Hard to pinpoint, I thought, when asked recently by an academic researching a book on Shah Rukh Khan, on why romances with a grand sweep, that you call 'Bollywood' in the first place - songs, dances, the works; directed by Raj Kapoor, Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai etc, over generations - had stopped getting made altogether.

I wonder if that's even true, besides the fact that, unlike in the past, a hero-heroine romance in a supposedly Bollywood way, doesn't need to be force-fit into a film, regardless of its genre, for it to be considered 'mainstream' anymore.