Love Aaj Kal Review
Movie Review: Love Aaj Kal; Star Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, debutantes Giselle Monteiro and Florence Brudenell Bruce, Rishi Kapoor and Rahul Khanna ; Director: Imtiaz Ali; Rating: **** – Definitely not to be missed.
Studying in London, Jai (Saif) and Meera (Deepika) are in a relationship for two years but when career beckons, they mutually break off their relationship. Meera prepares to go to India to pursue her career in old historical places restorations whereas Jai waits in London with a hope of getting his dream job in San Fransico’s Golden Gate Co. The couple though broken off decides to keep in touch via net and phone calls and continue to remain friends. Restaurant owner Veer Singh (Rishi Kapoor) is a silent observer to their break up process since it happens in his restaurant. Unable to bear the far too casual approach related to affairs of heart of the couple, he tries to convince a reluctant Jai that he is making a mistake. Sensing that Jai is not taking him seriously, Veer then starts narrating him his own love story with Harleen Kaur (Giselle Monteiro) which took place far back in 1965 in Delhi. From then on begins the unfolding of these two love stories running parallel together which incidentally end up with a similar culmination after many twists and turns which also are similar despite the different period zones.
After making the much loved Jab We Met, Imtiaz Ali succeeds in giving us an extremely different love story that we have never witnessed before on Indian screen. He scores high on his writing and his treatment of the film. In the initial 10 minutes he successfully establishes Saif and Deepika’s relationship and their character quirks. He surprises you then by putting a melancholic song (Ye Dooriyan) as opening credits role showing montages of various important twists of the plot that lie ahead. In fact his screenplay is indeed full of surprises ahead, especially in the second half. As you begin to anticipate a particular thing happening ahead in the plot, almost 9 times out of 10 he proves you wrong. Making the film extremely relatable to everyone who has ever been in love and broken off with his/her partner, Imtiaz takes it notches higher by his dialogues that sound simple but convey a lot. Plenty of scenes stay with you as you come out. Imtiaz has repeated his technical team trio of JWM – Aarti Bajaj (Editing), Teddy Maurya (Art Direction) and Cinematographer (N. Nataraj Subramaniam) and each of them have excelled in their respective departments. Music of the film by Pritam is already ruling the charts and thankfully none of the songs act as speed breakers. The picturisation of Main Kya Hoon in San Francisco showing various changes in Saif is simply fantastic.
Without any doubt, these are career best performances of both Saif and Deepika and it should not be a surprise if they both end up winning most of awards for this year. Saif has always been at ease playing the cool no strings attached dude but in here he also succeeds in playing the brooding romantic Sardar Veer Singh very well and is extremely impressive in the post interval emotional sequences. Deepika wins hearts not just by looking extremely attractive throughout but also with the effortless ease she portrays her complex character. Rishi Kapoor is extremely loveable as the mature Veer Singh and lends tremendous dignity to his character. Debutante Giselle Monteiro manages to speak volumes just through her expressions. Rahul Khanna in a special appearance is good and suits the character perfectly well. Raj Zutshi playing Harleen’s father reminds of Pawan Malhotra’s character of Kareena’s uncle in Jab We Met. Florence Brudenell Bruce playing Saif’s Swiss girlfriend doesn’t have much to do but manages to do a good job.
Love Aaj Kal is a film definitely not to be missed. It offers us something fresh and and is a unique experiment in story telling and direction that works big time. It is one film that Saif, Deepika and Imtiaz shall always be proud of whenever they look back at their career.
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Its a beautiful movie. I loved it. It gets serious in last 30 minutes after Deepika’s marriage. Saif is a darling and Deepika is superb too. But best is Rishi Kapoor.
a rubbish movie which lasts only 4 120 mins as deris no story..
plzzzzzzzzzzzzz don’t watch………..
Its a kind of a love story…..like jane tu jane na…. Not so good but u can watch this movie for a single time….
its good movie but ilove the story of 1965 i loved harleen kaur shes is very beautiful i loved her eyes
Please dont accept this review at all.This is a total lie…..the movie is baseless and the characters don’t know what are they upto….
dekhte hai!!
kya hai!!
movie main!! kuch nahi to dipika to hai!!
Nice Movie, except for the last 30 minutes.
I Love the actor who played Younger Harleen, in the movie.
Utter **** movie Deepika padukone doesnt know how to act It is a torture trying to see her acting only bright psot is the 1965 love story and the girl harleen
love aaj kal looks like jab we met movie, does anybody agrees with me or not? it is just a movie, is it hit or flop movie, just asking.
not a good movie atall….disjointed…poor screenplay…expected better from Imtiaz Ali.
just a one time watch!
all of songs r excilent. speciali ahu ahu & chaka…..
Utter Rubbish movie. It was complete torture.
this was utter torture. it was one of the worst films of this decade. girl and boy celebrate the break up. girl marries and then is confused.. im gona throw up.
This movie is nowhere close to Jab We Met. Except for the Twist song the whole story of this movie is twisted. It was so slow and boring to start with. The movie has no direction and no purpose.
