Preview : Love Aaj Kal
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone
Love Aaj Kal seems to be inspired from the Taiwanese movie Three Times directed by HOU Hsiao Hsien which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The movie Three Times has three stories about a man and a woman, all three using the same actors during three different years 1966, 1911 and 2005. Imitiaz Ali seems to have to set up his movie using atleast Saif during two different years 1965 and 2009. It remains to be seen if this movie is just an inspiration or a copy.
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone
Love Aaj Kal seems to be inspired from the Taiwanese movie Three Times directed by HOU Hsiao Hsien which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The movie Three Times has three stories about a man and a woman, all three using the same actors during three different years 1966, 1911 and 2005. Imitiaz Ali seems to have to set up his movie using atleast Saif during two different years 1965 and 2009. It remains to be seen if this movie is just an inspiration or a copy.
Jai Meera
Jai and Meera are modern-day couple in London. They are very happy together but do not beleive 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.
London, San Francisco, Delhi - 2009
Veer Harleen
Veer Singh is struck by the 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.
Delhi, Calcutta - 1965
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.
