Love Story 2050 – Dud chala dude banne?
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Tanul Thakur
(Dhanbad, India)
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Love Story 2050 – Dud chala dude banne?
One upon a time there was a boy. He used to watch a lot of Hrithik Roshan movies. And he had a dad who was a director. And the boy wanted to be an actor. And he wanted to be Hrithik. So, one night when he was watching Koi Mil Gaya for the 537th time, he thought he had enough of it. He went up to his dad and said ,” Papa Papa, Mujhe hero banna hai.” It was very late in the night and his dad was feeling very sleepy watching I, Robot. He was too jaded to reply. But his son repeated, “Papa Papa, Mujhe hero banna hai!” Papa dear was really sleepy but even then he asked ,” Accha Beta! Kya kya chahiye tumhein movie me?” Son dearest replied ,”Papa Papa, movie main na main car chalana chahta hun, bike chalana chahta hun, bhaagna chahta hun aur dance karna chahta hun,” and then he added something which was going to change the fate of Bollywood. For ever. “Sab Hrithik Roshan ki tarah.” Papa replied ,”Theek hai beta! Main script likhta hun. Kal breakfast pe baat karte hain.”
And from here began one of the greatest movie of all times – Love Story 2050. Harry Baweja must have written this film in his sleep, otherwise there is no way else can one even think of directing( and also producing. Admire his guts man! Take a bow Mr. Baweja.) a waste of 55 crores. A movie which has nothing to give rather than the cliched dialogues, bored to death romantic scenes, cliched expressions. The only good thing as people have been talking about is the special effects. That is true. Although the setting of 2050 Mumbai is a bit too futuristic for comfort. But still, that is one think you’ve to laud the movie makers for. Otherwise, there is nothing in this movie that stands out. The songs are outright bad, except ‘Milo na Milo’ which has been picturised equally well. It is the only 5 minutes where Harman is tolerable. Otherwise, he is a bad copy of Hrithik Roshan. I mean, he walks like him, talks like him, stands like him, sits like him, stares like him, has got his sideburns like him. There is only one difference though, if you cared to notice. He cannot act like Hrithik. Not in 2008 at least. May be in next 42 years, who knows? Or is that the hidden meaning behind the title? I mean the guy has tried aping Hrithik Roshan to such abominable levels that one might even start wondering; does he even try to shit like Hrithik?( Who knows he might have planted a hidden web cam in his bathroom just to learn some tricks of this trade too from his ‘mentor’?). Harman is wooden. That’s all I have to say.
And Priyanka Chopra? She might have been terribly-IN-love or hopelessly-OUT-of mind to accept such a movie and walk through a dead role with a dead pan expression. Not one single scene stands out, there is no magic on screen. The movie suffers from a huge hangover of Koi Mil Gaya/Krissh and Hrithik, so much so that you wish Rakesh roshan would sneak in some of the scene here and there. Everyone else is ineffective including the very own Boman Irani (as the scientist who I don’t know why is in an Einstein like get up). Archana Puran Singh plays the archaic ‘Yash Raj produced affable Punjabi mother’. There is absolutely no flow in the movie, one scene jumps off to another as if monkey hopping from one tree to another. The typical hero-heroine meeting up again is so irritating and straight out of some 1980’s bored to death formulaic movie. Hero wants to search his ‘love’ in the big town. He searches her for 17 seconds and the moment later ‘Lo and Behold’ she is right up there wetting herself to glory waiting for her ‘love’
I can highlight only this much on the movie because I left the theatre after 2 hours 15 minutes. The movie threatened to be 3 hours 20 minutes long. I wonder what they would have shown in the next 1 hour 5 minute? Or, may be I know. The movie was as cliched as that. So Mr. Harry Baweja, you are no Rakesh Roshan and you are son is no Hrithik Roshan either. Had you donated this 55 crores of yours to the benefit of mankind, your name would have been right up there with Mother Teresa. So, the next time you decide to go behind the camera, think about how mankind could be benefited. Best of Luck!
And yeah, coming to luck, Harman keeps saying this line in the movie, ‘ I don’t need luck , I have love.’ Well Harman! you neither need love, you neither need love, you need an audience for your movie to tick which looks like a remote possibility. I suggest you rewatch Koi Mil Gaya for the 538th time and improve on your acting.
Tags: Back To The Future, Harmaan, Koi Mil Gaya, Krrish, Priyanka Chopra
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Funny piece! I laughed out loud at the dialogue between father and beta… Anyway, did not – of course – make me feel like I wanted to see the film any more than before… Gives Bollywood a bad name!
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When did Hrithik Roshan suddenly become the Al Pacino of bollywood. I didn’t know he’s suddenly become this great actor. All these reviews keep saying Harman can’t act but can Hrithik?
