This or that! Pinning for your best friend trope OR Younger pursuer/seme(?) trope 👀?
Oooo, damn.
I think I gotta go for pining for your best friend trope. It's SO close but I just truly love friendship over love relationship where they are ride or die and in love but they're MORE ride or die than in love. It's just GREAT. I love when the power of friendship makes love stronger but also that fear of losing a friendship is just so powerful to see. So I gotta, I just gotta, for all I adore younger pursuer.
(Although it does depend on the origin of the BL, I don't think Japan has ever done a convincing version of the friendship over love trope so it would change but overall, definitely pining besties.)
Coeli's Picks: Weddings, part 1 (Indian Film Edition)
One Dress a Day Challenge
June: Weddings
Indian movies do love their wedding scenes! Here are some more terrific costume examples, in order from the oldest film to the newest. Lots of good men's costumes in this batch.
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994) / Madhuri Dixit as Nisha Choudhury
Devdas (2002) / Madhuri Dixit as Chandramukhi
Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002) / Hrithik Roshan as Raj Khanna
Bride and Prejudice (2004) / Namrata Shirodkar as Jaya Bakshi and Naveen Andrews as Balraj (top); Martin Henderson as Will Darcy and Aishwarya Rai as Lalita Bakshi (bottom)
(Okay, this one isn't technically an Indian movie, being an international co-production. But it definitely belongs with the Indian movies costume-wise.)
Vivah (2006) / Shahid Kapoor as Prem 'Bholu' and Amrita Rao as Poonam 'Bitto'
Rockstar (2011) / Nargis Fakhri as Heer Kaul
2 States (2014) / Alia Bhatt as Ananya Swaminathan
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015) / Salman Khan as Prem Dilwale (or maybe Yuvraj Vijay Singh; he plays a double role and I'm not sure which this is!)
Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety (2018) / Sunny Nijar as Titu Sharma