I wrote this at 1:30 PM on a Friday in a glass-walled office that feels like working inside the weather. The sky kept shape-shifting: sunshine, then grey, then this weird glowing yellow, then fog so thick it eats the buildings. And then rain- soft at first, and then impatient.
I should be replying to emails, but I’m just smiling at the glass like a complete idiot. I don’t know what it is about rain, but it turns everything up. Like my smile gets louder. My hair frizzes and grows three extra limbs. The city smells like wet concrete and someone somewhere is boiling chai (I want pakode), and it just makes me want to fall in love with everything all at once.
Even my sadness feels prettier in the rain. Not better, just more... cinematic. Like if I cry now, it’ll mean something with my hair drenched and lipstick smudged. Like the city is crying with me. The kid in me gets louder, the one who used to pretend every puddle was a portal. But also the knot in my chest tightens a bit more, like maybe the rain is pulling things out of me I’ve been ignoring.
The rain just makes the world feel like a movie.
So here’s some main character-y Bollywood rain scenes that rewired me:
Ghajini
Sanjay gets a call. Runs to Kalpana’s place, his car drifting over wet roads. Only to lose her. He watches her die. Completely helpless. She never even knows who he really was. And I cry every single time.Aashiqui 2
Rahul holds the jacket over Aarohi, the rain pouring, Tum Hi Ho slowly starts playing in the background and gsvahdiuafhquwieggdhb. Yeah. Feelings.OK Jaanu
They’re out in the rain helping a lady with Alzheimer’s find her husband and suddenly realise they wouldn’t be doing this for anyone but each other. Just like that old couple. It’s the moment they go - “oh. Have we been in love all along?” Like?? Kicking my feet. Giggling.Wake Up Sid
The most cliché Bombay baarish scene: Marine Drive, chai, emotions. They meet, they talk, they hug. Simple. Beautiful. Yet somehow magnified tenfold because rain makes everything feel like it matters more.Meri Pyaari Bindu
Maana Ke Hum Yaar Nahi plays. The softest kind of heartbreak. A love that never fully became, but always existed. They’re both in the rain, just like they were back then. And it aches. Quietly. Devastatingly.Life in a Metro
So many people. So many stories. And the rain threads through all of them. No one gets to avoid it. It ties them together, cuts across timelines, reminds you that even strangers are drenched in their own chaos.Hum Tum – Title Track
The cutest, prettiest, most beautiful montage of love. I cannot stop smiling. Special mention to that era of Saif because wow. What a time to be alive.Jab We Met
He’s burnt out, annoyed. And then it starts raining and his first thought is her. Dancing, laughing in the rain. He imagines an entire sequence, all colours and movement and joy. And just like that, he knows he has to go back to her. Aaaa. Crack.Zoobi Doobi – 3 Idiots
So cute. So silly. No deep feelings, just two people in the rain dancing and laughing with the dumbest lyrics and the happiest faces. Pure serotonin. Feel good cinema.Special Mention: The Notebook Kiss Scene
I cannot write about rain scenes that rewired me and not mention that. The kiss. The screaming. The rain soaking them through and love punching you in the face. Legendary.
And me?
I think my heart has always been a little rain-soaked. And it’s nice to remember it.
Saturday is better