Movie: Love Aaj Kal
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Genre: Romance, Musical, Comedy, Drama
Time: 2009
Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and Rishi Kapoor

Snapshot of the story

The story revolves around a young couple, Jai Vardhan Singh (played by Saif Ali Khan) and Meera Pandit (played by Deepika Padukone) and their love affair.
The movie becomes an emotional drama after their mutual break up as they were not ready for a lifetime commitment with each other. The old man Veer Singh (played by Rishi Kapoor) meets Jai in coffee shop and explains to him that true love happens once in a lifetime and he should not leave her.
The story then takes a flashback turn and he narrate his own story to Jai, that motivates Jai and then the story takes a serious turn that was well directed despite a flat story line.

Movie review of Love Aal Kal

The story starts with a young, dynamic, dashing and heartthrob Jai Vardhan Singh who is rich and has a young and gorgeous girl friend Deepika Padukone, studying archeology and in her final year of graduation. Both of them don’t love each other but stays together for fun and platonic relationship. Both are opposite to each other in personality and both had faced many heart break in the past. This time both of them decide that they should remain separate as they are not ready for any commitment. After their friendship breakup both start living their own lives but some where in their heart they miss each other tremendously which is depicted well in the movie. This is where Veer Singh, friend of Jai Vardhan come into the picture and try to convince him that this is what a true love is and he should do something about that.

On the other side Meera also realizes that she is fondly in love with Jai but separated by their promise she hesitates in trying to meet up with Jai. Jai’s coffee house friend plays an important catalyst to their love story goes and aflash back as Veer Singh tells him how he found his true love against all odds. This gives a lot of confidence to Jai in expressing his feeling to Meera.

Final Thoughts

This is the first onscreen presence of Sail Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone, both look very good with Deepika stealing the show from Saif Ali Khan. The movie is a good one time watch as Imtiaz Ali has made so so movies in the past with a weak storyline in this helping. The emotional scenes are the high points of the movie that keeps the audience glued to their seat. At times movie looses the track and becomes boring but music of the movie score well over the weak plot.

Rating

Love aaj Kal score 6 out of 10 purely because of on screen presence of the romantic couple Deepika Padukone and Sai Ali Khan with a sensational Pritam’s dance floor number.