Cliched Romances: Bollywood's fault or Audiences?

I would like to open with the lines, "Wahi kahani phir ek baar, majnu ne liye kapde phaad macha tamasha beech bazaar." This line holds true for the clichéd romances everywhere. In Bollywood, the romantic genre has gone out of hand. There is a "formula" which seems to be followed by every Bollywood director who is into making romance.
                                                         

To make a romantic Bollywood "drama" follow the following steps:

Step 1: Girl meets Guy.

Step 2: Sparks happens and songs are required for emoting love.

Step 3: There has to be a "tragedy" or a "bad guy" who shall not allow our lovebirds to be at peace.

Step 4: The Guy and the tragedy come face to face , there is action and bloodshed.

Step 5: A sad song re-asserting the guy and girl's love. Emotion also added to spice up.

Step 6: Girl and Boy triumph the world and happily ever after.

Viola! Here is a typical clichéd romance ready to serve.
                                                

Bollywood should grow up and stop recreating DDLJ in various forms. Befikre,  Dilwale,  Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, Ramaiya Vastavaiya  etc. are all examples of different make-over of DDLJ. Some of them were hits but majorly most of them were flop.

                                      

Bollywood has sure grown up, but it seems to "feed" audiences with the same cliched writing and that has been too repetitive but when the audience response is great, the makers tend to make more of such cliched romances.  The biggest example being Aashiqui 2. A particularly cliched script and such a humongous response. So what and who is to be held responsible for this? As of now,  movies like Mirza Juliet, Laali ki shaadi mein Laddoo deewana which released recently have just cemented my belief that Bollywood is feeding audience with cliched romances.

                                                   

And as the tradition is, a person gets 'used' to eating what they have been fed with. That is what has seemed to happen with the audience. Constantly they have been fed with the same formulaic stories to which they have got used to. So it will not be wrong to hold Bollywood wrong for not innovating new stories. A particular out of the box love story, 'Lootera', was attempted which agreed was a slow movie but had a beautiful storyline, terrific storyline, cracker dialogues, soulful music but failed at the box office because our industry had already fed the audience with so many make-overs of DDLJ that they became a little too 'intolerant' to new ideas.

                                                                

 

Bollywood should also understand that romance is sea of expression which has a lot of potential. It is just that our film makers are just "too lazy" to explore and 'risk' into something new They may have a feeling "Jo chal ra hai wo chalne do. Baaki dekha jayega." And this feeling is the reason we fail the romantic genre.  Though movies like 'Piku' and 'Paa' had subtle undertones of romance. They did exceptionally well at expressing that.

                                                    

As it is said, "What's gone is gone let's look to the future." Alas, I would like to say that movies like 'Raabta', Raula' are releasing which may give a new ray of hope to the romantic genre.

 

                                                

 

P.S. Even to this day DDLJ remains every 90's kid's guilty pleasure. As of after 2010, Lootera is the best romance ever since 2010.