Love Aaj Kal is a Bollywood movie starring Saif Ali Khan as Jai Vardhan Singh and Deepika Padhukone as Meera Pandit..This movie launches Saif Ali Khan as a debutant producer.The co-producer of the movie is Dinesh Vijan.Love Aaj Kal has been directed by the very vivacious director Imtiaz Ali who has earlier given Romantic comedies like Socha Na Tha(2005) and the blockbuster Jab We Met(2007).The music is given by the new age music director Pritam and lyrics are written by Irshad Kamil.
The story revolves around two timelines : the new generation couple Jai and Meera and the love story of the late sixties between Veer Singh(portrayed by Saif Ali Khan) and Harleen Kaur(portrayed by Giselle Monteiro).The former share a very casual relationship without any liability and get out of the relationship when they felt its hindering their career,whereas the latter share a very quite and intense relation which is very pious and they are ready to spend a lifetime or even more together as Veer Singh's dialogue shows:"is janam mein aur har janam mai yahi meri votti banegi...".The later age Veer Singh is played by Rishi Kapoor who keeps counselling Jai and tries to make him understand about true love by narrating his love story to him.At times the two analogous stories going simultaneously in the movie tend to confuse the audience. Especially in the first 15 minutes of the movie the storyline cannot be understood.But as the movie develops it shows a lucid storyline.You will be reminded of Hum Tum at certain places because of the two simultaneous running stories.The movie carries a self attained taste and should not be compared with the last two movies of Imtiaz Ali.The dialogues of the movie go well with the two generations shown in the film.There is a cameo appearance of Neetu Singh who plays later age Harleen Kaur.Rahul Khanna also has a small role playing Vikram(Meera's fiance).
The music of the movie is very diversified having party song like "Twist",an emotional number like "Ye Dooriyan" and Punjabi song like "Aaj Din chadeya".The music of the movie adds further spice to its storyline.
The movie has been shot in Red Fort and Purana Quila , and various places in Delhi apart from being shot in London,San Francisco and Kolkata.
The movie is a must watch atleast once and I would rate it 3.5 on a scale of 5.
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