Movie Review-Love Aaj Kal

It was Friendship’s Day and I wanted to be with friends, so whats good than a movie…damn..there I was mistaken especially when I considered a Bollywood movie . I had such high hopes of Love Aaj Kal. Being an Imtiaz Ali flick, the expectations were high. ‘Jab we met’, even ‘Socha na tha’ were awesome love stories.

Even though like every one said ‘Jab we met’ was exceptional and I too agree with it. I missed  Kareena’s Geet character from ‘Jab we met’ and the flow of story of the film. All I saw was Saif Ali Khan who according to some reports used Botox in order to look younger when acting opposite 24-year-old Deepika Padukone.

The love stories of “today” (aaj) and “yesterday”(kal)  goes parallel . Rishi Kapoor narrates his love story and takes us in the era where ‘Veer‘ (Rishi) is in deep love with ‘Harleen‘ and is happy just having a glimpse of her face and wishes that she should her life partner in all his lives. Saif Ali Khan plays the role of  “Veer” (Young Rishi Kapoor). The punjabi kudi (Harleen) who played the role of Rishi Kapoor’s love of life, isn’t a Punjabi kudi at all. She’s a 19-year-old Brazilian model ” Giselle Monteiro” who couldn’t speak Hindi or dance but still a part of Hindi movie 😛 . At one point of movie she brought a hot glass of black tea under her dupatta to give to “Veer” who just stood below her house . Harleen’s family was shown as a typical 1950 Indian family which is against love marriage. But in the end Veer and Harleen easily run away and settle downs in London. These incidents made me wanted  to be born in the 1950s. Almost as though my life would be so much more simple and beautiful if it could actually be in sepia.

In parallel the present goes with Jai (Saif) & Meera (Deepika) as modern day couple in London, who likes to lead a practical life to go along with the flow of life. And the scene where Deepika is marrying to another guy and Saif is watching just touched me a bit.But in the end they  realize that love cannot be transformed and tampered so they end up living a happy life together.

Overall this isn’t a bad film at all. It’s just that I’d come to building some solid expectations from Imitiaz Ali. I came out of the theater and was  just not  fuzzy enough but at some  point in the movie  I thought of getting my ticket money back from the theater owner.