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Story: Corrupt cop Chulbul Pandey (Salman Khan) needs to bridge the distance with his step brother, Makkhi (Arbaaz Khan) and stepdad, Vinod Khanna, on the behest of his mother (Dimple Kapadia) even as he needs to set his own house in order by marrying the potter girl (Sonakshi Sinha) who refuses to succumb to his charms. And if that's not enough, there's the local goon, Sonu Sood and the crumbling administration of the small town that is craving his attention too. Can Chulbul Pandey deliver?

Movie Review: For anybody who wants to know what is the on-screen definition of Bollywood (read popular mainstream Hindi cinema), Dabangg is truly text book fare. It's loud, crazy, zany, exaggerated, larger-than-life, almost nonsensical, totally make-believe, comic book like, complete kitsch, generously peppered with the mandatory desi tadka (garnishing) of songs and dances that keep popping out of nowhere and is literally oozing with star charisma. Most importantly, it's not meant to make sense. It's only meant to entertain. And entertain, it does in overdoses. No, this isn't meant for people who are looking for different cinema. Nor is it meant for the viewer who likes movies to appeal to his head. Yet, for those who celebrate and serenade the `silliness' of mainstream masala movie lore and swear by its popcorn quotient, Dabangg is the greatest getaway of the season.

Debutant director Abhinav Kashyap chooses to walk the road that makes a complete U-turn from brother Anurag Kashyap's edgy, hard-hitting, realistic cinema and opts for a signature tune that re-invents the age-old formula in aaj ka idiom. Plot-wise, the film might make you cringe with it's hackneyed tale of two squabbling step brothers who have the arduous task of keeping the great Indian family together. And guess who's making life even more difficult for the parivaar? Who else but the local goon (Sonu Sood) who tries to play one brother (Arbaaz Khan) against the other (Salman Khan).

But all this brouhaha about a non-story is truly irrelevant, because there never was supposed to be a story in Dabangg. The only factor that was supposed to be there was Salman Khan, Salman Khan, Salman Khan...followed by some more Salman Khan. So just sit back and savour the star power of an actor who chooses to enunciate the role of a thoroughbred entertainer. Salman's corrupt cop act as Chulbul Pandey, playing Robin Hood in a semi-rustic environment is so engaging, you are willing to forgive and forget everything else. As soon as you begin to realise the film hasn't moved at all in terms of story, bingo! There comes Salman swinging his bare fists around, ducking bullets, spewing mischievous threats and abuses, making eyes at his girlfriend (Sonakshi Sinha), creating chaos in his dysfunctional family and breezily breaking the rules with his brattish ways. And in case you still tend to get a bit restless, there is the Pelvic! Watch him gyrate in sync with all those uproarious tunes and you'll be down to your last coin, having flung all the loose change you have on chartbusters like Munni Badnam Hui....And finally, if you still want more, there's the shirt-ripping sequence, where our desi hulk gets to showcase his sculpted torso without having to unbutton it. It simply tears on its own! Now didn't we tell you Bollywood films have their own undefinable logic....

Dabangg is designed as a vehicle to showcase the star charisma of Salman Khan and the actor literally hits bull's eye. He has a ball on screen and makes sure you join the party too. Aiding him are two special factors: the excellent action choreography by S Vijayan (watch out for all of Salman's slow motion antics and the Matrix bends and leaps that are sure-fire taali-seeti fare) and the foot-tapping music score by Sajid-Wajid and newcomer Lalit Pandit. The locales of the film too are exotic and re-create the hinterland ambience that is becoming so popular in Hindi cinema today. Set in a small, sleepy, one-horse town in Uttar Pradesh, Dabangg creates an alluring canvas of decay and dissolution, even as it celebrates the ordinariness of the aam aadmi's life.

In terms of performances, the show is definitely anchored by Salman Khan, but debutant Sonakshi Sinha too stands tall. As Salman's silent, shy, yet gritty girlfriend, she has great screen presence and a spontaneous charm. Bad guy, Sonu Sood too ends up as an interesting adversary to our local Robin Hood while Arbaaz Khan articulates the angst of the underdog brother. But hey, in the end, Dabangg is not about theory and analysis; it's only about the Zandu Balm effect of cinema: completely home grown, hybrid, purely desi stress-busting therapy. Period.

A word about:
Performances: It's a Salman show all the way. The actor is completely in command as the larger-than-life entertainer who knows all the rules of the Bollywood hero act. Newcomer Sonakshi Sinha too impresses with her spontaneity and spunk.

Story: Now that's the weak link. Too hackneyed, this tale of sibling rivalry.

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Lafange Parinde

Yash Raj films revealed the first look of Neil Nitin Mukesh and Deepika Padukone starrer ‘Lafangey Parindey’. The film has been directed by Pradeep Sarkar.

The story is set in the gritty streets of Mumbai. It is believed that the film is about the bike gangs of Mumbai. Neil, who has performed some daring stunts in the film, plays a character with an interesting name - ‘One Shot Nandu’.

Deepika on the other hand will be seen in an action-based avatar - Pinky Palkar, where she will ride bikes and do daredevil stunts. The actress reportedly refused to use a body double.

Yashraj Films’ ‘Lafangey Parindey’ will hit the big screens worldwide on August 20

Inception Movie Review 2010 Gallery

Inception

THE STORY can either be told in a few sentences, or not told at all. Here is a movie immune to spoilers: If you knew how it ended, that would tell you nothing unless you knew how it got there. And telling you how it got there would produce bafflement. The movie is all about process, about fighting our way through enveloping sheets of reality and dream, reality within dreams, dreams without reality. It’s a breathtaking juggling act, and Nolan may have considered his Memento (2000) a warm-up; he apparently started this screenplay while filming that one. It was the story of a man with short-term memory loss, and the story was told backward.

Like the hero of that film, the viewer of Inception is adrift in time and experience. We can never even be quite sure what the relationship between dream time and real time is. The hero explains that you can never remember the beginning of a dream, and that dreams that seem to cover hours may last only a short time. Yes, but you don’t know that when you’re dreaming. And what if you’re inside another man’s dream? How does your dream time synch with his? What do you really know?

Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a corporate raider of the highest order. He infiltrates the minds of other men to steal their ideas. Now he is hired by a powerful billionaire to do the opposite: to INTRODUCE an idea into a rival’s mind, and do it so well he believes it is his own. This has never been done before; our minds are as alert to foreign ideas as our immune system is to pathogens. The rich man, named Saito (Ken Watanabe), makes him an offer he can’t refuse, an offer that would end Cobb’s forced exile from home and family.

Cobb assembles a team, and here the movie relies on the well-established procedures of all heist movies. We meet the people he will need to work with: Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), his longtime associate; Eames (Tom Hardy), a master at deception; and Yusuf (Dileep Rao), a master chemist. And there is a new recruit, Ariadne (Ellen Page), a brilliant young architect who is a prodigy at creating spaces. Cobb also goes to touch base with his father-in-law, Miles (Michael Caine), who knows what he does and how he does it. These days Caine need only appear on a screen and we assume he’s wiser than any of the other characters. It’s a gift.

But wait. Why does Cobb need an architect to create spaces in dreams? He explains to her. Dreams have a shifting architecture, as we all know; where we seem to be has a way of shifting. Cobb’s assignment is the “inception” (or birth, or wellspring) of a new idea in the mind of another young billionaire, Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy), heir to his father’s empire. Saito wants him to initiate ideas that will lead to the surrender of his rival’s corporation. Cobb needs Ariadne to create a deceptive maze space in Fischer’s dreams so that (I think) new thoughts can slip in unperceived. Is it a coincidence that Ariadne is named for the woman in Greek mythology who helped Theseus escape from the Minotaur’s labyrinth?

Cobb tutors Ariadne on the world of dream infiltration, the art of controlling dreams and navigating them. Nolan uses this as a device for tutoring us as well. And also as the occasion for some of the movie’s astonishing special effects, which seemed senseless in the trailer but now fit right in. The most impressive to me takes place (or seems to) in Paris, where the city literally rolls back on itself like a roll of linoleum tile.

Protecting Fischer are any number of gun-wielding bodyguards, who may be working like the mental equivalent of antibodies; they seem alternatively real and figurative, but whichever they are, they lead to a great many gunfights, chase scenes and explosions, which is the way movies depict conflict these days. So skilled is Nolan that he actually got me involved in one of his chases, when I thought I was relatively immune to scenes that have become so standard. That was because I cared about who was chasing and being chased.

If you’ve seen any advertising at all for the film, you know that its architecture has a way of disregarding gravity. Buildings tilt. Streets coil. Characters float. This is all explained in the narrative. The movie is a perplexing labyrinth without a simple through-line, and is sure to inspire truly endless analysis on the web.

Nolan helps us with an emotional thread. The reason Cobb is motivated to risk the dangers of inception is because of grief and guilt involving his wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard), and their two children. More I will not (in a way, cannot) say. Cotillard beautifully embodies the wife in an idealized way. Whether we are seeing Cobb’s memories or his dreams is difficult to say — even, literally, in the last shot. But she makes Mal function as an emotional magnet, and the love between the two provides an emotional constant in Cobb’s world, which is otherwise ceaselessly shifting.

Inception works for the viewer like the world itself worked for Leonard, the hero of Memento. We are always in the Now. We have made some notes while getting Here, but we are not quite sure where Here is. Yet matters of life, death and the heart are involved — oh, and those multinational corporations, of course. And Nolan doesn’t pause before using well-crafted scenes from spycraft or espionage, including a clever scheme on board a 747 (even explaining why it must be a 747).

The movies often seem to come from the recycling bin these days: sequels, remakes, franchises. Inception does a difficult thing. It is wholly original, cut from new cloth and yet structured with action movie basics so it feels like it makes more sense than (quite possibly) it does. I thought there was a hole in Memento: How does a man with short-term memory loss remember he has short-term memory loss? Maybe there’s a hole in Inception too, but I can’t find it. Christopher Nolan reinvented Batman. This time he isn’t reinventing anything. Yet few directors will attempt to recycle Inception. I think when Nolan left the labyrinth, he threw away the map.

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Salt movie

A typical Hollywood spy thriller often delves into exploring and showcasing the impossible, without caring too much about how realistic the plot or its character looks. It’s different that the lead actors in these films play their roles convincingly and thus make these films believable...

Coming back to the archetypal espionage thrillers, the dare devil spy of the film is a killing machine who can bring down whoever and whatever he wants within a couple of minutes. Is he a superhero? No, but a man blessed with super stunt abilities? Yes.

Bond films, Mission Impossible, Bourne Identity are classic examples. An overdose of action and style is good enough to keep us entertained and once that’s done, one doesn’t give much importance to the loopholes in the plot...Salt being a classic example.

When CIA agent ‘Evelyn Salt’ (Angelina Jolie) is accused of being a Russian spy deployed to assassinate the Russian president during his visit to the US, Salt flees in order to prove that she’s innocent. As CIA believes Salt is guilty, she jumps across the tops of speeding vehicles on a freeway, dives from a helicopter, rides a bike manically and uses all her possible ‘training’ to escape from the clutches of whoever thinks she is a culprit. But, things are not as they seem. There is more to this conspiracy than meets the eye. In agent ‘Salt’s’ style, no body is, who they say they are. Who exactly is ‘Evelyn Salt’ then!

We are told, the film was originally offered to Tom Cruise before it came to Jolie as Cruise had prior commitments. No wonder Cruise didn’t take it. After all, Mission Impossible and Knight and Day were on the same lines. The script was rewritten for Jolie and it is the actress who infuses that spark in this otherwise formulaic action thriller.

Angelina establishes herself as the queen of action once again. She proves she is no less than a man when it comes to playing an out-and-out ‘action-oriented’ character. We quite liked the actress in ‘Wanted’ too. Scarlet Johansson (Iron Man 2) or any actress who wishes to be a femme fatale can take up some coaching from Jolie on how to get that body language right. Jolie as Salt, speaks less kills more and does it all in style. She shows no qualms in letting go of that iconic sex appeal as she gets into the skin of her character by actually getting all daring and dirty!

If you are looking for novelty in films, there is nothing new about ‘Salt’ except for its attempt at letting a female protagonist tackle the bad guys on her own. The film’s climax has its share of twists and turns which aren’t too predictable but not jaw-dropping either.

Salt has some hair-raising action scenes and solid performance by Jolie but it suffers as far as the script is concerned. There is no depth to the characters and no insight into their lives as a result of which the audiences can’t connect to what they see onscreen. The post Cold War paranoia seems half baked and thus its effect on the story insipid.

If you like Angelina Jolie, this one’s quite an entertaining popcorn film. By popcorn, we mean the 'regular' salted popcorn. Don’t expect a caramel or cheese in it! If expecting logic? You can give this one a miss.

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This film has a common man as its protagonist and talks about the corruption he resorts to, to adapt to a bureaucracy, which he believes he can’t change single-handedly. Pretty much like talented filmmaker Priyadarshan who gave us rare gems like Kaala Paani and Kanchivaram but has more often served us coal-tar cinema by acclimatizing himself to the tastelessness of Bollywood bureaucracy. And then he calls it Khatta Meetha .

So Priyadarshan continues his ritual of remakes by revisiting his own 1989 film, Vellanakalude Nadu (starring Mohanlal and Shobana). The utmost upgrading he does to the two-decade old plot is by altering the Malayalam milieu to Marathi to which you can only say nanachi taang (to hell with).

The film opens with some civil contractors embroiled in a scam when the bridge they had constructed, collapses. But the bridge breakdown has little link to the plot which gives more room to accommodate Akshay Kumar and his antiques which invariably means loud performances, slapstick humour and chunks of commotion and chaos. Sachin Tichkule (Akshay Kumar) is a road contractor under heavy debt. He also has an extended joint family though the horde of half-baked characters has no significant role in the story.

A new municipal commissioner (Trisha) arrives in the area who happens to be Sachin’s ex-girlfriend. A flashback account of their boring college bonding and equally bland break-off is as much roadblock to the narrative as much as Sachin finds in his civil career-graph. A road-roller episode directly derived from the cult television series Malgudi Days (and more recently also seen in another TV series Lapataganj ) doesn’t smoothen the sketchy storytelling.

Suddenly when the director realizes that too much time has been exhausted in conveying too little, the screenplay is conveniently rushed. So the hero gives an incoherent speech on lack of love and compatibility amongst countrymen. You wonder why? Soon after, he confesses his love to the heroine to make way for a traditionally dressed song and dance routine. When things still don’t work, the filmmaker opts for the oldest cinematic clichés. The hero’s sister gets raped. The witness gets killed before reaching court. Hero and villain indulge in dishoom dishoom . Film ends but mediocrity prevails.

Khatta Meetha lacks wit and sarcasm and by no means can be termed as a political satire. Rather it’s a blatant and full-blown melodramatic tale of corruption that one has witnessed in zillion films before. The writing branches into too many subplots from politics, family, romance but seems disjoint rather than appearing multifaceted. The family characterizations of a powerless patriarch (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), scheming siblings and the ridiculed younger son protagonist (Akshay Kumar) are quite reminiscent of Anil Kapoor’s Saaheb (1985).

The Marathi nuances in dialogues seem forced. Arun Kumar’s loose editing often makes you lose the narrative. Sabu Cyril repeats his preset Priyadarshan-pattern art direction . Even the usually dependable V Manikandan’s camerawork is irritatingly inconsistent in the climax fight perhaps because he focuses more on capturing the banian brand for in-film placement . Also Pritam’s music fails to impress this time around.

Akshay Kumar continues his buffoonery which is not much to speak about. Trisha has nothing notable to deliver in her Bollywood debut. None of the countless character artists are worth a mention.

In the last scene of the film, Akshay Kumar casually comments, “ mujhe kuch waqt ke liye shanti chahiye ” (I need peace for sometime). He pretty much resonates the sentiments of audiences who have been seeing him repeat the same loud and caricatured characters in the name of comedy. Khatta Meetha ends up leaving a bad taste in your mouth.

Udaan Movie Review 2010 Gallery

Udaan movie :

Using a pacing that stays reflective and internalized, Udaan starts in a hill-town boarding school. Four playful adolescent students sneak out late evening to watch an adult movie, where their warden sees them. The four are expelled the following day. As they part and bid goodbye, the underlying fear is one of uncertainty. What will happen to these young, spirited rebels? Where will they head in life?

The more sensitive among them, Rohan, who is an aspiring poet, is totally in the dark about what awaits him. He is sent to his father, whom he has not seen in the past eight years, who lives in the dull industrial town of Jamshedpur. On arriving, Rohan learns that he has a forlorn eight-year-old brother with whom he must share a room. His father is a bullish misfit carrying massive grudges against life, which he takes out on the two siblings. At first, the openly resentful Rohan accepts his drab life. But when his right to an education and resolve to be a writer are squashed, he revolts by indulging in sly midnight capers.

The father-son conflict reaches a climax which helps Rohan break free and launch out on his own, showing humanity and courage that is laudable. The casting is brilliant and the actors pitch their roles with conviction. Particularly striking is Rajat Barmecha as the defiant yet dreamy 17- yearold. The child actor Aayan Boradia pulls at heartstrings as the downcast and bereft little son. Udaan in Cannes has made a head start.

Spain Celebrations FIFA Worldcup 2010 Welcome of Spain team

The Spain had did the magic for Fifa football worldcup 2010.... They simply shown their best things in this tournament and of course LUCK was there with them.... 3 Cheers guys!!!

Spain is the Winner of the worldcup football 2010

Its that time of the tournament again (i.e. the end) where we look back and assess what was. With the 2010 World Cup now over it is time for me to name my team of the tournament. I’ll admit I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to World Cup teams of the tournament, I’ve jotted down a best XI on the back of some grotty old receipt or used envelope for every World Cup since about 1998 if I remember rightly, meticulously drawing up a shortlist of players and then combing them down to a final eleven. Plus bench. And second team. Geek indeed. In fact, I might have a little look for my 2006 team later if I can find it.

Anyway, before this descends into a disorganised, wittering inner stream of consciousness, without further ado here is my World Cup 2010 team of the tournament. Though some positions have more candidates than others I’m going for the en vogue formation at this World Cup – a 4-2-3-1:

Octopus Paul Final FIFA Predictions Match 2010 Spain is predicted For FIFA2010 Champion

Octopus Paul Predicts Final FIFA Match Results.....

The two-year-old celebrity octopus, who has accurately picked the outcome of all six of Germany's World Cup matches so far, quickly tipped Spain to beat the Netherlands. It took him only three minutes to make up his mind.

"That was fast -- it looks like a clear-cut victory for Spain," said Tanja Munzig, spokeswoman for Sea Life in Oberhausen. She was surprised by his speed in picking Spain. For some matches it took Paul 70 minutes to decide.

The octopus, considered by some to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates, got the choice of picking food from two different transparent containers lowered into his tank -- one with a Dutch flag on it and one with Spain's flag.

Reaction in Spain was swift, with the country's biggest selling sports daily website Marca.com running the headline: "The octopus Paul makes us champions."

The container Paul opens first is regarded as his pick. On Friday he wasted no time in diving for the container on the right side with the Spanish flag on it.

Two German television networks interrupted their programing for live coverage of the two-year-old celebrity octopus's picks. Networks in Spain, the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe also broadcast Paul's decision live.

Earlier on Friday, Germans heaved a sigh of relief when Paul tipped Germany to beat Uruguay in the World Cup match for third place. There were cheers in offices across Germany after crowds of viewers tuned in to watch Paul live.

Normally he only picks Germany matches. But for the final Sea Life made an exception.

The octopus in Oberhausen turned into a global celebrity for correctly picking the winners of all six of Germany's World Cup matches -- including their two defeats to Serbia and Spain.

On Friday Paul first settled on top of the Germany container but after a few minutes shifted to the Uruguay container. Then after about 15 minutes he went back to Germany container, quickly opened the lid and ate the morsel of food inside.

Not an ordinarily superstitious people, Germans have become believers in Paul's possible psychic powers. The country was shocked and distraught when he picked Spain to beat Germany after tipping German wins over Argentina, England, Ghana and Australia.

Paul's selections have become top news across Germany and around the world. Some commentators even wondered aloud whether his improbable winning streak might have begun to influence some of the more superstitious players.

But after Paul accurately picked Spain to beat Germany in the semi-final, some Germans called for a public roasting of the oracle octopus. Newspapers and websites were filled with suggestions on how to cook and eat him.

Officials at Sea Life in Oberhausen have installed extra security to protect their octopus.

"Paul is in safe hands with us," said Munzig.

Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was quoted in Spanish media reports saying -- in jest -- he was concerned about Paul's safety.

"I am concerned for the octopus...I am thinking of sending him a protective team," Zapatero said.

Spain's Environment and Fisheries Minister Elena Espinosa also said: "On Monday I shall be at the European Council of Ministers and I shall be asking for a (fishing) ban on Paul the octopus so Germans do not eat him."

About Octopus Paul predictions In FIFA 2010

German football predicting octopus Paul has forecast that Spain will win the World Cup on Sunday while he expects his home nation to take third place.

German football predicting octopus Paul has forecast that Spain will win the World Cup on Sunday while he expects his home nation to take third place.

Spain face the Netherlands in the final on Sunday, while Germany will play Uruguay in the 3rd/4th place play-off on Saturday.

Paul, who was born in England in 2008, has thus far only predicted matches involving Germany but he has been induced to select a team for the final by his keepers at the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen.

He has picked the correct team in every match involving Germany so far in this World Cup, including their defeat to Serbia in the Group Stages.

He also predicted that they would lose to Spain in the semi-final.

That prediction prompted angry Germans to make death threats against him and he has since been offered protection by several Spanish politicians including Prime Minister Jose Zapatero.

Paul's method involves selecting food from one of two containers with the flag of the nations involved draped within them. His prediction record to date is 10 correct selections and two - both in Euro 2008 - incorrect.

Octopus Paul Predators FIFA Footaball worldcup Fever 2010

He has eight legs but has never kicked a ball.That,however,hasnt stopped octopus Paul from becoming the worlds finest football forecaster.With 100% correct predictions six out of six on the outcome of games in the 2010 World Cup,the four-year-old tentacled tipster is every bookmakers envy too.Everybody wants to know whom he will select as world champion.

He is a global talking point.Google him and you get about 2,630,000 results.Paul the octopus is currently among the top 10 trends on Twitter.And he is big enough to get death threats.Embittered by Argentinas loss to Germany an outcome predicted by Paul Argentine chef Nicolas Bedorrou wants to beat him to death in order to keep the meat tender and then put it in boiling water. Once a darling in Deutschland,most Germans now envision him fried in garlic butter after he predicted that the team would lose to Spain.Crowds are singing anti-octopus songs.

The internet too is overflowing with comments,especially now that Paul is to predict the final result the first time hell prophesy about a match not featuring Germany.He should apply for express immigration to whichever country he picks as winner,says a Facebook entry.

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I Hate Love Stories (2010) Starring Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Movie Review:

I HATE LUV STORYS first review -->

The first thing that attracts you to I Hate Luv Storys is its title. Let's face it, we adore love stories... at least I do. We idolise the characters decades after the movies have come and gone. The songs that come on our lips instantly while playing a game of antakshri are romantic songs as well. In fact, the biggest moneyspinners, let's face it, have been love stories, right? So how can we 'hate' a love story?

Buzz up!

No matter how mushy or cheesy they are, we find love stories irresistible because of the tremendous rush we experience at the end. Some of us are big suckers for love sagas, aren't we? That's precisely the reason why this title (I Hate Luv Storys) nagged me no end every time I watched the promo of this film.

Helmed by first-timer Punit Malhotra, I Hate Luv Storys is aypical candyfloss romance with a story that's not jaw-droppingly different, let me forewarn you. But if you're young at heart or a diehard and hopeless romantic, you'd lap up I Hate Luv Storys like a kid laps up his fav candy.

Now to the vital question: If I Hate Luv Storys rests on a thin plot, what is it that drives the film for the next two hours? My answer to that is, four factors: The fresh pairing and chemistry between the lead cast, tremendous youth appeal, terrific music and magical moments that make a love story work.

Final word? The makers have never claimed that I Hate Luv Storys will change the face of Hindi cinema. Nor did they ever claim that I Hate Luv Storys will change the mindset of the viewer towards romantic films. So let's sit back and enjoy the fun ride. This one's by the youth, for the youth. It's this age-group that would come out smiling, cheering and rooting for this prem kahani.

'I hate love stories' is the maxim Jay (Imran Khan) lives by. But as an assistant director to Veer (Samir Soni), the most famous romantic film-maker of Indian film industry, Jay has little option but to live with larger than life, glossy, cinematic love on an everyday basis. Things only get worse when he is made to work under the new production designer on the film, Simran (Sonam Kapoor), with whom he shares the strangest first encounter.

Simran loves love stories, so much so that even her life has begun to resemble one. With her ideal job and the perfect boyfriend Raj (Samir Dattani), she lives a blissful, dreamy life. One that is rudely interrupted by Jay's cynicism.

Writer-director Punit Malhotra wins Round 1 by casting the right actors in the roles of Jay and Simran. In fact, it wouldn't be erroneous to state that the casting is the trump card of this film. But what Punit ought to know by now is that every story ought to have a strong grip to keep your attention arrested for the next two hours. In this case, the film rests on a waferthin plot, with not much movement in the story in the first hour. In fact, the story barely moves in the first part.

Yes, post-interval, the story does gather momentum and though you're well aware of the journey and what the culmination will be like, you don't mind the ride because you can't take your eyes off Imran and Sonam. Also, a love story works if one pines for the on-screen lovers and in I Hate Luv Storys, you genuinely want the duo to sort things out, which means that you're involved in their lives. Even the finale - it won't be fair on my part to reveal how this movie concludes - may be filmy or cliched, but let's face it, it works.

Let me draw parallels with another love story, also starring Imran Khan. Recall the finale of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, which had Imran riding a horse to reach his sweetheart (Genelia) at the airport. I distinctly recall, a lot of people found the end bizzare and rightly so. Can you imagine anyone galloping to the international airport in Mumbai? But I was truly surprised when I learnt that the youth were whistling and clapping all through. The finale is different here (no horses, please) and you exit the auditorium with a smile on your face.

Director Punit Malhotra is heavily inspired by Mills & Boon novels and several Bollywood films... love stories all. But like I pointed out earlier, Punit needs to polish his writing skills, although the director in him bails the writer out and takes the film to a different level. The sequences between Imran and Sonam are well penned, but the ones between Sonam and her parents or Sonam and Samir Dattani are half-baked. Directorially, Punit shows super-confidence in moulding the two actors in their respective parts, so much so that you get sucked into Jay and Simran's world after a while.

Director: Punit Malhotra

Cast: Imran Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Sameer Dattani, Sameer Soni, Bruna Abdulla, Ketaki Dave, Anju Mahendroo

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I HATE LUV STORYS Synopsis -->

I hate luv storys (I Hate Love Stories) movie is the maxim Jay lives by. But as an assistant director to Veer, the most famous romantic filmmaker of Indian Film Industry, Jay has little option but to live with larger than life, glossy, cinematic love on an everyday basis. Things only get worse when he is made to work under the new production designer on the film… Simran, with whom he shares the strangest first encounter!

Simran loves luv storys; So much so that even her life has begun to resemble one. With her ideal job and the perfect boyfriend, Raj, she lives a blissful, dreamy life; One that is rudely interrupted by Jay's cynicism.

The turmoil's of Jay and Simran's life, is ironically interweaved with the Luv Story that they are working on…. But will Jay and Simran ever find their own Luv Story.