Love Aaj Kal – is it worth watching?

 

Answer is a YES!! , in fact it is a must watch for people of the new generation and people of the current or previous generation. Does not leave anybody I guess . The reason I make these strong statements is because this film is unlike any other love story seen on the Indian screens in the recent past (except for Dev D).

So what makes ‘Love Aaj Kal’ so unique? Well there are plenty of reasons, but the top one is the freshness of the story itself. While we are there, the story, is alien to the normal middle class India and would largely seem illogical for the present or the older generation. But none of the characters shown are from the middle class, so if one is not able to relate to the story then fine, just view it as a story of a rich London settled guy and gal. The brief interlude every now and then of the previous era love story set in India only add to the magic.

Apart from the story what stands out are the dialogues and visuals. The dialogues are witty and not melodramatic as a normal Bollywood love story.

Go enjoy the ride !!

The director Imtiaz Ali’s Jab We Met was very well appreciated. It was good, no doubt, but the current one is lot lot better.

Race – Film Review

Watching the Miss Universe peagent is intersting and alluring , but I find the question answer part the most boring and I don’t think anyone in the judges ever decides on the winner based on that. Race is also on similar lines, glossy to the core, almost looks like a series of catwalks all through the movie. Race is supposedly a murder thriller, and yes there is a murder (a fake murder , though), but thriller only in some rare occurances. So is it watchable?, Ofcourse, would you want to miss Miss Universe especially if there are couple of Indian enteries and some excellent locales for a backdrop.

Race is a tale of two brothers trying to outwit each other, and also in the process also try outwitting the insurance company which would give 100 million (now we no longer talk in crores ??!!) . Only hitch is that one of the brother must die ‘accidently’ for the other to get those millions. Now starts the most complicated plan just to bump off one of the brothers. Akshay no expression khanna is the younger one and is projected as the bader of the two , the handsome,six pack Saif is the elder one . The elder one is always a step ahead and obviously wins most of the times. Most of the film, we are shown both the brothers being just brothers loving and caring, it is only at the intermission that we get to know that one of them or rather both of them are out to get each other and also the 100 million.

Bipasha plays the female lead, but one would be wondering for most part of the movie who is her male counterpart, same is the case with the other female lead Katrina beautiful kaif. Story is complicated so I woul’t try putting it in words. But can only mention that there are sufficent twists in the tale that I guess Sherlock Holmes would give up this case without even a try. But given Abbas Mastan (directors) we have Anil Kapoor with a pretty secretery S Reddy solve this murder mystery, wait did I say murder, well actually there is no murder, yes no murder but yet a murder mystery and investigation with Anil Kapoor solves. Enough of confusion , it might just be good to add at the risk of giving the story away that Anil kapoor too is involved in the whole setup.

All the actors except for Akshay do their job well, especially the female ones do their job well. Their job obviously is very easy, catwalks with every little to act, ok not to be too harshh, Bips does have a considerable role and she does her job quite well.

Music is good, btu could be lot better, 2 of the songs are hits and hummable. ON the whole a watchable movie but nothing great or so.