'Love Story 2050' is the debut movie of Harman Baweja, son of well-known director Harry Baweja. This Bollywood kid is starring opposite none other than his real life love Priyanka Chopra. Significantly, its director Harry has taken all pains to launch his dear son's movie with the best music by veteran Anu Malik and the lyrics penned by witty Javed Akhtar. Consequently, Anu's music to Javed's lyrics is no less than a big extravaganza for the Bollywood audience, as the latter would find it easier, peppier and funkier.
In spite of all this, the director has miserably failed in peeping into the future, the USP of 'Love Story 2050'. The museum scene depicting a dinosaur in the background falls short of the director's imagination in 2050. Well, do you share the director's belief that in 2050, names and dresses of the people will completely change as shown in the movie like Harman then dancing with a hundred chains hanging from his clothes.
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According to the movie's story, Karan played by Harman Baweja, a rich man in Sydney, talks to the sky regretting about his dad's lack of affection for his demised mother. So, he takes his dad's favorite car out for a fast spin and destroys it. Karan then spots a girl named Sanaa (Priyanka Chopra) playing bonding with a butterfly. He follows her around, even pops up on a roller coaster until she agrees to go out with him. Next day, Karan follows her home. Thus, they fall in love!
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The lovebirds separate and then reunite with the help of the butterfly. The girl is boring type-mostly busy in writing diary. Incidentally, Dr Yatinder Khanna (Boman Irani) Karan's scientist uncle is found working on a time machine. This very machine transports them into 2050 where Priyanka turns Zayesha, a pop singer who's an antithesis of Sanaa.
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Once in love, Saana stops writing songs, turns her bedroom pink and talks non-stop to her robot bear Boo. At the same time, Karan and Dr Khanna come across a lady robot Cutie, who keeps feeding them "chow chow" and insists on calling him `sexy'! Another flow in the movie is that the director Harry Baweja lengthens the film reel and adds an evil Dr Hoshi played by Bollywood's baddie Gulshan Grover called devil's mind (shaitani dimaag). Gulshan follows Dr Khanna for the latter's time machine.
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One wonders if it would be just to call it a love story. Yes, Priyanka's beauty, dress, make-up and excellent performance do lend support to the title. 'Love Story 2050' isn't an original story inasmuch as it reminds one of too many films made in the near past. Now, let's analyze the movie's technical aspects. Though the director succeeds in providing a sort of fun through its visual effects, he miserably fails in impressing the audience.
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For example, he takes us to Mumbai of 2050 when the town would turn very tall because of its high rise buildings built with a lot of steel coupled with unimaginative and rather dreamy things like offering a trip to the moon, a life-like video game, cars floating in the sky and robot assistants besides providing a life full of super luxuries. The audience wonders if the city's roads would be smooth enough to travel and free from the floodwater caused by usual torrential rains. Harman's dialogue delivery isn't good either. The cinematography by Kiran Deohans and Vijay Arora and also art direction by Vanita Kumar are superb, though.
On the whole, 'Love Story 2050' fails to compete with 'Jaane Tu Jaane Naa' despite the former's visual effects. We wonder if Priyanka Chopra would be able to shoulder the movie on her own weighty performance.
