90s
A guy discovers a surprisingly profitable hill, gets rich, marries his crush, and spends the next 20 years dodging an angry ex and flying bullets all while being a cool guy.
Padayappa (1999)
A guy rescues a girl from a gangster, hides her at home, plays a national sports match while being a wanted criminal, falls in love, and accidentally electrocutes the villain.
Ghilli (2004)
A local rowdy clashes with corrupt cops and rivals, gets manipulated by a woman seeking justice, and eventually takes revenge while winning her heart, but continues his mischievous ways
Maari (2015)
A guy falls for a strict career-focused girl, loses his father while searching for her, struggles with missed opportunities, heartbreakingly rejects her love, and then nervously goes to his first job interview.
Love Today (1997)
Two kids grow up in different corners of India, keep bumping into each other randomly, get tangled in their friends’ love drama, survive jealous dads, accidental injuries, and missed trains, and finally figure out they’re in love.
Kushi (2000)
A confused young man with career dreams keeps chasing the same woman across cities, trains, weddings, and even continents, only to discover that love, timing, and parents are never on the same schedule. To cope, he turns the entire emotional mess into a movie, briefly imagines a happy ending, and then learns again that real life refuses to follow the script.
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa
A guy learns classical dance to impress a girl, accidentally uncovers a governor’s terrorism-and-politics side hustle, gets jailed, tortured, chased, framed, escapes multiple times, saves a hospital full of people, and still ends up married.
Kaadhalan (1994)
A man who forgets everything constantly relies on obsessive notes and reminders, while a student uncovers that he’s carrying out a long, emotional mission tied to his past.
Ghajini (2005)
A guy accepts a job he’s wildly underqualified for, enrolls in college without actually wanting an education, emotionally commits to an anonymous phone voice, survives family drama and transportation-based betrayal, spends ten years living the wrong life, and only at the end realizes the universe was trolling him the whole time.
Kaavalan
A man returns from abroad with his romantic partner, gets caught in a longstanding local feud, unexpectedly assumes leadership, navigates family and community conflicts, and ultimately takes drastic action before facing the consequences.
Thevar Magan (1992)
Some party-loving pals accidentally become semi-famous musicians, survive a chaotic mix of legal trouble, miscommunications, and romance, and somehow manage to fix everything just in time for love to win… sort of.
Boys (2003)
A bunch of men with questionable morals discover a very large pile of money and immediately decide trust is optional, friendships are temporary, and loyalty lasts exactly one plot twist. Everyone double-crosses everyone else in hotels, bars, cars, and explosions, until it turns out the biggest betrayal was actually the original plan all along.
Mankatha
A village girl accidentally marries a spy and then has to save him from terrorists in Kashmir while everyone argues and no one speaks the same language.
Roja (1992)
An intense cop keeps surviving impossible accidents while chasing a gang with very strange revenge rules. Along the way, love, betrayal, and dramatic payback happen, ending with everyone’s personal grudges mostly settled.
Kaakha Kaakha (2003)
A guy on vacation spends his free time chasing anonymous phone calls instead of relaxing, ruins several bad guys’ schemes/plottings, scares everyone with military discipline, and still somehow finds time to get the girl.
Thuppakki (2012)