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Plot Summary:
Bunny, a pizza delivery boy is blamed by Madhumati, a calm and serious girl, of ruining her education and being responsible for an upcoming unwanted marriage. Left with no other option, Bunny chooses to help her by ploying a story to the would-be groom and in the process is forced to share a flat with her. But did Madhumati really forgive Bunny?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Varsham (2004)
Plot Summary:
Venkat and Sailaja are youngsters at Warangal who fall in love. Bhadranna is the most dreaded and ruthless landlord in Nizam area. Bhadranna also likes Sailaja and wants to marry her. Ranga Rao, Sailaja's dad, is a typical black sheep having all kinds of bad habits. In the process, he is ready to marry off his daughter to Bhadranna for money. Ranga Rao plants certain ego problems in the minds of Venkat and Sailaja and then paves a way for their love to break up. Later on Bhadranna kidnaps Sailaja. The rest of the story is all about how Venkat brings back Sailaja from the bastion of Bhadranna and how he clears off the misunderstanding with Sailaja in the process.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags:
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Badrinath (2011)
Plot Summary:
BadrI, a warrior and the protector of Badrinath temple, tries to revive Alakananda's faith in God. But certain circumstances lead his Guru to believe he's in love with her, causing bigger trouble for him. But in order to fulfill his promise, Badri fights back against Alakananda's cruel uncle, with the same pledge he had taken for the protection of religion and the people.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: epic, sexy
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Sarrainodu (2016)
Plot Summary:
Only one man can stop a villain who, backed by his father, brutally murders anyone who gets in the way of his unscrupulous real estate deals.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating
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Nenu Local (2017)
Plot Summary:
This story is about a happy-go-lucky young man, Babu, who falls in love with a girl. However, he runs into a problem while convincing her father to permit them to be together.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags:
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Gharana Mogudu (1992)
Plot Summary:
Gharana Mogudu is a remake of tamil movie Mannan and it is a drama based movie in which, Raju (Chiranjeevi) is a do-gooder who helps his fellow co-workers while working in Visakhapatnam shipyard, but when his mother suffers a paralytic stroke, he moves back to Hyderabad and looks for a job.Uma Devi (Nagma) daughter of industrialist Bapineedu (Raogopal Rao) takes over the business from her father and helps it to reach new heights which also sees her head strongness reach new heights as well. In this scenario, she not only rejects Ranganayakulu.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags:
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Athaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu (1989)
Plot Summary:
When young Rekha falls in love with unemployed Kalyan, her high-hat mother, Chamundeshwari, disapproves of the match and devises numerous schemes to drive the lovebirds apart. But Kalyan proves a tougher adversary than Chamundeshwari expects, and soon an intense battle of wills ensues.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags:
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Pelli Choopulu (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with his carefree attitude, Prasanth's father fixes his marriage to make him responsible. However, meeting an ambitious girl changes his life for the better.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: inspirational, romantic, feel good, independent film
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A Aa (2016)
Plot Summary:
The love affair, conspired by creation, between Anasuya Ramalingam and Aanand Vihari.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: entertaining
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Race Gurram (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ram and Lakshman a.k.a Lucky are brothers. Ram is a sincere guy who grows up to become an honest cop. Lucky is a happy-go-lucky guy who enjoys life. Ram and Lucky have a tom and jerry kind of fight going on. Siva Reddy is a factionist who wants to become a politician. Ram gathers evidence against Siva Reddy and Lucky unintentionally intercepts them. The rest of the story is all about the race between Lucky and Siva Reddy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, tense, light, captivating, realistic
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Bheeshma (2020)
Plot Summary:
Bheeshma Prasad, a simple meme creator has his life turned around when he wages a war against a powerful agro company that creates harmful chemicals to increase the crop yield and make more money.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, emotional, talky
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I've Started to Like You (2002)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a rich criminal industrial tycoon falls in love with a college boy. The tycoon, what a surprise, objects.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, captivating, suspenseful
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Desamuduru (2007)
Plot Summary:
Desamuduru is a 2007 Telugu film, dubbed into Malayalam and Tamil as Hero: The Real Hero, and Hindi as Ek Jwalamukhi. The film has Allu Arjun and Hansika Motwani in the lead. The film was directed by Puri Jagannadh. D.V.V. Danaiah produced Desamuduru under the Universal Media banner. The movie was released on 12 January 2007 in 400 theatres.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense
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Paiyaa (2010)
Plot Summary:
Shiva, an engineering graduate, is not serious about his job or future even when his friends advise him about life. He falls in love with a girl he saw at a bus stop and finally gets to ride with her in a car.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, exciting, tense, feel good, humorous, realistic, action packed, road movie
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Ramayya Vasthavayya (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nandu, a happy-go-lucky college student falls head over heels in love with Akarsha and goes all out to woo her. But only after Akarsha falls for him does she realize that he has revenge on his mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Kick 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A doctor living abroad returns to India to sell his property, where he falls in love with a woman who tries to get him to help the people in her village.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Darling (2010)
Plot Summary:
Prabhas (Prabhas) has a childhood sweetheart named Nandini (Kajal Agarwal) and they are separated during their childhood. Nandini migrates to Swiss along with her father. Meanwhile Prabhas rejects love proposals from other girls as his heart belongs to Nandini. Prabhas gets a chance to meet Nandini for the first time after the separation during the reunion of their respective parents who have studied together. The rest of the story is all about how Prabhas wins the love of Nandini.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, light, sincere, humorous
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Most Eligible Bachelor (2021)
Plot Summary:
A well-educated, ‘settled’ NRI falls for a stand-up comedian and wants to marry her. But when she knows what she wants from her husband, will he fit the bill?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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Arya (2004)
