Is Love Aaj Kal really a rip off?
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 While the makers of the film may not agree but their film Love Aaj Kal
seems to bear a very strong resemblance to Taiwenese film, Hao De Shi
Guang (Three Times).
We saw In Three Times and here is the plot of the film - The movie
starts in 1911 then moves to 1966 and eventually culminates in 2005.
The story of Three Times, runs in three phases. It features three
chronologically separate stories of love between the two protagonists,
in the first two stories, letters are crucial to the outcome; in the
third, it is cell phone calls, text messages, and a computer file. Over
the years between the tales, as sexual intimacy becomes more likely and
words more free, communication recedes.
Now Imtiaz Ali directed Love Aaj Kal starring Saif Ali Khan, Deepika
Padukone and Florence Brudenell Bruce is all about how love was
perceived back in the old days compared to how it is now. The story
with Saif in the turban romancing Florence is the second part in the
film where love is all about innocence. The third bit has Saif and
Deepika playing non-committal lovers giving into their lust and desires.
But when asked, Imtiaz however denies the resemblance by stating there
are just two stories of portraying love then and now. Still the
surprise package in the film as a source states is the love story of
Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor as the first of the love stories.
Whatever the truth is will be finally out on July 31st.
Sampurn Media
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