 Welcome to my channel, I am Arpita Karva and in this video I am going to talk about movies which I really like. So if you remember a few weeks ago I posted a video on my favorite books or I even talked about books which you must read in this New Year. And I got a lot of comments about people saying that ma'am we would also like to know what kind of content you like consuming when it comes to movies. So I would just like to tell you I am a big movie fan. I have been a fan of Bollywood but in this video I am going to stick to my favorite top 5 Bollywood movies and TV shows. Not even Bollywood I would say because I am going to talk about something else as well in this video. So I would rather like to name it as my favorite Hindi movies and TV shows. So I would just like to tell you that there are a lot of other movies which I like. I am not going to do justice to those movies since I am not including them in this video. So there are movies like Hitchki, Chichhore, there are movies like Super 30. I have been reviewing these movies a lot of times on my Instagram. I have been telling my students to watch it whenever they get time. So I am not talking about those inspirational movies they are fantastic. I don't know what to say about them. They are super amazing. But in this video I am going to stick to my favorite like the movies which I can watch 100 times and still never get enough of them. So I am going to talk about those in this particular video. So let's get started. So first in the list is Dear Zindagi. I am sure that those who are following me on Instagram and Facebook they are like we knew it. We have been sharing so much about this movie. So many heart touching lines from these movies that we knew that it is your favorite. So yes you are not mistaken. This is my favorite. And I am going to share the reason why this movie is so close to my heart. So basically it is a story of this girl Kiara played by Alia Bhatt and there is this doctor Jhagir Khan played by Shahrukh Khan. He is a psychologist. Now the story revolves around Kiara. We find that she is a girl who is in her early 20s. She has a lot of aspirations in terms of her career. She wants to be a cinematographer and she has a lot of dreams and aspirations. At the same time her entire life is all like all damaged as in damaged in the sense there are family issues. Then she has gone through a series of break ups. Also the man she loves the most is also impacting her career. So a lot of misunderstanding is happening and her brain cannot take it any further. She goes through a mental breakdown and she doesn't know what to do with her life. So when I look at her character I find that this is what happens with almost every person who is in his or her early 20s. Because we all have a lot of issues. Family issues here, they don't trust us or maybe there are family foundations, regulations which we find very annoying. Then obviously heartbreaks and relationship is the flavor of the day. Also at the same time you find that you try to do so much with your career but nothing is falling into proper place. So your mind is all shattered and then you decide to do something with it. So she meets this psychologist Shahrukh Khan and she decides that I need to go to DD. Now who is DD? DD is the doctor of the mind. So this movie breaks the mental health stigma. The movie shows that we all need somebody who we can go and talk about our life. Because if we have a problem in our body we go to the respective doctors. If I have some issue with my head I might go to a doctor. If there is an issue with my teeth I might go to a dentist. But if we have emotional issues in our mind we never think that we need to go and meet a psychologist and have a session. We just try to fix it up. We never go deep inside and see what is the root cause and this movie does the same. So there is a series of psychology, therapy sessions which happens between Alia Bhatt and Shahrukh Khan and which tells us amazing insights about life. There is a beautiful line which Shahrukh Khan says that when we understand ourselves well then people don't care about what we say. So if you are bothered about what people say about you that means you haven't understood yourself yet. You are just trying to live with that fake mask on your face. That means to break down. A very beautiful movie I think every man and a woman who is in his or her early 20s is going to relate to. Make sure you watch it if you haven't. Next in the list is Wake Up Sid. Now I don't think I have ever seen anybody criticizing this movie. This is such a wonderful movie that no matter who has seen this movie they are going to love it. It's that and I think all of you must have watched it. But still since it's in my favorite list I thought of sharing it with you. So it's a movie about this girl Ayesha and Sid played by Konkana Sen and Ranbir Kapoor. Now Konkana Sen is a very simple girl. She tries to find her independence in a new city, Mumbai. And if you look at her character she's very simple and she's like the girl next door. On the other hand we have Sid who has his own issues. So this man he is from a very rich family so he doesn't want to work, just want to party. And gradually when he looks at Ayesha he understands what true independence really means. And he even takes up a job and then both of them start having a beautiful life together. They start living together. But then what is important and what is beautiful here to understand is that it's a very different love story. It's not like those DDLJ kuch kuch hota hai stories which never happens in our day to day life. This is a story which I think every girl would like to live. It's a very simple, very practical story which is going to teach you a lot of things about life in very subtle way. There's this book I have already mentioned in my previous video, which I got to see in Ayesha's hand and it just came into my mind that she's reading a book in the movie. I want to read that too. So then it became my favorite. So this movie is going to impact your life in numerous ways. There's a beautiful line in the movie which says that And then we realize that yes that happens. We realize so much into career that we forget that after reaching those goals, those milestones, we will be happy when we have people who love us beside us and we both celebrate together. Now that I've talked about two movies from the contemporary period, I would like to take you back to the classical time and talk about a movie which is very close to my heart. This is Anand. It's a story of a cancer patient who has this everlasting flame of joy in his heart. If you've seen Kal Hona Ho, that movie was a remake of Anand. But I would not talk about Kal Hona Ho because I think that the movie has not done justice to the original story. Anand is beautiful. My father was a big lover of old Bollywood movies and he introduced me to the classics like Kabhi, Kabhi, Silsila. And out of all these, Anand became my all-time favorite. It has Rajesh Khanna as the main