Romance movies are great but our favourite kind is when the love is subtle and not in the face.  

However, most of these beautifully elusive love stories often remain unfinished, leaving the audience wanting for more.  

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There are so many movies where we saw romance brewing between characters but it never materialised. The couple we shipped for the entire movie couldn't or didn't end up together while we were waiting for them to run off to the sunset together.  

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Here are five such not-so-romantic Bollywood movies which gave us unforgettable but unfinished love stories that we really wanted to see more of:

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We could all sense the romance brewing between Piku and Rana. They were poles apart but still, the chemistry between the two was unmissable. 

The ending of the movie does hint at the chance that the accidental friendship could grow into something more as they were shown playing badminton together.  

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Although they didn’t know each other, Dan finds himself growing closer to Shiuli after a terrible accident. He starts to take care of her and gets along with her mom too. 

We would have loved to see both of them knowing more about each other. However, it ends on a very sad note. 

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Again, the two lead characters never meet, but they develop a bond over exchanged letters and a tiffin box. Saajan becomes a confidant to Ila who is in an unhappy marriage and the two start to bond over being lonely. 

In the end, Saajan seeks to find her, but does he? Ugh. We’d never know.   

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After having multiple failed relationships, Kiara finds Jug, a therapist who helps her look at life differently. 

When she confesses her love for him after her therapy sessions are over, he says nothing can happen between them. But Jug’s chair creaking, in the end, does give the audience hope for a romantic sequel, maybe? 

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An underconfident and underestimated Shashi meets Laurent and feels appreciated for the first time. 

We all know Shashi had feelings for him, albeit small, but couldn’t act on it because she was married. In the end, they remain friends and her husband and kids realise her worth. 

But, we can’t help but wonder what could have happened if they got together.

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Could anyone forget how perfect Kammo and Dharamvir Malhotra were for each other? Although Malhotra comes to Punjab to complete his son’s love story, he also finds a second chance at love with the sweet Kammo ji. 

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