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Plot Summary:
Vikram Mayur, a wealthy Indian, born and raised in England, returns to his ancestral home in Bombay, India to look up his late brother's eight-year-old son Nandu raised by his caring aunt Bijuriya in which Vikram is torn between choosing to take Nandu back to England to learn his family's business, or risk throwing it all way by staying in India to be with Bijuriya whom he slowly falls in love with.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Life of Devotion (1969)
Plot Summary:
Vandana and Arun fall in love the instant they meet. On a trip to a Shiv temple, they get married in an impromptu ceremony in front of God. A chance rainshower strands them at a remote hotel where Vandana gets pregnant. With their legal marriage just around the corner, they don't worry about the consequences of their actions, but unfortunately, Arun dies in a plane crash. Vandana chooses to have the child, Suraj, and as she promised to Arun, wants to raise him to be an Air Force pilot. Fate is cruel to Vandana, however, and the child is adopted by a wealthy family. Vandana becomes a nursemaid to stay close to Suraj. A family member tries to molest her, and in the ensuing fight, Suraj comes to protect her and kills the perpetrator. Vandana chooses a jail sentence to save Suraj, but in the course of her sentence, loses the family--and with it: Suraj. Now what will Vandana do? To find out, watch Aradhana. Written by bollykm.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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The Dilemma (2005)
Plot Summary:
Kishanlal marries the beautiful Lachchi, but the day after the wedding, he leaves on business for five years. When Kishanlal reappears only a few days later, Lachchi is delighted, but this new Kishanlal is in fact a spirit who has taken the form of Lachchi's husband, after having seen her by chance and fallen in love with her. Four years later, the real Kishanlal returns and the townsfolk must determine who is who.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, semi serious, captivating, powerful, folk tale
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Khamoshi: The Musical (1996)
Plot Summary:
Goa based Joseph Braganza and his wife Flavy, devout Catholics, are both deaf and mute. He makes a living selling soap bars door to door. Flavy gets pregnant and gives birth to a daughter who they name Annie, who can speak and hear much to their delight. Flavy soon gives birth to a son, Sam, who can also hear and speak. A few years later, Sam accidentally passes away, making Joseph lose faith. Joseph, unable to make a living selling soap, opens a toy making factory and the family prospers. Annie grows up, takes to music and singing in a great way, meets with a young man named Raj and both fall in love. Joseph dislikes Raj, mainly because he is Hindu, is able to speak and hear, not a resident of Goa, and the fear of losing Annie forever and thus their contact with the world. When Annie gets pregnant, Joseph is enraged, he asks her to abort, when she refuses, he asks her to leave his house. What will Annie do next? Will Joseph, Flavy and Annie ever re-unite.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Game (1992)
Plot Summary:
Widowed Sulakshana Devi is a wealthy industrialist and lives a very wealthy, though hectic lifestyle with her only son, Ravi, and nephew, Balwant. While returning from overseas, she is told that Ravi has met with an accident and has been killed. This news does devastate her, but she soon recovers. Then years later, she meets with a young man, Arun Kumar, who was able to retrieve her purse from a thief. Sulakshana finds out that he is unemployed and has not eaten for days. She decides to hire him, not knowing that Arun is a actually a con man, who will do his best to woo her to inherit her estate and Crores of Rupees. Sulakshana also does not know that Ravi did not die accidentally, but was killed by someone who sabotaged his car. Things will get more complicated when a woman named Seema and her uncle enter her life - for a devious reason.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, Kenya
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Josh (2000)
Plot Summary:
Shah Rukh Khan and Sharad Kapoor are the leaders of the two rival gangs. Aishwarya Rai is Shah Rukh Khan's twin sister. Shah Rukh is in love with Priya Gill. Chandrachur Singh is Sharad Kapoor's younger brother who studies in a catering college in Bombay. He comes to Goa to visit his brother and plans to go back and start a restaurant there. He sees Aishwarya and falls in love with her. Chandrachur gives up the idea of going back to Bombay and opens a bakery in Goa. When Shah Rukh comes to know about the romance between Aishwarya and Chandrachur, the fight between the gang turns more violent. How the conflict is resolved is the rest of the story. Written by gavin@[email protected].
