Love Aaj Kal (2009)

Powerful

People are voting emotionally.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

one of the most amazing movie i have come across, one of the reason is that it resembles to my life as well but still great performance by everyone and i still watch it despite of this movies being old... Saif, Deepika Rishi sir all gave their best performance i'd say 9.5 out of 10. really good presentation.. one must watch this movie. highly recommended

I though "Jab We met" was both enjoyable and entertaining. Movie characters can be over the top (as they were in Jab we met) but the success of a story is their connection to some reality. That's where Love Aaj kal fails...The characters of the key protagonists are just not reflective of what we see in most people...the idea that folks today are too preoccupied with their work and complicate their personal lives is fair and interesting theme to work on...the idea that a couple would break up, do a break up party and smilingly split up is absurd...that's the same issue with the saif (rishi kapoor) character...I am not too sure the 60s were full of people who would spend weeks and months just standing and staring at the woman of his dreams... this juxtaposition of two generations doesn't workThe story is equally absurd...the angle of deepika's character getting married and then realising she's is in love...imtiaz - better luck next time...

The three films that Imtiaz Ali has directed so far have a common theme running through them - the protagonists do not realize that they are in love till the very end. In all three the real drama is not in how the lovers meet or fall in love or the peripheral characters (like family or friends). It is about realization. That he does it successfully third time in a row probably tells that Imtiaz Ali either feels very strongly about the concept or that he has had some real life experience of his own.Love Aajkal starts with Jai (Saif) and Meera (Deepika) breaking up. They are apparently very practical about their relationship and plan it such that it goes along with their other plans for life. Only that life, as always, has plans of its own. The more time they spend away from each other, the more they realize they are meant to be together. To catalyze the Jai's end of the realization process we have an amiable old café owner, Veer (Rishi Kapoor). Veer's love story in flashback is a parallel track to Jai-Meera's. Both the stories run juxtaposed with each other to a predictable but nevertheless heart warming climax.Saif plays both Jai and the young Veer. He is top notch in both roles. Flambouyance comes naturally to him when he plays Jai and he is very convincing as the rugged and (at times) clumsy Veer. Deepika is at ease in the role of Meera. It seems as if she is playing herself. At the dramatic scenes, however, like the one immediately after her marriage where she is impatient to talk to Jai, and the scene following that when she is talking to Jai over the phone, she betrays that she still needs to learn the ropes. She looks stunning in every frame. Perfect foil to the glamorous Meera is the docile and beautiful Harleen. She is pretty as a picture, though she hardly speaks in the entire film.Imtiaz Ali is an inspired director. He knows his characters and his story. He is more focused on technique this time, compared to Jab We Met or Socha Na Tha. I guess that is because he was aware that he has a weaker story in hand. He handles the two tracks brilliantly, managing to keep both engaging. His editor delivers the goods for him to achieve that. A noteworthy good work by the editor is the sequence at the beginning where we see the cast and crew credits. It is a collage of scenes from the complete film.The songs go well with the film (though with Pritam, I don't know how much of it is original). The background score could have been more imaginative.Love Aajkal is easily the best romantic comedy of the year so far. Worth watching.

GREAT!!! This is the word that comes in my mind when i think about this movie. Imtiaz Ali has done it again after jab we met, to make a romantic movie with a Punjabi touch with really great songs as an icing on the cake.Saif Ali Khan as Sikh was the BEST... i guess nobody has portrayed a Sardar in a movie as perfectly as Saif Ali Khan... Harleen Kaur was simply beautiful... Deepika's acting was BAD.... Rishi Kapoor was good. all in all a great movie with GREAT songs. though i didn't like "chor bazaari"...A must watch for everyone.NOTE: If you liked "Jab we met", you gonna love "Love aaj kal"...GO WATCH IT..