Tuesday, July 15th, 2008...11:15 am
Love Story 2050 Movie Review
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Finally I caught up with this movie few days ago but now repenting about why did I watch this movie. This is one of the worst movies I have seen in recent times. This movie can be surely made as a case study for testing your patience and I am sure everybody will flunk in that test. After all, it’s that rare breed of film that gets almost nothing right — starting from a script that’s so predictable, direction that is surprisingly absent, and acting that is so amateurish that you would want tell them to take a course in acting before they try their next film.
For anyone still interested, here goes the review.
The movie kicks off in present day Adeleide where Karan (Harman Baweja) falls head over heels in love with Sanaa (Priyanka Chopra) on seeing her chasing butterflies in a park. The movie then proceeds in the expected manner i.e. guy wooing the girl, doing stupid stunts to make her happy etc. Harman Baweja hams through out the film and tries to ape hrithik in almost every still of the movie, the most used dialogue being “I don’t need luck, I have love”. After a lot of unbearable childish wooing and many songs later she returns the sentiment, then a trip to his uncle, Uncle Ya’s house is also made who is researching on inventing a time machine and like in a normal bollywood movie she dies, gets killed by a speeding truck when she is crossing the road.
The movie kicks off in present day Adeleide where Karan (Harman Baweja) falls head over heels in love with Sanaa (Priyanka Chopra) on seeing her chasing butterflies in a park. The movie then proceeds in the expected manner i.e. guy wooing the girl, doing stupid stunts to make her happy etc. Harman Baweja hams through out the film and tries to ape hrithik in almost every still of the movie, the most used dialogue being “I don’t need luck, I have love”. After a lot of unbearable childish wooing and many songs later she returns the sentiment, then a trip to his uncle, Uncle Ya’s house is also made who is researching on inventing a time machine and like in a normal bollywood movie she dies, gets killed by a speeding truck when she is crossing the road.
Then again a whining session of Harman Baweja starts. In the next scene we realise that Miss Sana had ‘rightly’ corrected genius Uncle Ya’s equation (Alpha to infinity) , thus enabling the proper functioning of his ‘Time Machine’. So unable to bear up with his whinings, they take off for a trip to future. For some strange reason they’re convinced Sanaa is alive and is in Mumbai 2050. This is where the intermission break was given and I’m sure I heard every person in the multiplex was overjoyed to hear the Intermission bell.
Next, we are transported to the world of flying cars, virtual maids and robot sidekicks, Sana is Zeisha now and a famous international popstar. Karan tracks her down and stalks her everywhere like an obsessed teenager right from her mid air concert to her talk show on TV and also her ridiculously strange Xbox gaming Session and suddenly the modern day sci-fi theme takes an ancient Bollywood turn with the reincarnation theme where he tries to rekindle memories of her past life with just one song and succedes in bringing her to the present day.
Somewhere in the middle of all this, there is also a archetypal villain (who chooses to keep his face covered with a mask for reasons very well known) who is after the scientist’s time machine and won’t give up until the protagonists are chased through out the specially created futuristic city.
Performances: Harman Baweja is on of the biggest blows of the movie who is so busy to look, dance and act like Hrithik Roshan that we forget that it is not a Hrithik’s duplicate who is acting but Harman Baweja. Priyanka Chopra tries to give justice to her performance but fails to evoke any emotion of sympathy or affection. Quality actors like Boman Irani etc are simply wasted by the director in the movie. Though the special effects manage to salvage some pride but still is not enough to save the movie from being a disaster.
Trivia: Interestingly if you observe the background score in the later parts of the movie, it is highly inspired from Avast! antivirus virus detection tone 
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