Plot Summary:
Arya (Allu Arjun) is a happy-go-lucky, college-going youth with an attitude. He falls in love with Geeta (Anuradha Mehta) at first sight. He proposes to her in front of her boyfriend Siva. She bluntly refuses. The theme of the film is Arya's philosophy in life--one way love. While he keeps extolling and spreading the virtues of his philosophy, he also teases Geeta's boyfriend at every available opportunity about why he should fee threatened by Arya's one-sided attempts to woo the uninterested Geeta, if Siva so strongly believes in the bond of true love between them. What follows is a comic roller coaster. The rest of the film is all about how Arya wins Geeta with his positive outlook.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Salt N' Pepper (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kalidasan, a foodie, receives a phone call not intended for him. He finds that the person at the other end, Maya, is also fond of food and cooking. Soon they develop feelings for each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good
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Bodyguard (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lovely Singh (Salman Khan) is the bodyguard of Sartaj Rana's (Raj Babbar) daughter Divya Rana (Kareena Kapoor). He is very devoted to his duties but irritates her all the time by following her everywhere. Consequently, Divya and her friend (Hazel Keech) call Lovely and start a prank love affair. Lovely starts loving the mystery person but doesn't realizes that it is Divya (who also falls in love with him) who was behind all of this. Sartaj Rana (Raj Babbar) suspects him and Divya to be in love and sends criminals to kill him in case his lover turns out to be Divya. Sensing this, Divya sends her friend to Lovely to tell him her true identity. In a twist, it is revealed that the friend is also in love with Lovely. She falsely accepts that she is her strange lover. They marry and have a child. She dies early and reveals to her son about her fraud and asks him to unite Lovely and Divya.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, humorous, realistic, entertaining, romantic, scenic, fast
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Mirapakai (2011)
Plot Summary:
Rishi (Ravi Teja) is an inspector in the Intelligence Bureau. His colleagues fondly call him 'Mirapakaay'. The chief of the IB, Narayana Murthy (Nagababu) gets information that Kittu Bhai (Prakash Raj), a mafia don, is trying to spread his tentacles in India and is targeting Delhi first. During the course of the investigation, ACP (Sanjay Swaroop) is killed by Shankar (Kota Srinivasa Rao), a local goon with the help of his son (Supreet). Murthy sends Rishi to Hyderabad and gets him admitted to a college as a Hindi lecturer as part of an undercover operation. Rishi meets Vinamra (Richa Gangopadhyay) at a temple & falls in love at first sight. Incidentally, she studies in the same college and in the same class to which Rishi teaches Hindi. Their love blossoms. At this juncture, Vaishali (Deeksha Seth), daughter of Kittu Bhai, joins the same college. Grabbing the opportunity, the IB chief asks Rishi to extract information about Kittu from Vaishali.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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Geetha Govindam (2018)
Plot Summary:
Vijay Govind, a young college lecturer who dreams of marriage falls for Geetha, a level-headed woman who's wary of strangers and isn't easy to convince. While things seem to go smoothly, Vijay makes a terrible mistake which not only derails any hope for his love story, but also potential repercussions with his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: captivating, romantic drama
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Mr Perfect (2011)
Plot Summary:
Vicky breaks his engagement with Priya, his childhood friend, after he learns that she is making many compromises for his sake. However, time makes him realise the need for compromises in life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, semi serious
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Aarya 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two young boys staying together at an orphanage become friends. One of them is adopted by a wealthy family and grows up to become the owner of a software company. He provides employment for his friend, but when they both fall in love with the same young woman, conflict emerges.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, romantic
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Orange (2010)
Plot Summary:
Orange is a 2010 Telugu romantic comedy film directed by Bhaskar, in his third venture after Bommarillu and Parugu. The film features Ram Charan Teja and Genelia D'Souza with Shazahn Padamsee playing a pivotal role. The film, which has music composed by Harris Jayaraj began the first schedule in February 2010,[1] and released on November 26, 2010. Set on the backdrop of Australia, the film opens with an angry Ram (Ram Charan Teja), who just broke up with his girlfriend, narrating the story of his love life to a police officer, Abhishek Verma (Prakash Raj) as he defaces a graffiti of his lover while her father (Prabhu Ganesan) listens.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic
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100% Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Balu (Naga Chaitanya) is a brilliant student and always tops his class. Maha Lakshmi (Tamanna) is maradalu of Balu and she comes from village and stays in Balu’s house to do her graduation in the same college. Balu has the typical ego possessed by state rankers and he is obsessed by it. His studies get disturbed with the entry to Maha Lakshmi as she starts dominating him over a period of time. This leads to differences and ego clashes between Balu and Maha Lakshmi. There is also a subplot of two separated grand parents. The rest of the story is all about how Balu and Mahalakshmi realise that they are made for each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, intellectual, feel good, romantic, realistic, semi serious
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Sachien (2005)
Plot Summary:
A happy-go-lucky college student falls in love with a beautiful young woman at first sight, but decides to use a unique approach to get close to her, as she has many admirers in the college. How will their relationship evolve?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing, romantic
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Bommarillu (2006)
Plot Summary:
Siddu is the son of an over-protective business man. Every decision of his is made by his father, which leads him into frustration. He half-heartedly agrees to become engaged to a rich man's daughter, but then falls for a middle-class man's daughter called Hasini. The film focuses on his realization that he has to stand on his own and come out of his father's protective shell- and try to succeed in love.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, humorous, realistic, emotional, romantic comedy, touching
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Chennai Express (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rahul embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a woman hailing from a unique family down South. As they find love through this journey in the exuberant lands of South India, an unanticipated drive awaits them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, semi serious, funny, romantic, entertaining, fast, masala, humorous
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Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends being convinced that they are not in love search for each other's love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, romantic, funny, light