15 Rom-Coms That Will Make You Go Like, ‘This Is What Spoilt My Relationship’

Unrealistic expectations are a lethal weapon in a relationship. One day everything’s going really well and the next it’s all down the drain. You know why? Because that one day, he didn’t do what you expected him to do and that’s just not okay. So where do we get these from? Rom-coms.

Here are the Rom-Coms that literally make you believe that romance is much more than it actually is.

1. Made of Honour

So this dude is a playboy who’s never said ‘I love you’ to anyone, and is secretly in love with his childhood best friend. However, it’s so secretive that he himself doesn’t know it. She’s obviously smitten by him. She finds someone else, gets engaged and is almost going to get married to that guy. When he finally realises he loves her, he comes at the last minute to break up her wedding. If it was real life, she’d be married with two kids and he’d still be enjoying a bachelor pad with a 25-year old.

 

2. 50 First Dates

She has amnesia, so she can’t remember him unless she reads her diary. But she doesn’t want to drag him into the mess, so she burns the diary and lets him go. But he can’t let her go, so he keeps at it and reminds her everyday of who he is and why she loves him. It’s heartbreaking but somehow my boyfriend disappears when I have a temperature, because he doesn’t want to fall sick and miss work. So this is quite unlikely!

 

3. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

This chick waits 8 years to move on. I mean, I know people who’ve broken up, gone to a club and ended up with another boyfriend, all within 24 hours. Also can we please just talk about ‘Aman’, who just lets her go and dances at their wedding, which was originally supposed to be his wedding! This dude is the definition of cray-cray. I’d marry him over the guy who waited 8 years for me to become more feminine!

 

4. Kal Ho Na Ho

SRK is dying in this movie. So if it was a normal person, I would go out and do all those things I’ve always wanted to do: I’d travel, I’d bungee jump and almost anything that made me feel alive (yes this a plan I’ve been working on for a while). But no, what does he do? He finds a husband for the girl he’s in love with. Yeah, if that isn’t unrealistic, I’m not sure what is.

 

5. Pretty Woman

Apparently a lot of rich peeps marry hookers and that’s awesome. But while Richard Gere buys diamonds for Julia Roberts, I’m just looking at an empty hand. He gave her his credit card to buy clothes, while most of us are just struggling to get our boyfriend’s card details to register for free Netflix for one month.

 

6. Monster In-Law

If your boyfriend’s mom hated you so much, you know what would happen? He would dump you. But not here! Jlo tackles his mom like the pro she is, something that our sanskars would frown upon. But in the end, she wins the battle, which is a far out cry from reality. Cue: Justin Bieber’s ‘Love Yourself’ lyrics.

 

7. Failure to Launch

If you pushed your boyfriend to leave his house and get independent, you’d get a big fat nothing in return. Infact, you’d probably end up living with his family after marriage, but this chick-flick breaks all those notions, making us believe that doing this will not only get you the guy but also respect from his family. Get real peeps, get real.

 

8. The Other Woman

In which universe does girl-power give you enough tolerance to become best friends with your husband’s mistress? In movie-land, that’s where.

 

9. How to Lose A Guy In Ten Days

This woman invades boys night, becomes the epitome of clingy and nauseatingly cheesy. If you did all the things that she did, you’d be single and probably in therapy for a long time. But this movie makes us believe that love conquers all, even psycho behaviour.

 

10. Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein

If someone lied about their identity, roamed around with me for a really long time and I discovered that, he’s in fact lying. He’ll be the receipt of a well played kick. But this woman accepts him for all his creepiness and decides to live with it forever. If that’s not absolute bull, I’m not sure what is.

 

11. Clueless

This has incest written all over it. You don’t just fall in love with your step brother and pretend like it’s no big deal because you saw it in a movie. This movie, no matter how much I love it, is pretty disconcerting.

 

12. Notting Hill

The closest I’ve gotten to a movie star would be the guy who played a chai-wala in a forgotten show. The possibility of a movie star running into us and later marrying us is what keeps us from going for the real men out there.

 

13. Before Sunrise

So let’s be real. If you went on a Euro Trip and met a guy, one of these things will happen: 1) He’ll have a girlfriend who is equally hot, 2) He’ll turn out to be a creep, 3) He’ll become a holiday fling or 4) You’ll probably never approach him because stranger-danger. But this movie made me believe that my Euro-trip would be the best thing, romantically, but I only got butt-pinched by an old guy. That my friend is reality.

 

14. Serendipity

I believe in fate as much as the next guy, but this isn’t fate, this is some next level Ekta-Kapoor engineered destiny. No matter how much we believe that we end up with people we’re supposed to be with, that doesn’t always happen.

 

15. Bridget Jones Diary

Have there been 2 guys fighting for you in a restaurant? Probably not.

So don’t leave your expectations on these highly unrealistic movies, watch them for what they really are: entertainment. 

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