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I return to my blog, which I have lazily ignored (“My Bad…!!!I’m sorry Blog…”) to really appreciate and talk about the most amazing piece of work that Indian Cinema has produced in a while. Love Aaj Kal has an effect that will enthrall audience who are the hard-core romantics or the people who love to see happy endings in a lovey-dovey flick, and will entertain those who want to see dance and enjoy peppy music and will fascinate the ones who, even today, care about where the movie is shot.

The Entire movie is aesthetically written over a very sensitive topic, that we today choose to rather casually ignore, ‘True Love’…“Oh C’mon, how different is it from the DDLJs or the KKHHs or the KNPHs?”…you have to trust me, when you see this one you will be left with nothing less than a pleasing smile on your face as you see the ending credits whiz vertically down the screen.

Oh Great! I actually started talking about this backward to the front…LOL! But, seriously I don’t want to discuss the story ‘coz it would render the entire purpose of watching the movie ‘pointless’. What I do want to say is that Deepika Padukone in her ‘Best Performance’ till date has simply left me speechless. She acts effortlessly, she emotes more than naturally, and it is hard to believe that the Banglore chick is new to cinema just because she has only 4 releases to her credit. The one thing that has really been her best feature according to me is her smile, and this has been very beautifully exhibited all throughout. Mind-blowing acting!!!

Saif Ali Khan, is a man who has to be saluted. Firstly, for the risk he has taken in making the movie at a time when a lot of people would think more than just thrice before blowing up about 300 rupees in seeing the movie in the multiplexes (Thanks to the Global Economic Slowdown… )…the actual risk being making a movie on a story that is more than used over and over and over and over and over and over in the past God alone knows how many years of the Film Industry or documented acting as a whole. And secondly, for a performance par-excellence. When you  see the 40+ actor pull off a few, well I’d say, pretty difficult dance moves or a few intense scenes with Comedy or Trauma in their story-line, is when you see that the man is a man to stay. The panache with which he carries himself is great (An understatement).

Rishi Kapoor, a sutradhar (Literally meaning Narrator, but in this movie an intregral character playing more than just that), is seen in his jovial but uniquely serious self. Rishi-sahab has according to me shown the true ‘Kapoor-effect’ in this movie and his ending sequence with the moment marking  the return of the evergreen Neetu Singh Kapoor was cutely awesome.

The locations, props, dresses, and all of the remaining logistics that make a movie a movie are simply beautiful be it the English Countryside or the streets of London or the Gullies of Dilli or streets of San Fransisco, simply B-E-A-U-tiful.

You have to see this one, and if you can’t appreciate it, I pray for you.

Cheers!

Apurva…