India, Feb. 4 -- What is Bollywood if not love expressed in the grandest gestures, songs drenched in longing and destiny anchoring relationships to happy endings? The Hindi cinema did a decent job at romanticising every glance, touch and twist. But is every love story as beautiful as the movies make them out to be? Beneath the fairytale romance lies a far more unsettling truth: not all tales of hearts are meant to heal. Some haunt us, break us apart and drive us to insanity with no way to return. These dark and twisted narratives of romance in Bollywood movies force us to break the conventional ideas of love set by the industry itself.

From deeply toxic lovers' tales to immoral actions romanticised without accountability, these Bollywood...