protagonist and you know, he was the first person, I think he was the biggest childhood crush I could ever have. Looking at the kind of person he is, he says Babu Mosha hai, Zindagi badi honi chahiye lambi nahi. It doesn't matter how much you live, but you should add life to the years you are living. So it's about just enjoying the moment and just to be grateful for being alive and thriving. Hum kaya bahar yeh soch nahi paate ki hum zindah hai, this is such a big blessing. Okay? And this man actually talks about how beautifully you can live life even if you know that it can end any day. There are beautiful songs in this movie by Mana Day and once you start, you know, watching that movie, you'll be like, okay, old classical Bollywood movies can never be remade into anything more beautiful than what they were originally. So it's a beautiful movie. I can't say anything about this movie. I would just suggest you to watch it. And once you watch it, I want to see your reactions in the comment section below. Next in line is Zindagi Gulzar hai. So if you remember in the beginning of the video, I told you that I'm not going to talk about Bollywood. I'm going to talk about Hindi TV shows in movie. And that is the reason why I've included Zindagi Gulzar hai. It's not an Indian TV show. It's a Pakistani TV show, but a very, very, very beautiful Pakistani TV show. This entire TV show is like 26 episodes long. And once you start watching it, you'll be like, okay, this is indeed beautiful. You might find it a bit slow at first. But once you get the pace, you'll be like, oh my God, this can make me cry. This can make me laugh. But what is more important and what is more beautiful about this show is that it is going to make you think. So it's about this man, Fawad Khan. He plays the character of Zarun and then we have Kashaf, who is the female lead. And they both are very opposite. So that opposite attract love story is what is the major theme. But then there is more to it. So Zarun is from an upper class family. He's a big time flirt, charm. He's a heartthrob. Once you've made Zarun, you're like, oh my God, nobody can not fall in love with this man. He's that. And then we have Kashaf, who is very serious. She has this independence reflected on her face. She's a self-made woman. And at the same time, she's constantly at war with her fate. So she's from a family where her mother and her father left her. And she has this thing that I don't want to depend on any man. So that feminine thing, the femininity is there. Along with that, there's this hardness, that rudeness on how she behaves, on how she talks. But then gradually, they both fall in love with each other. And gradually, you find that they both change as a person. In which the flaws gradually get better with the relationship with the other person. And at the end, you find that both of them have a very different concept of happiness altogether. So the happiness was redefined at the end. And what is beautiful here for every female to watch is how Kashaf is so independent. And yet she understands what independence is really all about. I can really relate to what Kashaf is. I am that woman that would never like to be feminine. I would never like a man to open the door of the car or maybe to pay the bills on the date. But then when you look at the character dynamics, you will understand that, okay. We all look at it from one perspective. There are a lot of other perspectives from which the same story can be narrated. So it's beautiful and it is going to teach you so much about life. It's a love story. Yet at the same time, it is going to take you to a different level of philosophy altogether. There is a lot of diary writing which happens throughout the episode. So every day at the end, you find Kashaf and Zarun sitting at their respective homes, writing a diary and talking about what they think about each other. And it's very interesting to understand that, okay, how a man behaves and what the man actually thinks. So I would just request you that if you've not watched it, try watching it. And even if you don't want to watch the entire series, you might watch the trailer and see if you like it. And if you like it, then don't stop before you complete all the 26 episodes. Last but not the least, I cannot end this video without talking about Little Things, a TV series which I think is very dear to my heart. So three seasons have come to an end and the main roles are played by Dhruv Sehigal and Mithila Palkar. And it's on Netflix, I guess. The first season is on YouTube and the last two seasons are on Netflix. So it's a beautiful web series which talks about living relationship in the most relatable and adorable manner. I can just summarize it in that manner. So it is a story where what happens in this couple's life is showcase. So all the small misunderstandings, small little things which happens in day-to-day life which we don't really capture in any movie or maybe in any Bollywood romance is talked about in this TV show. So the ideological difference, how they both look at each other, how they both look at each other's life, their idea of happiness, how they both relate to each other's family, all of that is being talked. So third season was released like a month ago and I was so surprised to see that these guys, they have moved ahead of the living relationship dynamics and they've talked about other little things that matter beyond the romantic relationship. So they've talked about how they connect to their old school friends, how they connect to their parents who are aging, how they connect to their own nostalgia and how they still try to understand each other and be happy. So in this third season they both were in a long-distance relationship, they both moved to do a research in Kavya who is played by Mithila Palkar who was staying in Mumbai and they still had problems with the living relationship, the long-distance relationship and how they're trying to sort that out and what is this beautiful bond that makes them stay together. So these are two mature individuals who are going to fight on those little things and you're going to enjoy looking at the dynamics. So if you love romantic series, I think you should watch it. I know that you're going to kill me because I've only talked about romance all this while but then I am really sorry to tell you that that's my genre, that's what I love. It's good, mythology is good but then I can't see mythology a thousand times but I can definitely cherish love stories a thousand times. So I think I've given you some really fantastic romantic movies and TV shows that you can watch and pass your time and if you have any other suggestions or if you want me to make other videos on the content I like watching I would like to know that in the comment section below. If you are really interested to know more about my slides then feel free to put that in the comment section below and I'm going to soon put up a video on the same. 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