Cinema loves con, be it Bollywood or Hollywood. The thrill of watching the almighty hero evading the smart cop and successfully performing the heist is nothing less than an adventure every normal guy wants to undertake. Add a tadka of glamour in the form of a beautiful partner of the opposite sex and the dream picture is ready. Both English and Hindi cinema have many successful con romances on the run to their credit. Nikhil Dwivedi and Richa Chadda-starrer upcoming film Tamanche too is a love story of two cons on the run. Here are some famous onscreen con couples...
Bonnie and Clyde (1967): This one has to be the landmark in couple con movies. In the middle of the Great Depression, Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) meet when Clyde tries to steal Bonnie's mother's car. Bonnie, who is bored by her job as a waitress, is intrigued with Clyde, and decides to take up with him and become his partner in crime. They pull off many con jobs and fall for each other while on the run.
Badlands (1973) - Terence Malick's cult film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. Badlands is narrated by Holly (Spacek), a teenage girl living in a dead-end South Dakota town. One day she meets Kit (Sheen), a young, psychopathic greaser, who charms and runs away with her. Holly's narration, describing her adventures with Kit in romantic clichés, is juxtaposed as Kit's increasingly antisocial and violent behaviour is slowly revealed.
True Romance (1993): Fueled by Quentin Tarantino's savvy screenplay and a gallery of oddball performances, Tony Scott's True Romance is a funny and violent action jaunt in the best sense. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) meets a prostitute named Alabama (Patricia Arquette), and it's love at first sight for both of them. Clarence grabs a suitcase that he thinks contains Alabama's clothes, but he discovers it instead holds five million dollars' worth of cocaine. The couple hits the road for California, planning to sell the dope and enjoy the good life, but soon a group of very unhappy underworld characters are after them, as well as the police.
American Hustle (2013): A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock the US, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). Riotously funny and impeccably cast, American Hustle compensates for its flaws with unbridled energy and some of David O. Russell's most irrepressibly vibrant direction.
Natural Born Killers (1994): At the centre of the film, written by Stone and Quentin Tarantino, among others, are Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis), a young couple united by their desire for each other and their common love of violence. Together, they embark on a record-breaking, exceptionally gory killing spree that captivates the sensation-hungry tabloid media. Their fame is ensured by one newsman, Wayne Gale (Robert Downey, Jr.), who reports on Mickey and Mallory for his show, American Maniacs. Even the duo's eventual capture by the police only increases their notoriety, as Gale develops a plan for a Super Bowl Sunday interview that Mickey and Mallory twist to their own advantage.
Normal Life (1996): A seemingly ordinary couple jump the tracks into disaster in this drama based on a true story. Chris Anderson (Luke Perry) is a straight-arrow cop who meets Pam (Ashley Judd) after she's hurt in a barroom fight. And it's love at first sight. After Chris is fired and takes a job as a security guard, he can no longer pay the bills that Pam is ringing up. He uses his knowledge of security systems to rob banks, and he discovers that he's good at it. Pam eventually finds out about Chris' sideline; the prospect of danger excites her sexually, and she insists on joining in for future robberies, goading him into a crime spree that leads to tragedy.
A Fish Called Wanda (1988): Smartly written, smoothly directed, and solidly cast, A Fish Called Wanda offers a classic example of a brainy comedy with widespread appeal. Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con artist who uses every ounce of her sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels stolen by her gangster lover Tom Georgeson. She romances Kevin Kline and John Cleese, whom she genuinely falls in love with eventually.
Trouble in Paradise (1932): Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall in Ernst Lubitsch's solid-gold 1932 rom-com classic "Trouble In Paradise" as the definitive on-screen con-coupling. The pair play pickpocket Lily and thief Gaston, who meet in Venice in the process of trying to rip each other off, and fall immediately head over heels. A couple of years on, they team up to scam perfume magnate Mariette Colet (Kay Francis), only for Gaston to develop real feelings for her too. It's not the most convoluted scheme on this list, but the film makes up for it with the complexities of the heart—it's one of the most truthful, sizzling, even-handed and downright sexy romantic comedies ever made.
Bolly mix
Bunty Aur Babli (2005): Bunty and Babli are two avid dreamers -- two free souls born into caged small town realities. They grow weary of being two specks on the horizon. They desire the horizon itself. And, so they pack their aspirations in worn out bags, whip a scarf of confidence around their proud necks and set forth on a journey across the length and breath of the country, spinning circles around the people they meet.
Dhoom 2 (2006): Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan star in the action-packed sequel to director Sanjay Gadhvi's hi-tech hit concerning a malicious gang of Bombay bikers who terrorise the city and leave the citizens shaken with fear. Stalwart good guy Roshan shakes things up by eschewing his do-gooder persona to tackle the role of a ruthless villain, with Aish assumes the role of his cunning girlfriend. And their's on heck of a journey!
Tamanchey (2014): Nikhil Dwivedi and Richa Chadda are two outlaws who are on the run to save their lives. While they find it difficult to trust each other initially, they eventually fall in love. They carry out many robberies and hence find themselves on cops' most-wanted list.
TV Show
Weeds (2005-12) The central character is Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling marijuana to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. Over the course of the show, she and her family become increasingly entangled in illegal activities. The show is inspired by crime series such as The Shield and The Sopranos, in the sense of an antihero serving as the protagonist while retaining an individual moral code, which usually goes against the norms of society.
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