Happy endings that left us unhappy!

One of the most anticipated movies of 2014, Kill Dil (2014) was supposed to mark the return of Govinda into Bollywood. However, it turned out to be a damp squid in the end. The sole important reason for this could very well be the climax, which saw the main couple of the movie re-united with the only thorn in their path removed all-too-conveniently in a firefight. The sidekick of the hero, an assassin by profession, was shown as marching into a new life, that too with a fake degree certificate in hands. By opting to showcase this totally far-fetched "career switch", any chance to salvage this work was completely lost.

Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), though a love story at heart, had a few variations thrown in. The hero and heroine met in a typical boy-meets-girl situation, the only difference being that it was on the heroine's wedding day and the hero was already a much married father-of-one. Over the next seven years, the leads entered into an extramarital affair with each other and pulled the annihilation plug on their respective marriages. A logical ending should have been the leads wallowing in guilt over their actions, repenting over their mistake. Instead, Johar opted to have them walk away into the sunset united in forbidden love; into a relationship whose longevity was doubted by Khan himself.

Farah Khan was on her way to a "maiden over hat-trick", when she decided to team up with Akshay Kumar for Tees Maar Khan (2010). And that put an abrupt halt on her winning streak at the box office. Trounced by the critics and the audience alike, this mishmash tale of a conman and a struggling actress suffered from the lack of a cohesive story and on top of it, had an unbelievable ending with all the ragtag characters finding success in their pursuits, with even an Oscar award thrown into the mix. Tees Maar Khan remains a lesson for what a Bollywood movie should not turn out to be.

A typical Rohit Shetty potboiler, Golmaal Returns (2008) was not expected by the audience to have a script at all. Shetty delivered on this abysmally low expectation by churning out a murder mystery which even Sherlock Holmes would not have been able to solve. The huge number of supporting characters added to the confusion, and the sudden revelation of the true culprit felt forced. Nevertheless, the Golmaal franchise chugs on full steam ahead!

David Dhawan's latest work Main Tera Hero (2014) focused more on Varun Dhwan's chiselled abs than on a story of substance. The main plot was so trivial that all the hero did to get out of an unwanted love triangle was to use a banana peel and make the lady fawning over him literally "fall" in love with another guy. Cut to a happy ending with the hero getting married the girl he loves and the second heroine getting married to the person who rescued her from the fall. Suffice to say the only party left unhappy was the audience, who went to movie halls in the hope of a story!

Writer: Aishwarya S.

Editor(s): Ritchelle C. and  Hershi J.

Graphics: Komal P.