Given the fact that i am a bollywood freak, i just saw the movie "Milenge Milenge" and want to share a few thoughts on Filmy Jodis which are there ON screen and OFF the screen. Just see the trend which is mentioned below....... still i don't know why film makers make this mistake or perhaps they are still ignorant about this and do not study the trends.
Off screen bollywood couples (seeing each other or are married in
real life) should ideally be casted together, only if the script has both of them in the same boat and not against each other. On screen they should come out as couple in love and not show it in a format where one is a villan and one is a hero. Instead both should be shown of being in love after all the masala and game play.Look at movie examples which have bombed or did not fare well in box office when the real life Bollywood Jodi were not in the same boat (i mean when they were shown against each other in the movie or if they have broken up in real life and still casted together, high possibility is that it will not work at the box office.).
Example 1: Kurbaan (Saif Ali Khan & Kareena Kapoor).
Example 2: Fida (Fardeen Khan, Kareena Kapoor & Shahid Kapoor).
Example 3: Milenge Milenge (Shahid Kapoor & Kareena Kapoor).
Example 4: Tashan (Akshay kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali khan).
Example 5: Raavan (Abhishek Bachchan & Aishwarya Rai Bachchan).
Hope the examples mentioned above will throw light on the point i am making. I can put multiple examples on the same and there would be i guess 1 in a million example which may not adapt to this theory.
The ratio of movies getting successful by pairing the couple together and not against each other will surely be huge in reality; hope it can be put up quantitatively by research.
Conclusion: The trend means that they have to be shown together in the film if they are seeing each other in real life and if not together than at least shown friendly with each other in the movie.
But you cannot portray the real life couple fighting against each other and never come together in the movie. It will surely not score with the 'mango people'.
