Starring in Bollywood movies for a living can be hard. When the audiences start loving you with a certain someone, they expect every film to have the same level of chemistry. It’s worse if you’re dating your co-actor off-screen and people cannot get enough of you two together. We’ve all been there when it comes to shipping B-town couples and suffered miserably.
The awkward part comes when you’re no longer a couple but everyone already loves you two together. Take Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor. Since they dated during their debuts and audiences had seen what their chemistry looked like, it was hard to move away from that iconic picture. Of course, Ranveer Singh wiped all of that away like makhan (how did he make us fall in love with him so hard?), there’s some part of us still shipping Randeep till we die.
It’s not just them, the following couples left us with equal amounts of trauma.
1. Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor
They were the couple that most 2000s kids grew up with. Not only did they date publicly, Jab We Met released right around the time of their break-up, which made it so much harder to get over. How could we love Geet and Aditya but not have Bebo and Shahid together IRL? We’re actually still recovering.
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2. John Abraham and Bipasha Basu
They were the hot couple we all wished would get hitched. They dated for a good 9 years from 2003 to calling it quits in 2011. While Bips said in a TOI interview back in 2012 that their break up was “definitely not amicable”, John said otherwise when later quizzed about it. We still have visions of their chemistry from movies like Jism.
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3. Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor
We saw them in Bachna Ae Haseeno when they were actually dating and then fell in love with their chemistry in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Tamasha, after they broke up. Although the latter had its marketing gimmicks and clever advertisements, there’s no denying that this ex couple were fire when they were together. So much so that they continue to be friends, bring in the New Year’s together and celebrate birthday bashes because why not?
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4. Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma
Long before the two were married to their successful currents, the duo were making cute lovey-dovey movies like Band Baaja Baaraat and Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl together. Although the couple never publicly admitted to seeing each other, the rumours were rife about their love affair.
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5. Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra
After his breakup with Bebo, Shahid found solace in the arms of PC and it showed. From their incredible chemistry in Kaminey, we were convinced that this pair was probably going strong. However, Priyanka moved to the US and became an international icon whereas Shahid married Mira Kapoor through an arranged marriage.
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Lead Image Credit: Shree Ashtavinayak Films + Dharma Productions
