Love
Aaj Kal 2.0 Movie Review: Jaane Kyun Log Pyar Karte Hain?
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Reviewer’s
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“I think the perfection of
love is that it’s not perfect” – Taylor Swift
Imtiaz Ali’s film ‘Love Aaj Kal’ (LAK) 2.0 wades
through the troubled waters of whether to fall in love or not to. It is also a
story of continual pursuit for ideal love. To tell this Imtiaz Ali shares with us
two love stories parallelly – one, that has it’s origin in 1990 and the other,
in the present. Raghu’s (Randeep Hooda) and Leena’s (Aarushi Sharma) love story
is the embodiment of ideal and true love for Zoe (Sara Ali Khan), a
career-oriented free bird. Zoe considers her career as her love because she
feels her love is available for her always; when she is alone her love makes
her feel complete; her love is her world. She feels falling in a committed love
may kill her freedom to scale the heights in her career and therefore frets on
the very thought of love but she doesn’t mind to fulfil her physical biological
needs by hopping around in non-committal relationships. Whereas, Veer (Kartik
Aaryan) is in search of true love – a love that is much more than physical. It’s
like Veer seems to believe what William Shakespeare once said – “When I
saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew it”.
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The beautiful theme of true love and the wavering mind
has been fantastically portrayed umpteen times in many of Imtiaz Ali’s films before,
but this time he falters, fumbles and stammers making it too complicated and
messy for the audience to understand what he wants to convey. Amidst these
confusion, Kartik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan, unfortunately, fail to recreate the
magic of Jai (Saif Ali Khan) and Meera (Deepika Padukone) of Love Aaj Kal 2009.
The only joy to watch LAK 2.0 is Randeep Hooda and Aarushi Sharma. Randeep
Hooda’s narration about his love for Aarushi Sharma is commendable and
beautiful. You fall in love with the shy and timid Leena of the ’90s.
Imtiaz Ali plays safe by keeping the same storyline
LAK 2009 but had no other choice but to fiddle with the locations and
situations. Instead of London, it’s Udaipur now and instead of Rishi Kapoor it’s
Randeep Hooda who strikes a chord with Sara Ali Khan to go and pursue her true
love. The camaraderie of Rishi Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan is missing here between
Raghu and Zoe.
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Imtiaz Ali’s attempt to put the old wine in the new bottle
did what Jesus Christ cautioned people from not to do – as the new wine will split
the leather skin of the flask and spill the new wine. Here too, LAK 2.0 spills
into too many forced of emotions, outbursts, confusions, and unnecessary talks
on ideal and not so ideal love.
Kartik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan tried hard to keep the
audience engaged and entertained but unfortunately the harder they tried the
more the audience yawned. The music of Lak 2.0 is in no match to 2009 LAK’s
foot-tapping music which was highly appreciated and loved.
In short, if you are a fan of Imtiaz Ali’s films then
go and revisit Tamasha, Love Aaj Kal 2009, Laila Majnu, Jab We Met, Highway,
Rockstar but avoid Lak 2.0. I feel Imtiaz Ali should take a break now from
telling stories of true love versus confused love, career versus love etc. We
love you Imtiaz Ali, so please give us something new in the near future. Finally,
‘Love Aaj Ka Ho Ya Kal Ka’ I would like to quote Maya Angelou – “Love
recognises no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to
arrive at it’s destination full of hope”.
PEN
Movie Rating: 1.5/5
Cast: Romance/Drama
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Producer: Dinesh Vijan, Imtiaz Ali
Written by: Imtiaz Ali
Music: Pritam (Songs), Ishaan Chhabra (Score)
Cinematography: Amit Roy
Edited by: Aarti Bajaj
Production Companies: Maddock
Films, Window Seat Films, Reliance Entertainment
Distributor: Pen Marudhar Entertainment
Release Date: 14 February 2020
Duration: 141 Minutes
Language: Hindi
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