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i feel this movie is getting way more due than it deserves … lets not waste time on mediocrity .. read Harry Baweja’s fimlography..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Baweja
what did you expect?
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…”Papa Papa, Mujhe hero banna hai.” It was very late in the night and his dad was feeling very sleepy watching I, Robot…
That’s seriously how I pictured it too, only instead of I, Robot I though Baweja Sr would’ve been watching The 5th Element…
Colossol waste… I wonder what Ashutosh Gowarikar saw in Harman that he signed him and Priyanka for his next film “What’s Your Raashi”… does anyone think Gowarikar can somehow mould Harman into an actor? Or was it just that Hritik wasn’t available…
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This is the beauty of the entire situation you see.. Here we are discussing the film…. Nitpicking it, trying to make fun of it, understand it..
And there there’s Times of India, trying to figure out what the poor collection of the film would do to the Priyanka Chopra-Harmaan Baweja Relationship?
The quality can wait, but what about those lovebirds? How wud they cope up with the entire fiasco? If it wasn’t for “Times of India” I guess it would have been really difficult for our “stars” to take their mind away from the work that they are doing..
And I won’t be one bit surprised if Subhash.K.Jha thinks of “Love Story 2050″ as India’s answer to 2001:A Space Odyssey. In fact Mr. Jha might even believe that 2001 was a pretty cold film, devoid of love but Harry Baweja goes one step ahead..
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have u seen Harry Baweja’s last “Teesri Aankh”? if u have seen it u must not expect quality in Love stoy 2050
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@ 5 ha ha ha ha!!! man that was funny!!
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I saw the trailer, (he Bhagavaaan)
I don’t dare to see this one
Ha Ha
(Instead, I’ll watch “Shaitani Dracula” one more time)
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Eureka!! Love Story 2050 has convinced me that time travel won’t ever be possible. Else, some intelligent life form from future would have travelled back in time and erased this film. For this amazing insight, Filmfare should institute a ‘best film in sci-fi genre’ award and name it ‘Love Story 2050′ award. This is cinema ahead of its time by about 42 years. So, let’s not judge this by prevailing standards and sensibilities. As a reference point, the other film which was way ahead of its time and suffered similar fate was Haatim Tai (no, not a Marathi movie about a Tai named Haatim but this one – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242509/)
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@badmash – absolutely. given harry baweja’s filmography, to expect anything more than mediocrity was being harsh on harry. about the only decent watch from the baweja trio (including wife) has been karam. even that was very irritating whenever bharat dhabolkar would be on the screen.
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Karam was directed by Sanjay G. Gupta and produced by hary baweja. that’s why it was decent visually.
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sorry, director was Sanjay F. Gupta-the cinematographer
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the karam song lyrics were good, and it was well composed.. the music piece was really cool
TERA HEE KARAM…
tera hee karam..
kehta he nahin…kehtaa heee nahin
pathar mein tu hai samaya
dil insaan mein basaya…
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Cos that song is composed/produced by Pankaj Awasthi and Amit..
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another superb song was “tinka tinka zara zara hai roshni se jaise bhara..”
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@14 and who wrote the lyrics…?
and who wrote the lyrics for Aamir?
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Amit Mishra and Pankaj Awasthi – also wrote the lyrics of Tera Hi Karam. And Amitabh wrote the lyrics of Aamir, I think. Why?
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Thanx HG..
Generally i asked, to increase my general knowledge:)
no actually someone is looking for a good lyricist.. that’s why. thanx
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A piece of crap……..What if the film is bad. This is no way of criticizing a film. Anurag Kashyap is right when he says that some pseudo-intellectuals are now using PFC as a platform for throwing there personal frustration.
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i have not seen “love story 2050″ but still found your review funny. it is not about your writting but the comparison with hirithik. If people compare with Amir khan, Amitabh bachan or even Shahrukh is understandable but why Hirithik? He has after all given a terrefic performance in one film only that is “koi mil gaya” while his other movies are just averahe save by the thunderous box office response. If “Love story 2050″ was a Hit, u would have compared Harman to the moon.
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Not a bad review at all Tanul. But if u intend to become a serious critic,it may be a good idea to sit through an entire movie b4 writing abt it. Although with love story 2050, I cant really blame you. The only good thing that can be said is that love story 2050 is a bad movie and doesnt pretend to be anything else. Rite now, I am watching jaane tu ya jaane na which is a horrible movie masquerading as a hip movie for today’s youth( who are seriosuly misrepresented in Indian cinema,I must add).But thats a different issue I guess.
Good luck.
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@ Skanda, Nishita,
. Thanx a lot.!
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Guess the movie is time pass and the hero did quiet well as per the script, his dance is nice but donno why evry-1 is comparing him with others, see him as Harman u’LL see a new comer trying to stretch his legs into the gr8 Bollywood.
Some movies were hit for some actors as debut but we never saw ‘em again, when some started with flops
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