Love Aaj Kal (2009)
9/10
Refreshing and Well Worth Watching.
3 August 2009
Having seen some promos of this movie, I thought "here's another love story" but I was not disappointed at all. The title basically says it all. A young man, living in London, meets a girl and both become friends but as time goes on they break off their relationship but remain good friends and meet each other. But then the girl returns to India and the boy's friend, an elderly gentleman begins so to wonder how his friend is able to treat matters of heart like some sort of transaction. Upon enquiry, his friend also begins to wonder, as to why his friend was so naive with his relationship in his younger days.

Starring Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Rishi Kapoor, Rahul Khanna and Fagun Thakrar, this is directed by the director of "Jab We Met" Imitaz Ali, while Salim Suleiman provide the music score and Rishi Kapoor's wife, Neetu Singh, makes a special appearance.

Deepika Padukone has gone on to drastically improve with this film and it can be seen on the screen. One is able to sense and see that, because of this drastic improvement from her previous movie that she probably feels at ease and it has shown. Saif Ali Khan, in the meantime, is as usual good as is Rishi Kapoor. But what did make it more refreshing is to see Neetu Singh on screen after such a long time, though be it for only a while.

The music by Salim – Suleiman is also good to listen to and especially the "Nagin" tune, which is rather superbly remixed as background score to a song that is worth listening to and it gives a feel to an old movie. It also shows that long distance relationship between a couple is always hard to maintain and sometimes it can lead to a break down. But more than anything else, what this shows is the generation difference and this really well explained and portrayed by the director and where the elder generation is concerned, the director shows it in back flash, which keeps the story moving.

This is definitely one of the better movies to watch and can be enjoyed by both the younger generation and the elder generation . Its already said to be heading in the direction of one of the biggest gross earners this year.
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