It is pathetic. The movie may score at the box office due to the tremendous publicity but it does not deserve any accolades.
As for Saif’s nose well that is another story. It is quite prominent.
If it is true that Saif had botox he should have trimmed the nose a little. Side shots of him are awful.
Absolutely **** movie. DO NOT WATCH.
i want to know if love aaj kal is a hit or flop, can anybody tell me please?
i have seen love aaj kal but i find movie boring, a story was too nice, i find saif ali khan when he played double roles in movie very good. deepika reminds me of easha deol,
Haven’t seen the film yet but it looks rly gud, no matter wot any1 says, Deepika is a fab actress, not a big fan of saif though. the music is rly gud, gna go to da cinema and watch it.
Watch movie for entertainment, not for reality, If you want reality and comparison, write your own life story, it will be more boring to others.
why would they bring a brazilian ***** to act in an indian movie? like there are no pretty indian girls that thay have to go all the way to brazil to get this ugly thing? other than that, the movie was good. entertaining. i’m still pissed with hiring the brazilian chick. i can understand if the role was for a white girl. but they hired a brazilian to act as an indian. its still pissing me off.
Giselle Monteiro as harleen looks very beautiful,deepika padukone is just ugly. saif did a very good role.
boring movie , confuzing story ,,,,,,,,,,,, one thing is good that is songs , really dissappointing after watch the movie
**** all movie watch it if you want to spend extra money or spend it on cloths and accessories utter ****!!
don;t watch waste of time
i agree with people here who says waste of time but very boring movie because there wasnt anything good apart from rishi kapoor’s love story, rest of movie way to boring.
not a bad movie, but nowhere near as good as jab we met…
DONT WATCH THIS FILM:
my comments for the reviewer above.
AWFUL FILM MATE YOU SHOULD NOT BE A REVIEWER…I think you should stick to your previous job.
the movie is not so bad n also not so good as jab we met
but was expecting it to b a good movie
hi!saif.
how r u?
plz sent me your all photos on 22.dipali@***** .com.
imtiaz ali taj can not grap the movie like jb we met.it is difficult to say movie is flop.
kavhi dekhnaa maaat……………….
fully bour movie……
rishi play is good…..
but saif and deepika………play bour…..
aissaa story aage vhi bohot banaia gaiaa hae…..
mene movie nahi dekhi kya likhu but i like song chor bazari and aahun aahun aahun
Faltoo!
why would they bring a brazilian ***** to act in an indian movie? like there are no pretty indian girls that thay have to go all the way to brazil to get this ugly thing? other than that, the movie was good. entertaining. i’m still pissed with hiring the brazilian chick. i can understand if the role was for a white girl. but they hired a brazilian to act as an indian. its still pissing me off.
not gud movie love aaj kal…
HI; DEEPIKA
LOVE AAJ KAL VERY NICE MOVIE.
AND PLZ PLZ PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
YOU SENT ME YOUR AAL PICS BECAUSE I LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOOOOO MACH
Msg for that persons who dont like “LOVE AAJ KAL” movie.
agar aap ko ye movie pasand nahi to baraye mherbani is movie k bare mein kuch ulta sidha mat kahin Q k aap logo ki msg par kar jo love aaj kal movie se mhobat rahkte hain unka dil dhokta hai jese k aap logo ne mera dil bhoat dhokaya.
aur han jo mera ye msg recieve kar raha hai usay mein request karta ho k wo deepika g ko is msg k bare mein inform kare Q k phele bi mein ne bhoat msg bheje hain lekin koi reply nahi.
I LOVE “LOVE AAJ KAL” AAL MEMBERS.
MAST DEEPIKA LOVEEEEE SOOOOOOOOO MACH.
THANKS.
VERY GOOD MOVIE , SUPER HIT OF THE YEAR
excellent movie must watch
FANTABULUS , I REALLY LOVE IT
CLOSE TO AVERAGE MOVIE…..
STUPID PART IS GETTING MARRIED WITH KHANNA. DIPIKA KNOWS SHE LOVE SAIF, STILL ALL SHOWING ****.
FINALLY KICKING BACK ON KHANNA’S **** & WAITING FOR SAIF TO COME BACK.
it was a good movie but it become slow it is definately good than kambakht ishq it was a cheap film and i love deepika
its not 2 bad or not a superb movie , we can watch it at once not more than that
was not an awesome film, there were bits i liked it was well made directed edited and dialogue in some bits i felt the actors were uncomfortable with but this its a good movie if you’re taking you’re girlfriend!
SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPER HIT MOVIE
I LIKE IMTIAZ ALI BECAUSE HE MAKE A SUUUUUUUUUPER HIT FILM [LOVE AAJ KAL]
hi **** girls
darling
very disappointinggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
The story and plot are my real life. Just saw the movie and was aw struck. My story is comparetively at the phase when they both break up and saif is preparing 2 go 2 SF 4 Golden Bridge. But after this movie I dont want 2 miss my Deepika…
Tell me guys what should I do SF r GF