Top 10 Bollywood Movies To Watch If You Want To Cry About One-sided Love

There are only a few people out there who understand how much unrequited love hurts. It is a different kind of heartbreak when you wish for a person on every star out there, but they can never care about you that way. In times like these, we need movies like the ones mentioned below to give us comfort and make us feel validated in our obsession towards that one person. Therefore, if you feel like the angst of your one-sided love is getting too much to bear, just click on one of these movies and you will be able to relate with the pain of the characters.

1. Meri Pyari Bindu

This movie should go down in history as the definition of one-sided love. We see a man who spends his entire life hoping to be ‘the one’ for his best friend, but she takes advantage of his feelings. She shatters his heart and ruins him for any future relationships.

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This film is another one of Ayushman Khurrana’s hits. His character is intensely in love with a girl from his hometown, but she is desperate to win over his friend. We see the couple getting their happy ending, but the torment of that unrequited love is perfectly encapsulated in this movie.

3. Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

The song ‘Tu Jaane Na’ from this movie is the anthem of almost every one-sided lover. This movie is a story of how unrequited love is the purest form of affection out there because you are happy simply in the happiness of the other person, with no expectations attached.

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Love hurts the most when you know that you would do anything for that one person, but they are wildly chasing after your own best friend. This agony finds a perfect outlet in the story of Meera, Gautam, and Veronica. The latter girl is ready to reform her entire personality for Saif Ali Khan’s character, but he wants to marry her best friend, Meera.

5. Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani

In this movie, we witness two cases of unrequited love: first, Aditi’s love for Avi and then Naina’s love for Bunny. This movie teaches about the sacrifices of unrequited love. It shows us that if you are meant to be with someone, they will find their way to you, despite all obstacles.

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We see one-sided love in the form of a love triangle in this movie. Ayan has been pining for his best friend, Alizeh, for years, but she has hopelessly fallen for another man. Saba gives Ayan her entire heart, but he is too busy running after Alizeh to see that she values him more. Both their struggles are equally heartbreaking.

7. October

This movie showcases one of the most heartbreaking tales of unrequited love Bollywood has ever made. Varun Dhawan’s character gives up everything necessary in his life to care for the girl he loves, who is in a coma due to an accident. Their story, however, does not end on a happy note.

8. I Hate Luv Storys

Usually, movies are made solely on the male perspective of unrequited love. Still, this movie conveys to us that piercing feeling of rejection in a one-sided relationship in the case of a woman. Sonam Kapoor’s character sets out to confess her feelings to the person she trusts wholeheartedly, and he shatters that trust into pieces.

9. Ranjhaana

When we talk about unrequited love, this movie is often the first one that pops up in the minds of many. Ranjhaana is a story of a mad, extraordinary, all-encompassing love, ready to cross all barriers, but all this effort and obsession only ever comes from one side.

10. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Kajol’s character in this movie gives her entire heart, mind, and soul to her best friend, Rahul, but he only has eyes for Tina. We observe the true torment and agony of unrequited love in this particular scene in the movie where Anjali keeps repeating, “Mera pehla pyaar adhoora reh jaaye” while breaking down in front of her confidante.