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Love Aaj Kal (2009)
Interesting take on Bollywood "love"
Love Aaj Kaal is a modern romcom (romantic comendy) that tells the story of a young, contemporary couple Jai and Meera who reside in London. It stars Sai Ai Khan as Jai, Deepika Padukone as Meera, along with Rahul Khanna, Rishi Kapoor and Giselli Monteiro in supporting roles. The film starts with quickly traversing through the two years that is Jai and Meera' s relationship, and the actual premise of the plot begins with their amicable breakup due to their respective jobs pulling them in different directions. Their breakup is even celebrated by a party, where Jai meets Veer Singh (played by Rashi Kapoor), whose disdain over the split and their treatment of it leads him to tell a story about the love of his time. In a series of flashbacks, he depicts his love story between him and Harleen Kaur (Giselle Monteiro), with whom he falls in love at first sight, igniting an overpowering and "classic Bollywood" romance. The rest of the movie then flips back between the modernity of Meera and Jai's love versus Harleen and Veer's.
Through the film going back and forth between the two romances, and depicting the eventual reunion of Jai and Meera, it acts as a testament to epic and transcending-reality aspect of love that Bollywood has trademarked, in that love is still essentially the same. It achieves this in a duality-like manner, where not only does the film plot speak to that notion of what Bollywood deems love should look like, but the make up of the film itself. In the first aspect, as Jai finds himself pairing with Meera in the end, it suggests Veer's story of the classic Bollywood romance of love as essential makes Jai realize the same. This is as opposed to love being one of the many things about life to worry about, which seems to be the trademark of this modern romance that Jai and Meera have catered their relationship within. In the second aspect, the film's modernity itself, the setting in London, the inclusion of a non-Indian love interest, speaks to the initial notion that love has changed and it is no longer this all consuming aspect.
However, it is through even Saif playing a young Veer in the flashbacks, as well as Meera's position as a restorer in India, that is able to "build a bridge" (might as well be the meaning of Jai's job as a bridge engineer), that this "old" love has never really been forgotten in the past, but continues transcend time and all the obstacles modern day society presents.
Love Aaj Kal (2009)
Interesting take on Bollywood "love"
Love Aaj Kaal is a modern romcom (romantic comendy) that tells the story of a young, contemporary couple Jai and Meera who reside in London. It stars Sai Ai Khan as Jai, Deepika Padukone as Meera, along with Rahul Khanna, Rishi Kapoor and Giselli Monteiro in supporting roles. The film starts with quickly traversing through the two years that is Jai and Meera' s relationship, and the actual premise of the plot begins with their amicable breakup due to their respective jobs pulling them in different directions. Their breakup is even celebrated by a party, where Jai meets Veer Singh (played by Rashi Kapoor), whose disdain over the split and their treatment of it leads him to tell a story about the love of his time. In a series of flashbacks, he depicts his love story between him and Harleen Kaur (Giselle Monteiro), with whom he falls in love at first sight, igniting an overpowering and "classic Bollywood" romance. The rest of the movie then flips back between the modernity of Meera and Jai's love versus Harleen and Veer's.
Through the film going back and forth between the two romances, and depicting the eventual reunion of Jai and Meera, it acts as a testament to epic and transcending-reality aspect of love that Bollywood has trademarked, in that love is still essentially the same. It achieves this in a duality-like manner, where not only does the film plot speak to that notion of what Bollywood deems love should look like, but the make up of the film itself. In the first aspect, as Jai finds himself pairing with Meera in the end, it suggests Veer's story of the classic Bollywood romance of love as essential makes Jai realize the same. This is as opposed to love being one of the many things about life to worry about, which seems to be the trademark of this modern romance that Jai and Meera have catered their relationship within. In the second aspect, the film's modernity itself, the setting in London, the inclusion of a non-Indian love interest, speaks to the initial notion that love has changed and it is no longer this all consuming aspect.
However, it is through even Saif playing a young Veer in the flashbacks, as well as Meera's position as a restorer in India, that is able to "build a bridge" (might as well be the meaning of Jai's job as a bridge engineer), that this "old" love has never really been forgotten in the past, but continues transcend time and all the obstacles modern day society presents.