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, captivating, exciting, melancholic, romantic, hot, nostalgic
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Hero No. 1 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rajesh Malhotra (Govinda) is the son of a wealthy businessman Dhanraj Malhotra (Kader Khan). However, he is not happy at his home since his father does not let him live his life his way. He escapes from his home and reaches Europe. Meena (Karishma Kapoor) is the granddaughter of Dinanath (Paresh Rawal) and has secured a scholarship to study in Europe. She travels to Europe with her aunt Shannu (Himani Shivpuri).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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King Uncle (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ashok Bansal has a traumatic childhood which teaches him that money matters most to people, even more than their kids. Ashok starts hating poor people & starts working hard to get out of poverty, at the expense of his own family. However, Ashok’s life changes forever when Munna enters his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Game of Love (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sapna, the daughter of the Saigal family's driver is a simple fun-loving girl, but her dreams are not as simple. She dreams about riches and day-dreams about her dream man. Vijay Saigal and Vicky Saigal, both heirs to Saigal Industries have almost all the qualities of a dream man. Almost. Because "All work and no play" makes Vijay a dull boy and "All play and no work" makes Vicky and outrageous flirt, as he does not believe in the affairs of the hearts, but only in affairs. But then even Sapna is not made of the stuff, dream girls are made of. Not until she becomes a successful model and transforms into a beautiful girl. That's when she become Vicky's dream girl. But Sapna's success hasn't changed her status. She is still the driver's daughter and Mrs. Shanti Devi may overlook her son's affairs with rich girls but not with a driver's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, remake of american film
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Let's Fall in Love... Again (2006)
Plot Summary:
College nerd, Agastya Rao alias Champu, has a crush on Piya Goel, and is thrilled when she invites him to a dance, only to be heart-broken when he finds out that she really digs another guy. Years later, when he finds out that his college sweetheart is about to divorce her husband, decides to try his hand at wooing her. He gets the unsolicited help of one-time Bollywood wonder Suhaan Kapoor, who accompanies Agastya to New York, assists him in successfully wooing and proposing to Piya. On the night of their engagement, Agastya will find out that Suhaan only wanted to help him because of Section 25 of the Hindu Marriage Act - so that could relieve him of the financial burden of paying alimony to Piya, who was the girl he had secretly married much against the wishes of the entire Goel clan. Watch what happens when Suhaan finds out that he has a daughter named Suhaani - and that he still has strong feelings about Piya.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, emotional, semi serious, romantic, crying, powerful, spoof, parody
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Chameli's Marriage (1986)
Plot Summary:
Charandas, a young man in a village has no aim in life except to be a pehelwaan (wrestler). He takes an oath that he will not court or marry a girl until he hits the age of forty. But things changes when Charandas meets Chameli and falls in love with her. A hilarious take on the caste system of India, as both of them come from different castes and try hard to marry each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Main Hoon Na (2004)
Plot Summary:
An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, masala, light, realistic, parody
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Crazy (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kajal is a beautiful and talented young woman who loves songs and dances and attends various shows. At one of the shows she attended she gets to meet Ravi, a popular singer and both are head over heel in love with each other and they soon got married. Kajal relocates to Ravi's parental mansion and is all welcome as a bride there. But soon her marriage life goes over the board when Ravi's scheming cousin and uncle has him killed. Unable to bear the shock Kajal relocates to a different city and gets to meet the wealthy and care-free Raja Sahai, who proposes marriage to her but she refuses and wants to live as Ravi's widow but destiny has other plans for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sunil belongs to a middle-class family, and is intent in pursuing his career with a music group, despite of his dad disapproval. Sunil is also in love with Anna, but Anna does not really love him, but likes him as a friend. Sunil is persistent, but instead Anna openly declares her love for Chris. In order to impress his dad, Sunil forges his examination results, but then later confesses to his family, who receive this news in utter dismay. Will this change Sunil's ways? Will Anna change her mind about Sunil or will she get married to Chris?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: inspirational, romantic, epic, emotional, cult classic, powerful, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Those Seven Days (1983)
Plot Summary:
Maya, coming from poor family, is married to the affluent Dr. Anand; but she tries to commit suicide on the nuptial night. She tells Anand that she was in love with Prem whose ambition was to be a music director. He too was in love with her but thought she would not be happy as his wife. Anand tells Maya that he had married her only for his mother who was on her death bed. When the mother dies Anand wants to unite Prem and Maya but Prem says it is against Hindu culture and disappears from their life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain (1999)
Plot Summary:
Vishwanath is a multi-millionaire industrialist, who lives in a palatial house, with his only chid, a son named Vijay. Vijay has been literally born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and indulges in life's temptations and weaknesses to the extreme. Vishwanath would like his son to get married and be responsible. Vijay agrees to get married on condition that his future bride sign an agreement that the marriage is on a trial basis for one year, and thereafter is Vijay does not fall in love with her, the marriage gets annulled. Vishwanath asks his personal assistant, Megha, to quit her job and marry Vijay, but Megha refuses. Megha comes from a poor family, consisting of her mom, two other sisters, and one brother. Written by Shrikant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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When Love Calls (1989)
Plot Summary:
Karan (Alok Nath) lives in a small house with his only daughter, Suman (Bhagyashree). He decides to travel overseas in Dubai, in the Persian Gulf, so that he can accumulate enough wealth to get his daughter married. He decides to leave his daughter with his friend, Kishen Kumar choudhury (Rajiv Verma), wife Mrs. Kaushalya (Reema Lagoo), and son Prem (Salman Khan). Prem is supposed to marry Seema (Pervin Dastur), who is the only daughter of Kishen's business partner, Ranjeet (Ajit Vachani). But Prem falls in love with Suman. He woos her until she also falls in love with him. Kaushalya approves of Suman, but Kishan does not, and asks her to get out of his house and life, as he feels that she has taken advantage of his hospitality. Karan returns and is enraged at Kishan's behaviour. Prem is unhappy with his dad's decision, and he decides to leave home and be near Suman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic drama, mesmerizing, touching, captivating, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Dilwale (2015)
