun or to adorn the house with their skin or stuffed version or for some other brutal purposes.

Once Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Well the count of our National Animal has dwindled down to 1411, gradually moving towards extinction. Some food for thought.

Do you know in poll conducted by the Animal Planet tigers emerged as the World's favourite animal edging out man's best friend dog.....

Top 10 romantic novels

Let me get this straight in the beginning itself that this my personal top 10 favourite romantic novels of all time. These books are out of the limited books I have read. Any suggestions and recommendations are welcome. The idea is just to enlist some books which would help a beginner to start off somewhere.

1.) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I read this one for the first time when I was in school and since then I have read it umpteen times and still its my favourite. It has numerous adaptations and have inspired number of other works directly or indirectly. It was written and set in the 19th century but still is one the most sought after and loved books even today.

2.) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

I saw the screen adaptation of this first and then read the book. And believe me it was better than the screen adaptation anytime.

Jane Eyre is an orphan who lives with her aunt but doesn't find herself fitting in that family. Emotionally abused by her aunt and banned from the company of her cousins, she finds job to get away from her loneliness where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester.

3.) Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

The movies is good but as always book is better.

4.) Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

Who hasn't heard these characters!!! Its a romantic tragedy about two star-crossed lovers. It has been adapted numerous times for stage, film, musical and opera.

5.) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr.Dashwood by his second wife. When their father dies, the estate passes to John (an older half brother), and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to thier new home, thier romances and heartbreak. Through the events in the novel, Elinor and Marianne find a balance between sense (or pure logic) and sensibility (or pure emotion) in life and love.

6.) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Its the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and around them.

7.) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

It is one of the greatest books ever written in my belief. The book is really about two stories interlaced with each other. One concerns Levin, a small time farmer trying to win over a rich Moscow society lady, while the other story, the main story, concerns Anna, a woman who has an affair with an army officer.

8.) Love Story by Erich Segal

This one is for all those who adore lovey-dovey, mushy romance. Its a romantic story between a Harward and a Radcliff student.

9.) Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell

I read this novel first time when I was in school and I really couldn't digest the fact that Scarlett just goes around marrying people whome she doesnt love at all. And I hated the book. But recently I saw the movie and read it again. And may be the timing was right this time and I could appreciate it much better. So here it is on my top ten list, the hate at first sight and then falling in love gradually book.

10.) Twilight by Stepheni Meyer

This is the only mordern love stories that I felt like including because it just made me feel a teen once again and I felt like falling in love once again. I just fell in love with the Edward character. :)

Its a story about a mere mortal girl, Bella Swan, falling in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. There is one dialog which summarizes it

Edward - And so the lion fell in love with the lamb

Bella - What a stupid lamb

Edward - What a sick, masochistic lion