The movie Freak: Love isn't a happily ever after story...usually it...

The movie Freak: Love isn't a happily ever after story...usually it...: Everybody has this perception of this thing ‘tentatively titled Love’ and it manifests in film with its varying expressions and complex d...

Love isn't a happily ever after story...usually it's a once upon a time thing

Everybody has this perception of this thing ‘tentatively titled Love’ and it manifests in film with its varying expressions and complex definitions...honestly the marine food chain seems less intricate! Romantic films as such to me put forth things that appeal to us only because it’s an escapade from the reality which is perhaps not as perfect as we want it to be. So here’s my list of favourite silver screen love stories that don't necessarily make it to every conventional list.

WARNING: The usual expectations of ‘The Notebook’, ‘A walk to remember’, ‘P.S I love you’, ‘When Harry met Sally’ and ‘Serendipity’ etc., won’t be met here but I promise not to disappoint.

10. The perks of being a wallflower: A movie by Stephen Chobsky that stars Logan Legman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller is I hate to use this word ‘coming of age’ because it makes being an adult look less complicated but so is its classification; it’s simply about how confusing things like love and life are and how sometimes we may not exactly know what we think we know.

9. Brokeback Mountain: Anybody who calls this the ‘gay cowboy’ movie better stay out of my way. Revolving around two cowboys Ennis and Jack (played brilliantly by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) is about choices we desire but fear to make and the love story executed so beautifully by Ang Lee moves you, simply can’t miss this one

8. Vertigo: Alfred Hitchcock is maddening to say the least. To lose a loved one can be bearable but twice and due to your fear of heights. Harsh?! Starring James Stewart and Kim Novak...sheer brilliance presented in the genre of a psychological thriller.

7. True romance: OK get past the shocking language, get past the gore and bloodshed and there you have it a Quentin Tarantino love story. Trouble brews for Clarence and Alabama and you have a perfect mix of romance and violence. Don’t miss a brilliant performance in a tiny role by Brad Pitt.

6. Garden state: People you have simply got to love Zach Braff and his script, direction and acting in this movie is in one word AWESOME. So watch this movie to just get rid of the troubled mindsets we carry around until we realise there’s actually no need for it.

5. 500 days of summer:  It started off in the traditional manner of boy meets girl and boy falls in love and the girl umm doesn’t! Starring Zoey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon Levitt this movie by Marc Webb tells us that love necessarily need not reciprocate always the way you want it to.

4. Lost in translation: This movie by Sofia Coppola speaks so much while saying so little. Starring Bill Murray as a bored movie star and Scarlett Johansson as a lonely newlywed stuck in Japan. This movie can mean anything you want it to mean and that’s the true beauty of it.

3. Harold and Maude: You can love this movie or hate it but all it really goes out to show is love doesn’t really conform to any barriers or forms...it’s just love and that’s exactly what happens when a obsessed suicidal 19 year old meets a zealous awesome 79 year old and Hal Ashby presents a realistic picture with his stunning cast especially Ruth Gordon.

2. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind: There isn’t any movie in the world I love more than this Charlie Kaufman masterpiece. Would you erase the person you love out of your memory because you simply can’t take the pain of their shortcomings? Well the eccentric and impulsive Clementine (Kate Winslet) does and Joel does too only to get even but he realises he wants to cherish those memories forever. Whoever said Jim Carrey can't do anything beyond comedy needs to watch this one!

Signing off with a brilliant short film 'I'M HERE' about love that holds no imperfections....

1. There’s no one on this list because you can feel free to put whatever you feel reflects love for you and if I told you mine, where’s the romance in that?! ;)