All’s well that ends well. 

This is probably the motto of every Bollywood movie, especially ones that fall into a romance or action genre. Well, love and war, both are more complex than that.

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Movies create a dream world where the hero always wins, gets the girl and they live happily ever after. In real life though, people get married off, beaten up and unfortunately die too. 

However, some films have managed to tap into the real world where people lose, sometimes love and life. 

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These movies deserve a shoutout for going against the grain and serving its audience with a more realistic and satisfying ending rather than the same old happy ending.

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Here are five such movies that gave us exactly the ending we needed:

Disclaimer, spoilers ahead.

There was a time when Bollywood glorified stalking a girl as an act of love and ended with the girl falling in love with her stalker. 

In Raanjhanaa, Sonam Kapoor’s character has an obsessive lover who stalks and threatens her but she refuses to give in. 

It ends with Dhanush helping Sonam who still hates him and dying with her beside him.   

The best part about Kangana’s Queen was its wholesome ending. 

Even when her ex-fiance approaches her for marriage after calling it off once, she doesn’t go back to him. Instead, she politely refuses the hero’s proposal because she values herself more than simply getting hitched to the guy for the sake of it. 

The beautiful story of childhood sweethearts who are divided by class of society and the pride of the families, Devdas ends on an even more satisfying and realistic note than the story itself. 

Although the sets and costumes were larger-than-life, the ending with Devdas dying on Paro’s doorstep was anything but happy and superficial. 

For a movie that’s set around a supernatural and fantasy theme, it’s ironic that the characters and ending are just too real. 

The father-son duo is gripped with greed which becomes a bane for their lives. The father loses his life and the audience is left with a moral message instead of a happy ending.

In a perfect Bollywood world, Aishwarya’s character Nandini would have reunited with her lover who was practically a man-child. In the real world, that doesn’t happen. 

No woman would choose a guy like Salman over the supportive and genuine Vanraj played by Ajay Devgn. 

But to think about it, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali is never about those unrealistic endings, anyway. 

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