Love Aaj Kal - movie poster

I love movies, but my biggest problem arises when I sit down to watch Hindi movies. I end up really breaking the movie into parts – with my harsh comments oh god! this section is from this English movie and this one is from this.

All my family hates me for this, they prefer I should watch a movie after everyone had watched it and enjoyed it and am the last one to know about, which is always the case.

What put me off in Love Aaj KaL was one Saif is ok to watch , two kind-a gets difficult to digest and that too a look alike of Ranbir with Rishi Kapoor as a cafe owner. Deepika is nice and so is Giselle as Harlene although she has no dialogues except for a line which I believe was dubbed.

The story tosses between past and present – of Rishi Kapoor narrating and Saif enacting, dialogues sound tacky and unreal most the time. The songs I really could not digest. A bollywood masala movie but they seemed to have lost the touch. The past seems like a simple story well told but the modern version of finding love, leaving and then rediscovering – yes a speciality with today’s generation, but not well told. The punjabi rendition is not very authentic. The timeline get confusing, the movie gets slow between sequences with the comic scenes and dramatic ones lack depth.

Fist half is good and second half becomes over dramatic. Some can act and others cannot. If you want to watch the movie, ok, but it is just timepass. Do not expect it to be great.

As usual the trend is to hype the movie so much, the end result is flat – a Champagne without any bubbles.

By Harpreet Kaur

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