Love Aaj Kal bollywood movie
Release Date: 31 Jul 2009
Genre: Romance
Language: Hindi
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Producer: Dinesh Vijan
Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty
Review
With that Jai Meera’s love story unwraps in London. Love today meets love yesterday and both are left puzzled.
Jai (Saif Ali Khan) and Meera (Deepika Padukone) are a couple in London who live for today with each other and not for each other. Passion evades Jai while Veer is full of it. Expressions change but love remains and absence makes the heart fonder – these are a few lines of thought the movie explores.
Imtiaz Ali, who earlier directed Jab We Met and Illuminati Films, brings to Bollywood, love in the times of now and then, inspired by the Taiwanese film “Three Times”.
Love Aaj Kal (Hindi: लव आजकल, English: Love Now and Then) is a forthcoming Hindi film starring Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone in lead roles with Rahul Khanna and Rishi Kapoor in supporting roles. The film is directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Saif Ali Khan and Dinesh Vijan. It is said to be a hindi remake of Taiwanese film Three Times,directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Love Aaj London, San Francisco, Delhi - 2009. Jai and Meera are a modern-day couple in London. They are very happy together but do not believe in tying each other down. So when life pulls them in different directions, they decide to go with the flow. "These Heer-Ranjha, Romeo-Juliet type janam janam ka saath type couples exist only in story books," Jai says. In the real life, we have to be practical. Love Kal Delhi, Calcutta - 1965. Veer Singh is struck by a thunderbolt when he sees Harleen for the first time. Soon after, he stands under a tree and swears that "is janam mein aur har janam mein... yehi meri votti banegi - Harleen Kaur." He travels a thousand kilometers by train to stand under her balcony only to have a glimpse of her face. And yet not speak a word with her. Love Aaj Kal Veer does not understand how Jai can treat matters of the heart without passion, like a financial transaction. Jai does not understand how Veer Singh could have been so naive and silly about Harleen in the days of his youth. But as both stories unfold, we realize that the process of relationship might be different in different eras, but the experience of being in love remains the same. So there is the frolic and despair of modern living, the liberation and confusion. And there is the past - the times of innocence and compulsion. And there is distance, and the fondness that increases with distance. Gaps widen between two people, but bridges keep growing too.
Veer does not understand how Jai can treat matters of the heart without passion, like a financial transaction. Jai does not understand how Veer Singh could have been so naive and silly about Harleen in the days of his youth. But as both stories unfold, we realize that the process of relationship might be different in different eras, but the experience of being in love remains the same. So there is the frolic and despair of modern living, the liberation and confusion. And there is the past - the times of innocence and compulsion. And there is distance, and the fondness that increases with distance. Gaps widen between two people, but bridges keep growing too.
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