We are almost a week past celebrating the day of love, and the lovers have already labeled February the month of love. But while the world is pink right now, pop culture always has the antidote to everything, whether positive or negative. So while there is a Valentine’s Day, a couple of years ago many of us discovered that there is also a Break Up Day placed exactly a week from February 14. Strange but yes, even Google confirms it. So while we were so wild at suggesting movies on and around the day of love, how do you think we will abandon you on the day of the broken heart that falls tomorrow, February 21? So here we are with another list, and you will probably love this one.

Parting ways or going away from the one you love is an emotion that is tragic and traumatic but also kind of very personal and distinctive to every person. Movies over the years have shown us several shades of break-up and even ones that didn’t happen or the distance was mended by time and love. Today we celebrate those movies as the day demands and look back at some of the most aching but also healing stories of separation and the dilemma that emotion and situations come with.

While we don’t want any of you to really suffer a breakup, but in case you do, we have got your back. And in case you don’t, these movies are brilliant for what they are and will definitely entertain you. Let parting ways and healing from it be the theme of your day tomorrow. Here’s a list of films that will help you.

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Tanu Weds Manu (2011)

Cast: R Madhavan, Kangana Ranaut, Swara Bhaskar, and ensemble. 

Director: Anand L Rai. 

Streaming On: Eros Now and Google Play (on rent).

We thought of beginning the list with something very interestingly wild. Anand L Rai telling stories of impossible love has to be one of our favorite genres in Bollywood. In Tanu Weds Manu, he shapes yet another impossible love story that feels odd in the first go. But the filmmaker's vision is enough to convince you that even if the story is more about them trying to break, it is about them coming closer with every attempt and that’s the magic. You should watch it for the moments where Tanu confronts Manu about his feelings for her. Pure magic.

Cocktail (2012)

Cast: Deepika Padukone, Saif Ali Khan, Diana Penty, and ensemble. 

Director: Homi Adajania. 

Streaming On: Zee5 and Jio Cinema.

Cocktail wasn’t just about people in love but also friends. What separation does to the bond that comes before a relationship and how that affects everyone involved is what Homi Adajania was exploring with writer Imtiaz Ali, and it all made so much sense and the movie is timeless for the way it approaches the subject. Cocktail was also where Deepika Padukone flourished as an actor and bloomed into something that we are all thankful for. Her Veronica was an ambassador for the Broken Hearts Club, and we cannot define her any better than that.

Break Ke Baad (2010) 

Cast: Imran Khan, Deepika Padukone, and ensemble. 

Director: Danish Aslam. 

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video.

Anything rom-com, and there’s an Imran Khan movie to define it. In a span of less than a decade, Imran gave a range of lovers. This one here, too, was in love with a girl unsure about her feelings. Commitment-phobic like many of us out here, and it was a film so relatable. Not the landscape it was set in, but the story was something all of us millennials and Gen Z could relate to. Break Ke Baad spoke about breaks and not breakups, and there is indeed a big difference between the two.

Love Aaj Kal (2009)

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, and ensemble. 

Director: Imtiaz Ali. 

Streaming On: Eros Now and Google Play (on rent).

Seems like Deepika Padukone had a phase where she chose movies where separation is the core theme. But hey, she gave us redemption too through her characters. Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal (the first) has to be one of the most complex stories written by the filmmaker. It was about commitments and the insecurities in love. It was about finding the perfect partner and then doing everything to keep them with you. Love Aaj Kal will always be at the top of many lists.

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Lootera (2013)

Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Ranveer Singh, Vikrant Massey, and ensemble. 

Director: Vikramaditya Motwane. 

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video and Jio Cinema.

No one can come even close to the poetry of Lootera that spoke to every heart that witnessed it. It was a classic short story, meeting of a brilliant writer (Bhavani Iyer), and a stellar director. What if you were faking falling in love but you actually fall for it, only to realize that the one you fell for was a mirage that might break one day and you are their last hope? Ranveer and Sonakshi’s characters in Lootera were lovers who knew no boundary but a separation created a rift that was then bridged by melancholy.

Dear Zindagi (2016)

Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shah Rukh Khan, and ensemble. 

Director: Gauri Shinde. 

Streaming On: Netflix.

Gauri Shinde gave a masterclass for all you stuck with broken love and no hope. Dear Zindagi was about a girl like us who had her heart broken multiple times only to realize she now needs an anchor and she sets out on a search for it. Luckily she finds one in her therapist and the bond that is formed is so heartwarming. It isn’t about separation but healing from them. Dear Zindagi will always be that one movie that taught us to fall in love with ourselves in the most endearing way.

Meri Pyaari Bindu (2017)

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra, and ensemble. 

Director: Akshay Roy. 

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video.

We kept the most underrated for the last, and Meri Pyaari Bindu should be watched by each one of us for the hopelessly in love amongst us who will find themselves on the big screen. There is no match for the clinic of this movie which tells you to embrace the pain that comes with separation and use it as fuel to be a lover who doesn’t lose hope from the idea of falling in love. This is the finest of Ayushmann Khurrana before he was selling social causes.

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