10 unconventional friendships on-screen who were rather wholesome to watch!

Sometimes, the most unexpected friendships occur under the most bizarre circumstances, and these on-screen besties are proof of that!

There are a plethora of on-screen best friends we love but watching an unconventionally odd pair of people blossom into friends is just another level of satisfaction. These pairs are usually brought together by unforeseen circumstances like a murder, getting stuck in an unfamiliar place, a panic attack in a metro, the fear of getting eaten by an alien creature or the corporate world! What makes these duos so special is that they’re a wholesome reminder of the fact that friendship has no age or boundaries. As humans we can often look past our differences and be open to being friends with all kinds of different personalities! We expect these friendships to eventually fall apart, but that’s the thing, they don’t! And that’s why they became so well-known in pop culture!

Also Read: On-screen best friend duos who could totally pass the sister vibe check!

Here’s some bestie duos we didn’t know we needed!

Phool and Manju Maai- Laapata Ladies

When Phool is left behind in an unknown station by her husband, she has no idea where to go or what to do. She was a coy, timid girl who just wanted to get back home safely. Here’s when Manju Maai took her under her wing and taught her things even her own parents couldn't do all their life. They had wholesome conversations about being an independent woman, earning your own money and, more than anything, having an identity of your own. Manju Maai gave her the opportunity to know what it feels like to earn your own money. Who would’ve thought that a stranger who you met on a train station would become one of your friends/ mentors for life!

Iravati and Preetam- 8am Metro

Iravati meets Preetam while she is having a panic attack before getting into a metro. He eases her anxiety through his words and becomes an everyday companion for her. Both of them have had dark pasts that they’re still getting over and hence find solace in each other’s friendship.

Ben and Jules- The Intern

It is unconventional enough for a CEO of a company to be best friends with the newest intern but it is entirely another when the tables are turned, and the intern is actually 80 years old and the CEO is a 35 year old woman. Ben was the calm in Jules’ chaotic life and his experience in life so far was exactly the guide book she needed to navigate her work-life balance!

Steve and Dustin- Stranger Things

Steve was the high school bad boy and Dustin was just a kid in middle school. Nobody would’ve thought these two would ever cross paths with each other. But with the demogorgons and Will’s disappearance is when things go upside down for them, literally! Steve’s arc from the spoiled brat to taking care of Dustin like an elder brother is one of the most endearing unconventional friendships we’ve watched on-screen!

Lexi and Fezco- Euphoria

Lexi was the girl next door who did everything by the book. When all her friends were either doing drugs or were cheating in a relationship, she was busy studying and writing her play at home. And then there’s Fezco, a high school dropout who sells drugs for a living. If this isn’t unconventional, we don’t know what is! The two might have poles apart lives but what brought them together was their introverted personalities and the fact that no one really looked at them at a party. Both of them wanted a listener to just hear them out and they exactly become that for each other eventually!

Saajan and Ila- The Lunchbox

An office-going widowed middle aged man and a housewife become pen pals and communicate via food, we would’ve never thought to watch a story like this one! They’ve never met once in person but were more understanding of each other’s issues than anyone in their lives ever were!

Rani, Oleksander, Tim and Taka- Queen

All four of them were from different nationalities but what brought them together were their conversations and the experiences they had while figuring out Amsterdam by themselves. The three guys actually treated Rani with a lot of respect and like a queen. Be it letting her use the bathroom first or helping her out with her Pani Puri food stall, they had so much fun and made memories of a lifetime together!

Shashi and her entire English class- English Vinglish

Shashi joins an English class and in her journey of learning a new language, she also finds friends who she can resonate with in her class. Since none of them can communicate in English, it becomes the biggest commonality for them to become friends and motivate one another to do better!

Mabel, Oliver and Charles- Only Murders in the Building

Mabel, being a Gen Z doesn’t seem like the kind of person who would go out of her way to become friends with Oliver and Charles who are rather old! But when a murder takes place in their building, the three of them realize they’re living in their very own murder mystery and hence come together to solve it, just like their favorite murder podcast that all three of them are obsessed with!

Arya and The Hound- Game of Thrones

Arya and the Hound’s friendship did not start on a great note. In fact she hated him for killing one of her childhood friends, Mycah. But after she learns that he actually saved her sister Sansa from a group of savages and accompanied Arya too till she reaches back home, she learns a great deal about using a sword and life from him. Arya brought out the more emotional, soft side out of someone as tough as the Hound and we loved watching their arc on Game of Thrones.

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