Are you nursing a broken heart? A ‘Crush Course’ is just the thing for you.

To help ease the pain of heartbreak and stop youngsters from taking extreme steps over a failed romance, students of GN Khalsa College have come up with the concept of a ‘Broken Heart Club’. The course is a part of it.

An initiative by the college’s TYBMM students, it was launched on Saturday and aims to reach three other colleges this week in the first phase.

Prabhdeep Singh, student and part of the production team, said, “The course is for all tender-hearts. It’s an audio-visual show depicting 10 couples of the Indian film industry who are said to have had failed/one-sided affairs. Their stories will be enacted after the show. The idea is to show that the end of an affair is not the end of life, and one can come out of it just like these people did.”

Well-known affairs of actors and actresses are expected to strike a chord with students as many are movie buffs and are influenced by celebrities. The club provides a platform to all those having a tough time after a break-up so that they can open up and get the required support and help. Khalsa college students are confident that the initiative will get good response. “Boys and girls will definitely open up in this club,” said Singh, 19, who has been through two break-ups.

Professor Praveish Vishwanath, HoD of BMM and a film historian, said, “In the 15-19 age group suicide is the fourth leading cause of death in the world. This puts quite a lot of onus on heartbreaks on campus. Not to mention, youngsters are already struggling with hormonal changes at that age. But the problem is hardly tackled on the campus.”

“Everyone knows about the alleged affairs of Rajkumar Santoshi and Meenakshi Sheshadri, Parveen Babi and Amitabh Bachchan, and Sanjeev Kumar and Hema Malini. We have taken 10 such pairs whose stories will show how they came out of the darkness,” he added.

“The club will also deal with students having other types of pain, be it sexuality or family problems,” said Jasleen Kaur Virk, a student of Khalsa college who has been Miss Navi Mumbai and will be enacting a Bollywood actress as part of the course.A Facebook page has been launched so that students can join the course, share their stories and get advice. It has 47 members already.