My Personal Favorites

Songs which feel like a warm hug:

• How deep is your love - Bee Gees
• Eternal Love - The Bangles
• Everything I do - Bryan Adams
• Universe - Savage Garden
• Into the groove - Madonna
• True Blue - Madonna
• Wake me up before you go go - Wham!
• Please don't say goodnight - 5Star
• Soul Provider - Michael Bolton
• To the moon and back - Savage Garden
• Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
• Strawberry fields forever - The Beatles
• Purple Rain - Prince
• I'll be there for you - Bon Jovi
• With or without you - U2
• You give good love - Whitney Houston
• Love takes time - Mariah Carey
• By your side - Sade
• Take on Me - A-Ha
• Faith - George Michael
• As - George Michael & Mary J Blige
• I knew you were waiting for me - George Michael & Aretha Franklin
• Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore
• Every breath you take - The Police
• Red Red Wine - UB40
• The way you do the things you do - UB40
• Do Woop that Thing - Lauryn Hill
• All that she wants - Ace of Base
• Ouragan - Stephanie de Monaco
• Je te donne - Jean Jacques Goldman
• C'est ecrit - Francis Cabrel
• Octobre - Francis Cabrel
• La Foule - Edith Piaf
• I want to break free - Queen
• Fame - Irene Cara
• I just called to say I love you - Stevie Wonder
• Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
• Asimbonanga - Johnny Clegg
• Be my baby - The Ronettes

All-time favorites (music):

- The Beatles

- Fleetwood Mac

- Madonna

- Ella Fitzgerald

- Whitney Houston

- Marvin Gaye

- Otis Redding

- Al Green

- Bryan Adams

- Tracy Chapman

- Tina Turner

- Amy Winehouse
- Stevie Wonder

- George Michael

- Prince

- U2

- Vanessa Paradis

- Jean Jacques Goldman

- Francis Cabrel

- Charles Trenet

- Francoise Hardy

- Barbara

- Jacques Brel

- Edith Piaf

- REM

- Coldplay

- Lenny Kravitz

- Def Leppard

- Michael Bolton

- Queen / Freddie Mercury

- The Supremes

- Texas

- Bon Jovi

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

- Frederic Chopin

- Antonio Vivaldi

- A.R Rahman
- Zakir Hussain
- Ravi Shankar

- Shreya Ghoshal
- Any old songs by Lata 
- Any old songs by Kishore

Favorite Books :

Namaste - Marcel Cabon

La Gloire de mon Pere & Le Chateau de ma Mere - Marcel Pagnol

Notre Prison est un Royaume - Gilbert Cesbron

Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

Paroles - Jacques Prevert

Geetanjali - Rabindranath Tagore

Final Harvest - Emily Dickinson

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Harry Potter series - J.K.Rowling

Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Terre des Hommes - Antoine de Saint Exupery

L'Etranger - Albert Camus

Sens Plastique - Malcom de Chazal
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Tropique de la Violence - Nathacha Appanah
Old Path, White Clouds - Thich Nhat Hanh

Favorite Movies:

In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar Wai

Dead Poets Society - Peter Weir
Trainspotting - Danny Boyle
L.A Confidential - Curtis Hanson
The Usual Suspects - Bryan Singer
Seven - David Fincher

Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino

The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont

Invictus - Clint Eastwood

Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood

The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow

Point Break - Kathryn Bigelow

Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind - Michel Gondry

Sense & Sensibility - Ang Lee

Pride & Prejudice - Joe Wright
Alien - Ridley Scott
Basic Instinct - Paul Verhoeven
Central do Brazil - Walter Salles
Babel - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The Reader - Stephen Daldry
Billy Elliot - Stephen Daldry

Talk to her - Pedro Almodovar

The Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme
La Môme - Olivier Dahan
Jaws - Steven Spielberg
Duel - Steven Spielberg
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Steven Spielberg
Under the Tuscan Sun - Audrey Wells
Only You - Norman Jewison
La Gloire de mon Père / Le Chateau de ma Mère - Yves Robert
Oscar - Edouard Molinaro
La Folie des Grandeurs - Gerard Oury
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob - Gerard Oury

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain - Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Dans la Maison - François Ozon

Sous le Sable - François Ozon

La vie rêvée des anges - Erick Zonca

Le Prénom - Alexandre de la Patellière et Matthieu Delaporte

L'Auberge Espagnole - Cedric Klapisch

Cyrano de Bergerac - Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Les Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine - Philippe de Broca
L'Homme de Rio - Philippe de Broca

La Boum 1 & 2 - Claude Pinoteau

Dil Se - Mani Ratnam
Dil Chahta Hai - Farhan Akhtar
Rang de Basanti - Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Masoom - Shekhar Kapur
Sagara Sangamam - Kasinathuni Viswanath

Queen - Vikas Bahl

Kapoor & Sons - Shakun Batra
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Blake Edwards

The Party -Blake Edwards
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - John Hugues
The Breakfast Club - John Hugues

Somekind of Wonderful - Howard Deutch

Karate Kid - John G Alvidsen

Top Gun - Tony Scott
While you were Sleeping - John Turteltaub
Erin Brokovich - Steven Soderbergh

Mona Lisa Smile - Mike Newell
T2 - James Cameron
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Lasse Hallström
The Before Trilogy (but specially Before Sunrise) - Richard Linklater
Reality Bites - Ben Stiller

Begin Again - John Carney

Reservation Road - Terry George
The Man without a Face - Mel Gibson

Freedom Writers - Richard LaGravenese
December - Gabe Torres

Good Will Hunting - Gus Van Sant

Traffic - Steven Soderbergh

Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo Del Toro

Chocolat - Lasse Hallström

Love Actually - Richard Curtis

Notting Hill - Roger Michell

I, Daniel Blake - Ken Loach

Amour - Michael Haneke

Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen

Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis

The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky

Chicago - Rob Marshall

Grease - Randall Kleiser

The Shining - Stanley Kubrik

Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrik

Rebel without a cause - Nicholas Ray

East of Eden - Elia Kazan

The Prince and the Showgirl - Lawrence Oliver

Spotlight - Tom McCarthy