Love Aaj Kal...

Finally the post on thee much awaited movie. The movie whose music had made me crazy and the movie I was really really dying to see, of course because it was the sequel of Jab We Met.

Although the expectations were very high from the movie, specially because of Jab We Met and somewhat because of the good casting and music but the mixed type of feedbacks which I got from my friends was making me even more restless to watch the movie and decide myself. Alas, the movie didn’t turn up the way I had thought. I found it just ok ok types.

Noooo, I am not at all biased because of JWM/ In beginning, I had to push the pre-quel out of my mind a couple of times but then I totally forgot about JWM, as my mind got occupied with all the loopholes of LAK *grin*.

The starting itself was awful- the practical Deepika and the usual cpnfused commitment fearing Saif were not looking like lovers, rather looking like make out buddies with absolutely no chemistry between them.

The old Rishi Kapoor is looking cute but Saif playing the young Rishi Kaoor is looking equally iritatinf. The role of a turbanded sardar can never suit the choclatey Saif and of course no question of looking a khatarnaak wala sardar as Rishi Kapoor calls himself in his younger days. I really wonder where are all the beautiful Indian models and actresses are gone as the director had to select this Brazilian girl for the role of Harleen Kaur. It was pathetic to see the artificial looking girl dancing stupidly on the lal al al al song. Ufff!!!

Initially the 2 symmetric stories of Jai- Meera and Veer-Harleen looked untolerable. Something was definitely missing because of which the past and the present was not able to blend properly. Of course everytime the editing cannot be as good as Rang De Basanti and Rock On where we don’t really feel when are we taken into past and when we are back into present but this one was actually below average. May be Imtiaz Ali is not that experienced with this type of direction.

The music which was making me crazy, was not at all justified by the picturisation of the songs in the movie. The senti and melodious song- Dooriya was murdered by adding it in the initial 10 minutes of the movie- at a time when there was no story, no depth and no momentum in the movie!! Though it looked excellent when the 4 lines are played at the end of the movie when Deepika comes down from the ladder and Saif looks at her with the affection in her eyes. I really wish they had added a proper situation to do justice to this lovely number.

The chor bazari video is still ok if we forget that its supposed to be shot in Delhi (oops- dilli :D). But my favorite song – Aaj Din Chadiya, the innocent lyrics I loved is not at all taken seriously in the movie L

The story is not bad but still too much for Indian audience. The broken marriages are still not happily accepted by masses and hence Deepika kind of betraying poor Rahul Khanna only because of her confusions is not a good idea to show. Had it been their engagement in place of marriage, it would have added more sanity to the movie *grin*

The only 3 scenes I liked in the movie- firstly, the phone chat between Saif and Deepika when she is in flite. Hey, she has copied this from me. This is my style- to keep talking on phone while boarding the flite and hanging up only whne the air hostess pats on my arm with a smile and tells me to switch off the mobile. Copycat!!! The other scene I liked was the one Deepika getting married and Saif’s speaks blah blah blah- knowingly unknowingly he speaks everything in his heart but shows as if he is trying to convince the girl though he is actually trying to convince himself. Poor guy!!! And last and the least, the end sequence- right from Saif asking out Deepika, Doriya song and Neetu aunty’s entry. Only Ranvir Kapoor was missing from the complete family as the bahu Depika was already there *grin*.

Bus aur kuch nahi tha movie me- no good humour, no good costumes, no good story, no good dances, nothing yaar!!!