Movie: Love aaj kal

Director: Imtiaaz Ali

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Dumbika Padukone, Rishi Kapoor

Rating: 2.5 *

Bakwaas. K, with whom P and me were watching the movie, scowled.

K is the most practical of us three and is a logical  guy. It was quintessential for him to get frustrated but, what worried me was he was angry too! Cursing why he chose to come to the movie. He quickly spat a few colourful abuses and excused himself out of the gent’s room.

Relax mate. I tried to sooth him. Mainly because the movie was OK, to be frank I liked it very much. It is not that bad as you are projecting it to be. I protested.

Shut up A, this is utter non sense. He resisted! Ha! Time pass movie hain! It was P’s time to give his 5 cents.

I donno, I liked the movie. May be because, there were questions at the very beginning. I did not like how ye dooriyan  was wasted. But as soon as the questions were being answered I was in. I do not have any complain K, now stop being so critical about the movie. Just enjoy it dude! I said in the cheeriest of my voices.

Ha time pass movie hain! P interrepted again!

Enjoy? Time pass? What is the concept here? The guy and the girl are too practical and decide to part ways as life pulls them off, trying to be practical and all. And when they are successfully off, an  old man tries to make them realize what love is! My foot! This is utter garbage; I’d seen hell lot of movies like this till now, why cant we just get something fresh and out of the box man? said K grabbing some pop corn and coke and marching into the theatre. He did not seem to have enjoyed the first half at all.

You never were in love, were you?

No, SO?

May be you are not able to relate yourself to  the movie.

Stop being so stupid A. If romantic movies are meant for people only in love then most of them would never be successful commercially. Or I never would have liked the movies DDLJ or for that matter JTYJN . Now stop being so idiotic.

But the movie is so cool, nice humour, Saif is sounding so funny man! Good dialouge delivery, nice cheeky lines. All laughs; what else you want? More over Rishi uncle is awesome isn’t he?

Ha yaar! time pass movie hain!

Are you nuts A? Dont you realize the movie is so similar to Jaane Tu ya Jaane na? It is stale, there is nothing new here! I dont need to pay so much to watch this nincompoopery! And look at Deepika! What does she think? She looks as if she was surprised by the camera when she was doing her daily routine, we have so many talented artists why do we just go mad behind all these stars man! And that other tall and lean girl, I donno her name, she is so clumsy. Why do these directors take us audiences for granted, damn it!

NO! It is not similar to Jaane tu….. I protested meekly as we settled in the theatre. The second half of the movie started.

And all it took was some 10 minutes for me to realize that it is indeed similar to Jaane tu ya jaane na. I kept mum as I too started believing more and more that there is no plot at all and it is just an old wine in new bottle. The more the movie progressed the less I wanted to convince K, I somehow got the feeling that he must be right.

The movie did not seem to strike the correct note with ferocious K and I did not intend to start any conversation with him. There is no use to discussing the movie with P he is bad at judging and is very sensitive. So I called my friend S who watched the movie already.

Note: Spoilers ahead!

Me: hello how are you doing?

S: Heyyyyyyyyyyyy! How was the movieeeeeeeee?

yeah the mov……

I liked the first haalf sooooo much man!

ha the first ha………

but the second half was sooo bakwaas, it was so unecessarily dramatic man!

actually the second half wa…….

you know what? I wished the movie ended after that dinner party when Meera tells Jay that her boyfriend proposed her for marriage.

but that would be pretty short movie na! I managed to complete the sentence this time.

yaaaa! but what was shown was soo unreal man! no girl would break her marriage for her ex boy friend who is not even sure whether or not he loves her. But Deepika so gorgeous, no?

yeah yeah! but she wa…..

And didn’t I tell you? All the songs would fit in fine and jolly good they did! Except for that stupid main kya hoon by KK, that song was stupidly made. I felt Dooriyan was wasted and Choor Bazaari was not that well picturized. Aaj din Chadeya was too good though! no? Ahun! was put at the end though, not that it could fit else where!

Yeah! I agree! But you know what? The transition from past story track to present story track was improper. May be Ismail would have used some different colour scheme. Reverse chronological narration of present story just added to the trouble and some one forgot to edit the whole thing properly! Add it up with dismal performances by Deepika and the other lead lady, the movie did not have live up to the expectations.

Yeah man! I am better off watching Jab we met again. More so, Kareena would have been a better option than Deepika, what say?

Yeah! Even I thought so. But we can definitely watch once, can’t we?

Yeah, if we are prepared for the boring second half. I would rate it at 3/5 you?

I would rate it at 2.5/5, can’t be more than that! How about dinner today evening?

Oh! I am so sorry A, I am busy. Why K and P are busy is it?

Hey! I just remembered, even I am busy. I will have to write a review for my blog!

Note: All the characters in the review are fictious and I dont care even if they resemble someone