Plot Summary:
Raj is a Mafia member. One day he meet a girl (Meera) while chasing by his rival gang and falls in love with her. Later he finds out that this girl is the daughter of the leader of his rival gang. Yet their love story continues until he was shot by his girlfriend upon a deep misunderstanding. After that incident these two lovers lives separate until their siblings fallen in love. With this new love story their paths intertwines again.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, exciting, sincere, fast
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Chalte Chalte (2003)
Plot Summary:
Priya Chopra is a fashion designer and Raj Mathur owns a small trucking company. They meet on the road, quarrel, and then fall for each other. Priya, who is already engaged, must decide whether she will marry her fiancé or leave him for Raj. Love triumphs, Raj and Priya marry and then begins the struggle to maintain their marriage in the face of the typical problems the world can throw at them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: sincere, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, romantic, entertaining, sexy, hot
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Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam (2002)
Plot Summary:
Radha and Suraj have been friends since childhood. Gopal has been in love with Radha ever since they spent a few years together as kids. Years later, Gopal's guardian proposes to Radha a marriage with Gopal, and she accepts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, emotional, realistic, romantic drama
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Yes Boss (1997)
Plot Summary:
There are lots of poor people in India who want to get rich soon. A woman named Seema is one of them. She is very beautiful and has an admirer by the name of Sidharth. This man is very rich, and says he wants to marry Seema. But Seema finds out that he is already married, and has no intention to marry her. He assures her that he does not love his wife, and will divorce her, and then marry Seema. Then there is the story of another poor person, a man by the name of Rahul. Rahul is also an admirer of Seema. But Rahul works for Sidharth. Rahul knows that Sidharth is going to betray Seema and have an affair with someone else very soon. Rahul also knows that Seema wants to get rich very quickly. How will be convince her about Sidharth? Rahul is also afraid If Sidharth finds out he will fire Rahul, thus he will remain a poor man all his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: entertaining, romantic, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, remake of american film
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Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Playboy's past catches up with him, when he wants to get married.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Shaadi Ke Side Effects (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young couple who struggle to rediscover love after their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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No Entry (2005)
Plot Summary:
Kishen is a newspaper baron married to Kaajal, a housewife who suspects her husband of having numerous non-existent affairs. Pooja is the believing wife of ever-philandering globe-trotting businessman Prem. Kishen and Prem are thick pals. Sanjana falls in love with Prem's loyal photographer Sunny and they get engaged. Kishen gets tired of his jealous wife and tries to have an affair with Bobby, a call girl. Due to circumstances, Bobby is introduced as the wife of Kishen during Sanjana's wedding, and as Sunny's wife to Kaajal. It becomes a bundle of confusions when all three couples meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny
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Something Is Happening (1998)
Plot Summary:
Anjali is left heartbroken when her best friend and secret crush, Rahul, falls in love with Tina. Years later, Tina's young daughter tries to fulfil her mother's last wish of uniting Rahul and Anjali.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious, romantic, entertaining, touching, sad, cult classic, mesmerizing
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Raja Hindustani (1996)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of a handsome young taxi driver, Raja, who falls in love with a beautiful rich girl, Aarti. Despite her family's disapproval Aarti marries Raja and goes to live with him in his village. Aarti's stepmother, uncle and cousin weave a web of deception to split them apart. Will Aarti realize that her stepmother is deceiving her? Will Raja and Aarti ever get back together?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, romantic, entertaining
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Main Aurr Mrs Khanna (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three people, each having different aspirations from life, are caught in a tangle of emotions and don’t know the way out. There’s a husband and wife with love eroding from their life. And there’s a single, happy-go-lucky dude who falls in love with the wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Namastey London (2007)
Plot Summary:
Indian-born Manmohan Malhotra decided to re-locate to London, England, established himself, returned to India, got married to Bebo, and after a period of 4 years got a visa for her so that she could live with him. Shortly thereafter she gave birth to Jasmeet. Manmohan was always embarrassed of Bebo, as she was overly healthy and not quite sophisticated, as a result he always left her at home, while he socialized. Bebo did not want Jasmeet to end up like her, so got her admitted in an English Medium school, encouraged to mingle with Caucasian friends, and as a result Jasmeet was transformed in to Jazz - a stunningly beautiful young woman, British in looks, talk, habits, and heart. Manmohan's plans to get her married to an Indian boy are all in vain. His friend, Parvez Khan, is in a similar situation with his son, Imran, openly romancing a Caucasian blonde, Susan. Manmohan decides to take his family for a tour in India.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, patriotic, cult classic, stylized
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Jab Harry Met Sejal (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a month-long tour of Europe, Sejal is just about to board her flight to India, when she realises that her engagement ring is lost. In quest of the object, she hires the same tour-guide Harry and together they set off visiting the exact same spots that she and her family visited—in the hope of finding the heirloom. Of course the journey proves to be much more….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, colorful, colourful
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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
Plot Summary:
A lonely 40-ish man, likely to remain a bachelor, has a chance to find the love of his life when he falls for a vivacious young woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: emotional, feel good, romantic, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous, inspirational, touching, entertaining
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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
Plot Summary:
Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 189 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, entertaining, feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating