What Movies First Time Bollywood Movie Watcher Should Watch

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Everyone loves watching movies because it’s relaxing and entertaining. Hollywood movies are widely popular around the world. The Bollywood movie industry is the second best, however, its’ popularity is slowly increasing. Bollywood movies are the best. Sometimes the movies have all four genres together, so if you can’t decide what genre to watch, such as horror, romance, comedy, sad, action, etc. Then, watching Bollywood movies is the key because you can watch comedy, romance, action, and drama genre altogether. It makes the movies more fun to watch and the storylines are great. Not only that, but every Bollywood movie has songs in it because one thing different about a Hollywood movie from a Bollywood movie is that all Bollywood movie are musicals. People and actors pop out of nowhere and dance. While, watching a Bollywood movies, you’ll be singing and dancing the whole time, which makes watching them more entertaining. If you never watched a Bollywood Movie ever, then these are the five movies I recommend for first time Bollywood watchers. These movies are great, heartwarming, and fun to watch. The songs in these movies are singable and danceable, which makes it more better to watch. After, watching these movies, you will want to watch another Bollywood movie for sure. Also, I recommend that everyone should watch one Bollywood Movie in their lifetime, if they don’t, then they are absolutely missing out on the fun and the best entertainment ever.

1. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)

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3 hours 1 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance

When Raj (Shahrukh Khan) and Simran (Kajol) met each other on their holiday trip to Europe with their friends, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. When they went back home from their trip, they realized their feelings for each other changed. But, Simran is having an arranged marriage, due to her father’s wishes and is taken back to India to get married. With the encourage from his father Dharamvir (Anupam Kher), Raj decides to travel to India, but not to just win his bride back. But, also win the blessings from her whole family and her father.

2. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)

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2 hours 57 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance

Rahul Khanna (Shahrukh Khan) and Anjali Sharma (Kajol) were best friends in college. Anjali realizes in the movie, she has fallen in love with Rahul, but she’s too late because he fell in love with Tina Malhotra (Rani Mukerji). Anjali leaves the city, due to her broken heart. Rahul and Tina get married and later are expecting their first child. Tina gives birth to a daughter named Anjali, but died due to the complication during pregnancy. Years passes by and Anjali (Sana Saeed) is brought up by her father and each year on her birthdays, he gives her letters that her mother wrote for her before she died. Through the letters, she learns that Tina knew that Anjali was in love with Rahul and she wants Rahul to be happy again. In her letter, she asks her daughter to bring her father and Anjali back together again. Will she do it or can she do it?

3. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001)

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3 hours 30 min | Drama, Musical, Romance, Comedy

Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) is the adoptive son of a wealthy businessman named, Yash Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan). He feels eternal gratitude to his father for rescuing him from a life of poverty, therefore Rahul does everything his father want out of respect and love. Until, the day Rahul falls in love with Anjali (Kajol) and wants to marry her, but his father forbids it. Therefore, Yash kicks Rahul out of the house and causes him to move to London with his new wife and sister-in-law, Pooja (Kareena Kapoor). His mom Nandini (Jaya Bachchan) is heartbroken with what happened to the family. Ten years later, his younger brother Rohan (Hrithik Roshan) comes to know of this sad truth and he goes to London to fix his broken family and the relationship between Rahul and his father.

4. Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)

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3 hours 6 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Musical

Naina (Preity Zinta) is a introverted and depressed girl, who’s life changes when she meets Aman (Shahrukh Khan), who is a carefree, extroverted, and happy man. At first, she hated Aman, but then she falls in love with him. While, her best friend Rohit (Saif Ali Khan) is in love with her, but hides it. Soon, they will find out that Aman has a secret of his own that will change their lives forever.

5. Om Shanti Om (2007)

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2 hours 42 min | Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical

The movie Om Shanti Om is set in the 1970s. The main character, Om (Shahrukh Khan) is an aspiring actor and his love with a famous actress (Deepika Padukone), who he will do anything for. He finally meets her and they become friends. Both of them die, due to a tragic death. He gets reincarnated into the present day as a famous actor named, Om Kapoor. Throughout the movie, he attempts to discover the mystery of his and Shanti’s death, after he finds out the big truth about himself that he is actually the reincarnation of his former self from the 1970s.

I know I’m a bit bias with my actor choice, but I guarantee that Shahrukh is the best actor in the Bollywood film industry. He won many awards and his the second high paid actor in the world. So, he’s the perfect actor to watch for your first Bollywood movie. His movie, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is the first Bollywood movie I watched and after watching it, I fell in love with Shahrukh Khan and Bollywood movies. There are other great Bollywood movies with different actors, but for your first time. The King of Bollywood is the way to go for sure. All of these movies listed above are great movies. I watched them billions of time and still watch them today. These movies have everything from good music, to good storylines, four genres in one movie, it makes your heart warm and happy sometimes, it can make you sad in a good way, etc. Yes, these movies are long, therefore watch them over the weekend or a nice holiday. It will give you time to relax and enjoy something new.