Top 5 Heartbreaking Star Crossed Love Stories of Bollywood

The most iconic and memorable love stories are always incomplete. From Romeo Julliete to Heer Ranjha, the love stories that are passionate always end in death.Bollywood is known for making the romance films, sometimes they have happy endings, but many times they have bad endings.

Laila Majnu

This 2018 film by Imtiaz Ali is based on an old Persian Folktale of Layla and Majnun. This film stars Avinash Tiwary as Qais and Triptii Dimri as Laila and takes place in Kashmir. Qais and Laila belong to two conflicting families, who fall in love, but face opposition from their families. Due to their families and some misunderstandings, the two separate, and Laila marries another guy and Qais goes to London. But fate brings them back together, but something or the other keeps them from reuniting. Eventually, Majnu becomes eccentric and goes to mountains living with the hallucinations of Laila. At the end, Laila kills herself to reach the final stage of love, and Majnu also dies in search of Laila.

Dil Se

Released in 1998, this Mani Ratnam film stars Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala. The film is set against the backdrop of Insurgency in Assam and is an example of parallel cinema.Amar, a journalist, falls for a mysterious woman who does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar later prepares to get married, the woman shows up at his doorstep asking for help. The woman wants to seek revenge for the injustices in Assam and plans a suicide attack on the President. But, Aman stops her and both of them die in the bomb attack in each others arms.

Bajirao Mastani

This historical drama stars Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra and is directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The heroic Peshwa Bajirao, married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family. Eventually, Mastani is killed by Bajirao's eldest son and Bajirao dies due to a battle injury.

Ishaqzaade

Arjun Kapoor's Parma and Parineeti Chopra's Zoya belong to two rival political families and are from different religions. Parma pretends to be in love with Zoya and marries her to take revenge for his family, but along the way falls in love with her. The two are hunted by their families and eventually Parma and Zoya kill each other rather than being killed by their families. 

Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela

Ram and Leela love each other but cannot stay together as their families, Rajadi and Sanera, have been at war with each other for the past 500 years. The two run away and get marries but Leela is captured by her brother and forced to marry someone else. At an occasion, Leela's mother is shot and injured and blame is put on Ram creating a misunderstanding between the two. Eventually the two make a sacrifice and take each others lives.