With lights and happiness everywhere, Eid becomes the most prosperous and significant festival of Islam. Muslims from every corner of the world extend their wishes, greeting, and sheer Kumra to their loved ones. This day has marked a thanking to Allah for providing strength and trust to get over every hurdle. The festival is celebrated in India with happiness and joy, this joy can also be seen in the Bollywood movies. Bollywood movies never fail to portray the essence of the festival with the right amount of happiness. Today, here we bring you the top 10 feelgood Bollywood movies to enjoy this Eid with your fam:
1. Bajrangi Bhaijaan: If you haven’t watched his masterpiece, you are missing real happiness in your life. The movie is an attempt of Bollywood to bring Hindus and Muslims together via the story of a young man named Bajrangi, who crosses the India-Pakistan border to help a lost Muslim girl meet her parents.
2. My Name is Khan: This movie is the true representation of the Muslim community as minorities. The movie is the story of a mentally challenged man Rizwan Khan who only wish that he wants to meet the president of the USA, Brack Obama, so that he can tell the world that Every Khan is not a Terrorist.
3. Gadar: Every movie nurtured in the Bollywood industry, has failed to portray religious humanity better than Gaddar. The love story of two hearts belonging to different religions, the movie is set in the post-partition period. Tara marries Sakina and they live a happy life. However, their happiness is short-lived when Sakina’s father forces her to stay in Pakistan and separates her from her family.
4. Jodha Akbar: One of the most iconic historical movies ever produced in Indian cinema, Jodha Akbar is the great love story of Mughal Emperor Akbar who marries Jodhaa a fiery Rajput princess for various political reasons. The way they fall in love despite their religious difference is a delight to watch.
5. Amar Akbar Anthony: If you are looking for someone to watch this Eid-Ul-Fitar, then Amar Akbar Anthony is the right stop for you. Giving a lesson on religious humanity, the movie is the tale of three brothers who get lost in childhood but finally meet, when their mother needs them the most.
6. Pakeezah: Filled with ear-soothing songs like Chalte Chalte Yuhi Koi Mil Gaya Ttha’, ‘Teer-E-Nazar Dekhenge’, ‘Thare Rahiyo Ho Banke Yaar Re’, ‘Inhi Logon Ne Le Lee Na Dupatta Mera…’ Pakeezah is a blessing to watch. Meena Kumari lived the part of the tawaif Sahib Jaan and the credit for her heart-melting performance must go to a large extent to the music by Ghulam Mohammed.
7. Mere Mehboob: This Muslim Social blockbuster featured Rajendra Kumar and Sadhana, two non-Muslim actors, who fall in love on a train and have to go through various storms in ornate teacups before the ultimate nikah. The film was remarkable in capturing the colors music and festive mood of a decadent nawabi culture.
8. Chaudvin ka Chand: Guru Dutt’s first and only ‘Muslim Social’ a genre of cinema that celebrated the obsolete if not altogether non-existent Nawabi culture, was made to counter the losses he suffered with the autobiographical Kagaz Ke Phool . While that film was all about life Chaudhvin Ka Chand had nothing to do with real life. Two Muslim best friends Aslam and Nawab both love the same beauty Jameela.
9. Silvat: Playing a Muslim darzi in Tanuja Chandra 40-minute film situated in the crowded gully of what looks like Mumbai’s Haji Ali locality, Kartik is every bit Anwar, the shy sensitive tailor who develops a secret passion for his favourite client: a lonely abandoned wife Noor (Meher Mistry) whose husband has migrated to Riyadh for a job with nary a glance back for the woman he has left behind.
10. Bombay: “Tu hi re” song is still nostalgic from the movie Bombay. This is an Indian Tamil language romantic movie, released in 1995 that shattered all the stereotypes. The movie casts Arvind Swami and Manisha Koirala as protagonists.The story of the movie revolves around a Muslim woman and a Hindu man who fall in love and elope to get married as their families object to their relationship.
