Valentine's Day: nursing a heartbreak? Bollywood is here to help you

There are many Bollywood-inspired ways to get over a heartbreak.

Bollywoood is giving a fillip to the idea of dealing with a heartbreak innovatively and is romanticising it by dumping sad songs for peppy breakup numbers, and giving out fun ways to move on. From burning your ex's photograph to calling up one's former lover to vent out to dumping -- rather trashing -- the gifts, to going out to party -- there are many Bollywood-inspired ways to get over a heartbreak. And crying over one's failed love story is not one of them. The options, in fact, are being transitioned into ways to celebrate Valentine's Day -- a day dedicated to the emotion of love.

So, if you feel guilty of being single on Valentine's Day, or have just joined the anti-Valentine's Day squad after breakup, don't just end the things on sour note. Filmmaker Karan Johar, who helped in changing the notion with the hit song "The breakup song" in his "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil", feels getting over someone should be as easy as falling in love. "'The break up song' is all about women's empowerment. Breaking up should be as quick and easy as falling in love," Johar said.

For rapper Badshah, breakups are musical -- as is evident from his "The Breakup Song".

"Every boy or girl gets pulled to sad love songs that help them cry, of course it happened to me too, and now when I look back, I laugh at it," Badshah said.

Samir Parikh, Director of Department of Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences at Fortis Hospital in Gurugram, says partying is not sufficient to move on.

"We need to understand that throughout our life, we keep on having very difficult and stressful emotional moments, breakup being one of them. Each of these needs to be seen as a learning experience so that in future we are able to do better and ensure that no negativity of this experience stays with us."

Parikh says having a good time with friends helps get over the negative experience. But that's not it.

"It is about how you live life after that as well."

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