Saiyaara is running in theatres and being praised for exactly what it is — a beautifully heartbreaking love story that lingers long after it ends. If you’ve watched it and are still nursing that emotional hangover, this list is for you. And if you haven’t seen it but want to feel all the feels (read: weep alone in your room in the best way possible), these underrated romantic gems will take you there. So, check out these movies like Saiyaara that will make you weep yet crave for more.

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1. Is Love Enough, Sir?

Tillotama Shome and Vivek Gomber’s film is all about what’s not said. A wealthy man and his housemaid, both lost in their own worlds, find a strange, shy connection. Their class difference is too loud to ignore. The tension builds and so does our heartbreak.

2. Akaash Vani

This one deserved more love. What starts as a sweet love story takes a dark turn into emotional abuse, trauma, and the fear of disappointing your family. The chemistry between Nushrratt Bharuccha and Kartik Aaryan is tender, but the film’s strength lies in its honesty.

3. October

Shoojit Sircar gave us a story where care is the deepest form of love. Dan’s transformation from a careless intern to a man completely devoted to a comatose colleague is as haunting as it is beautiful. This one will stay with you forever.

4. Shiddat

Often dismissed as melodramatic, Shiddat is a deeply passionate film about obsessive love and how far someone will go for it. Sunny Kaushal delivers a performance so raw that even when the plot stretches belief, the emotions land. The ending is a gut punch that stays.

5. Meri Pyaari Bindu

Abhi and Bindu are almost everything. This story is soaked in nostalgia, music, and the kind of love that feels like home, even if you don’t end up living there. Ayushmann Khurrana and Parineeti Chopra’s chemistry is heartbreaking in the best way possible.

6. Lootera

This movie is still underrated for how beautifully restrained it is. Set in the ’50s, this love story between an aristocrat and a zamindar’s daughter drips with longing. Every frame is a painting, and the last twenty minutes? Emotionally ruinous.

7. CityLights

Technically not a romantic film but the love story will crush you. Rajkummar Rao and Patralekhaa play a couple trying to survive in Mumbai after losing everything. It’s a story of sacrifice, desperation, and clinging to each other when everything else falls apart. The romance isn’t roses, it’s survival and that makes it all the more real.

8. Ahista Ahista

This film starring Abhay Deol and Soha Ali Khan takes its time and then blindsides you with a bittersweet ending. It’s about second chances, unspoken words, and the kind of love that quietly walks away.

9. Raincoat

Adapted from O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi, this gem starring Aishwarya Rai and Ajay Devgn is about two ex-lovers meeting on a rainy afternoon. Nothing dramatic happens and yet, everything changes. It’s delicate, devastating, and soaked in longing. This is one of the best underrated romantic movies that will make you cry just like Saiyaara did.

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