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Love Story 2050:Bad taste is timeless

By: Runa :+: Under: Desi Please
On: ⋅ July 15, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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“Love Story 2050″ proves that some love stories should *never* be immortal. Unfortunately, the idea of the movie is a novel one with lots of potential.

“Love Story 2050″: Desi sci-fi gone bad
img: via Wikipedia

But Hindi movie scriptwriters are like inept hangmen - very poor execution. The incomprehensible plotline begins with the standard boy-meets-girl. Spoilt brat boy is played by Newcomer Harman Baweja - whose resemblance to Hrithik Roshan is remarkable. Since he imitates Hrithik- from hairstyle to dance moves - I’m guessing he knows this! Girl is played by Priyanka Chopra - another ex-Miss India who has made it big in the movies. The 2050 bit begins when Girl dies and for reasons that are never quite clear, boy must travel to Mumbai in 2050 to bring back her reincarnated self. Understood? No ? Join the club. There is never a good reason why a plotline should include both time travel and re-incarnation - one of those would be confusing enough.

Boy’s uncle (played by a frightful gray wig that sounds a lot like Boman Irani) is a scientist who invents a time machine. So Boy goes to Mumbai in the year 2050.

Regarding Mumbai in 2050, there’s good news and bad news :

- The good news is that Mumbai in 2050 looks exactly like the sets of the movie The Fifth Element

-The bad news is that shoulder-pads are back in fashion. Oh and the Round table pizza knight is around , playing the villainous Dr.Hoshi.

Assorted other characters include the girl’s bratty younger siblings and Archana Puran Singh wasted as the girl’s shrieking momma . Sad especially when one remembers that this is the same Archana Puran Singh who set a million hearts on fire in “Jalwa” . Also- one must remember this is supposed to be a sci-fi movie - robot sidekicks are de rigeur. Harman Baweja has one called QT ( who seems to have stepped out of the Bicentennial man ) who flirts with him in a vaguely disturbing way and re-incarnated Priyanka has a very creepy teddy bear called Boo ( who seems to have stepped out of AI)

As if the bad acting and barely passable CGI are not bad enough, adding to the overall mess is the horrendous dialog. I present two choice samples ( translated for the benefit of the Hindi-challenged)

-” Who is the girl who has implanted the virus of her name in the hard disk of your heart?”

- “I love hotdogs! If this hotdog were a bitch, I would marry it” ( This one qualifies as the worst pickup line ever in the annals of cinema anywhere)

Honestly, just when I think that Hindi cinema cannot get worse, it surprises me with new levels of crassness.The music, costumes, acting all pretty much suck in this movie.

The only bright spot: I saw it with my son and both of us were laughing hysterically at how awful it was. File this one under its so bad, its almost good!

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