Do any of you guys remember Locket Lover? From Quick Gun Murugan? The one in the red dress that Quick Gun is in louv with? Well even if you don’t, it would seem that the same girl – Anu Menon – has decided to get into direction. And I guess her unfulfilled louv from Quick Gun is spilling all over this supposed Romantic Comeday that spans three cities and crosses one big ass ocean.
Firstly, I was quite stunned and I did tweet about this when I saw the trailers for the first time. The producers are Fox Star Studios??? Why would Fox Star be that bad in picking up a movie? Maybe I was too hasty in judging the book by its cover… ooops… a movie by its trailer. And therefore gave LPNY a decent sincere watch. I mean Fox Star cannot be that wrong no? Actually this time around they almost made it – in terms of being wrong that is.
Nikhil Chopra (Ali Zafar) is probably as good at what he does as a cricketer of the same name who really did not trouble the statisticians. His rich producer father has given up on him but a silly tantrum sees him en route to London to see the world and learn to make movies in the bargain. Maybe he could come back and make a movie or two with his rich producer father’s money eh?
However, when Nikhil does manage to deplane @ London he bumps into the extremely attractive but definitely not TamBram looking Lalitha Krishnan who is a self proclaimed feminist. She has missed her flight to New York where she is en route to study political science. No points for guessing that her flight is the next morning and the chivalrous Nikhil has to avoid his traditional Punjabi Mama’s (Mother’s brother) house and spend the rest of the day with someone he calls Lalithapedia. Guess what? Complete louv happens in the short time that they spend with each other. A promise of meeting on the 15th of December 2005 is made.
What follows is a movie that seems to be inspired in parts by the Ashton Kutcher – Amanda Peet starrer, A lot like love and in other parts by One Day (Anne Hathaway). The result is a hotch potch of romance and really uninspiring screenplay. Ali Zafar is good in parts. But then how much can you expect a man to deliver? Music, Singing, Acting, Lyrics all by Ali Zafar?!?!?! Is the rest of the cast and crew expected to do something at all? I guess not. In a movie that has only 2 actors (everyone else has 30 seconds of screen time), Aditi Rao Hydari is anything but good. Net net, a very average RomCom flick. Watch on TV – Cable TV. 4 on 10.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3356074265/
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