Movies like Vaaranam Aayiram (2008)
The best movies like Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) are Bombay (1995), Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and Alaipayuthey (2000). If Vaaranam Aayiram hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDil Chahta Hai (2001)6.9/10 from 360 votes
- NewestKamali from Nadukkaveri (2021)Released 2021
- In TamilBombay (1995)Also in Tamil
Bombay (1995)
A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDil Chahta Hai (2001)
Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlaipayuthey (2000)
Karthik and Shakthi marry against the wishes of their families and start their new life. However, they soon realize that marriage is not the bed of roses they had imagined it would be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSachein (2005)
A happy-go-lucky college student falls in love with a beautiful young woman at first sight, but decides to use a unique approach to get close to her, as she has many admirers in the college. How will their relationship evolve?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Iyarkai (2003)
Marudhu, a sailor, falls in love with Nancy, a fruit vendor. However, she waits for the captain who had promised that he would return and marry her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
7G Rainbow Colony (2004)
Kathir is a young underachiever who frequently vents his frustrations through public outbursts. When Anitha, a North Indian girl whose family has fallen on hard times, moves into his housing colony, he soon decides to pursue her with his love, but she keeps rejecting his advances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Roja (1992)
Roja, a simple girl from a village in Tamil Nadu, makes desperate efforts to find her husband, Rishi, after he is kidnapped by militants during a secret undercover mission in Kashmir.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like this3 (2012)
Ram and Janani are high school sweethearts who eventually get married. However, Janani is mystified when Ram commits suicide all of a sudden and she tries to find out the truth behind his death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDil Se.. (1998)
Journalist Amar falls for a mysterious woman on an assignment, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar is about to get married, the woman shows up at his doorstep asking for help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKamali from Nadukkaveri (2021)
Kamali is a happy-go-lucky girl from a small town. She is a weak student who is hardly interested in studies when she falls in love with a studious boy in Chennai who aspires to make it to IIT Madras. She decides to take her studies seriously and convinces her father to go for higher studies. With the help of a retired professor in her village, she starts preparing for exams to join IIT Madras if only to meet her love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010)
A young, aspiring filmmaker falls in love with a girl who moves into the house above his, but her sophisticated nature does more harm than good to him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRhythm (2000)
Karthikeyan, a photo editor in Mumbai, is a widower whose parents wish to see him settled and happy. Chitra, a widow with a son, gives them hope, unaware that their pasts are intertwined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Moondram Pirai (1982)
A young woman suffers a major head injury in a car accident after which she begins behaving like a child. Trapped at a brothel, she finds hope in a lonely school teacher who decides to rescue her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Raja Rani (2013)
John and Regina, who dislike each other, are forced to get married and lead troubled lives. However, things take a turn when the couple suffers a sudden tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisParuthiveeran (2007)
A village tough finally succumbs to the unconditional love of his angelic cousin, but his romance faces insurmountable challenges, including family opposition and his own delinquent personality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Mouna Raagam (1986)
Divya, a college student, is forced to marry Chandrakumar due to family pressure. However, she asks for a divorce as a wedding gift, revealing her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
O Kadhal Kanmani (2015)
Aadi and Tara fall in love but both hate the idea of marriage and plan to separate when their lives take them to different countries. However, as they grow closer, their emotions are not easily managed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this96 (2018)
Ram is a photographer and nature lover who travels all around India capturing moments. On a chance visit to his hometown Tanjavur, he goes into his school and begins to walk down memory lane to 1994 when he was a student harboring feelings for his classmate Janu.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSillu Karuppatti (2019)
An anthology of four romantic stories across four age groups connected by that magical thread called love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000)
Two young women with differing views on love find themselves with three suitors in this modern take on Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility' set in Tamil Nadu.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThattathin Marayathu (2012)
Vinod is madly in love with a Muslim girl, Aisha. Aisha, who gradually falls in love with Vinod, is disappointed to see their difference in religion acting as a barrier in their marriage plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKannathil Muthamittal (2002)
A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisM. Kumaran S/O Mahalakshmi (2004)
Kumaran's life is all about his mother Mahalakshmi, who is separated from her husband Eshwar. Kumaran is passionate about kickboxing and he shares a very special relationship with his mother. In between, Kumaran falls in love with Malabar. But his life is destroyed after his mother's death. On the deathbed she tells her son to meet his father, a kick boxing champion, who lives in Malaysia. Kumaran goes to Malaysia to meet him and he comes...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Guru (2007)
A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Journey (2004)
Kiran is mortified by her growing lesbian desire for the effervescent Delilah in an idyllic Indian village where arranged marriage is the only acceptable form of coupling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Kaavalan (2011)
Bhoominathan aka Bhoomi highly respects Muthuramalingam and his daughter Meera. While appointed as Meera's bodyguard, he falls in love with a girl he has never met, unaware that she is none other than Meera.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnbe Sivam (2003)
Anbarasu, young and arrogant, and Nallasivam, damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, are thrown together by circumstances, and find that they are in some ways bound together by fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKushi (2000)
College friends Jenny and Shiva part ways due to a misunderstanding. Although they are in love and realize they cannot live without each other, their egos prevent them from uniting.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999)
A struggling singer feels guilty about a girl losing her eyesight; to meet the cost of her eye transplant surgery, he offers his kidney to a rich man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
The Lost Husband (2020)
Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Vaaranam Aayiram?
The closest matches to Vaaranam Aayiram are Bombay (1995), Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and Alaipayuthey (2000). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Vaaranam Aayiram?
People who watched Vaaranam Aayiram most often go on to Bombay (1995), Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and Alaipayuthey (2000).
What is the highest-rated movie like Vaaranam Aayiram?
Dil Chahta Hai (2001), rated 6.9/10 by 360 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Vaaranam Aayiram?
Kamali from Nadukkaveri (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Tamil movies like Vaaranam Aayiram?
Yes: Bombay (1995), Alaipayuthey (2000) and Sachein (2005).
How are movies similar to Vaaranam Aayiram chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Vaaranam Aayiram, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.