Monday, July 14, 2008

Love Story 2050: A survivor's tale

Yes, I am a survivor. Now I always knew I was tough, I have survived movies like 'Welcome' (can you believe that?), but only after watching 'Love Story 2050' I realized in boodhi haddiyo me kitni jaan hai...

So this was supposed to be 'A star is born' movie. But the opening sequence makes it clear, wohi purana item, busy baap who loves his car more than his son. Now the director knew that janata does not like such scenes anymore, so he tries to finish it quickly and ends up with totally inconsistent dialogs and stuff.

So here is our hero who is also the leader of his group (of course), so he goes on a vacation (isn't that inconsistent? these are a survivors bruises buddy). And he meets the heroine and makes her fall in less time than it takes to make a sandwich. But kismat strikes and before he could do iqarar, the heroine returns home. And our hero does not know where she went. So he goes to the railway station. Now a titali (butterfly), who minds her own business also happens to visit the station. And minding her own business she sits on a board, but guess what, the board has the name of the gaon where our heroine went. Now if you don't like this explanation, here is the bollywood version, the titali was a sandes from god. Choose one (or both..).

So our hero goes and does iqarar, but where does he stay? Of course there is this scientist uncle modeled after Einstein and who believes in astrology (I mean, what do you have against Science?). So he retired from NASA and built a space machine, I mean Time machine. But one little piece is missing (but thanks to our heroine who accidentally rubs out part of an equation and scribbles some garbage in the place which turns out to be missing link) HAHAHAHAHA...

But kismat strikes again and our heroine gets run over by a bus. So you might guess that the hero goes in the past and saves her. No sir! Thanks to complex space time warps, superstrings chaos and strange quarks, our heroine ends up in 2050 (how? the poor audience are too dumb to understand). So our hero goes to the future. And the future is full of Ads, I tell ya. Robots display Sun Microsystems logo and LUX has big neon sign on top of a skyscraper. And our hero is such a stud that even robots fall for him (real AI, hmm).

But a Bollywood flick is never complete without a stupid heroine's mother and an even stupider villain. So for completeness the movie has both. They have nothing to do in particular, so they spend their time with their all-too-well-known hobbies, beti ki shaadi and world domination respectively. And our hero both impresses the would be saasu-ma and gives the villain kutte ki maut and also returns to 2008 with the heroine. Happys endings.

Hey, but the audience did not end up happy. (Or did they? the movie ends is reason enough)..


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