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  Review by H ★★★★ 9

  An examination of failed generations and autonomy of today's youth but it is only interesting because it comes from Imtiaz; who in my opinion had been making fairy-tales with the concept of eternal love. We've seen it in Rockstar and Highway as Jordan clings to his afterlife fantasy and Veera stays with a never-ending yearning for Mahabir. Or in Tamasha where the story is presented as universal much like the previous Love Aaj Kal and even more stories as inspirations for our leads, seen in Jab We Met (in Aditya's mother) and Rockstar (as Hawaa-Hawaa). Not to forget, just how Perfect the relationship is. These things are almost necessary for an Imtiaz Ali film where the movie ends with “...…

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  Review by irmavep ★★★

  This should have been about Randeep's character, and I'm not just saying that because I love him or because he's the most compelling actor in this cast by miles. The movie mostly focuses on how the stories Zoe hears (whether from her mom or the hot owner of her coworking space or the world in general) make it difficult for her to know what she wants, but weirdly the movie doesn't give her much interiority, she's all quixotic reactivity ungrounded in any real sense of her as a person. Veer keeps saying he wants to know all of her, the hidden Zoe, but the movie never gives us any sense of who that is, relying on a generalized brashness punctuated…

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  Review by sydney 3

  this is exactly the kind of movie i usually love, that i want to love, a beautiful looking mess of melodramatic moments and interactions. but i just couldn't buy it, even after spending over two hours with these characters i didn't feel like i knew them or understood any of their motivations at all. anything compelling was never fully explored (the idea of an older generation forcing their own bad experiences and shortcomings onto the young, the ways technology separates us and makes it easier to connect but more difficult to form deep meaningful bonds, the pressures of having both a career and a family, the societal expectations and hypocrisies regarding sex and dating, personal insecurities that lead to hurting…

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★½

  I don’t remember much of anything from the original, so I really have no idea how it’s different or why Imtiaz Ali felt he needed to remake it. It’s not as audacious as Highway or Tamasha, for better and worse. I suspect Ali is one of the few directors left out there in the world who actually believes in the romance genre.

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  Review by Nakul ½ 2

  LOVE AAJ KAL is the worst movie I've seen in a long time. I'm dumbfounded how far Imtiaz Ali has fallen. The writing is so atrociously tacky and the performances are unintentionally funny. I thought it couldn’t be done but Ali has made a film even worse than Jab Harry Met Sejal.

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  Review by Arjun Rajput ★★★★½ 4

  Imtiaz Ali's most ugly, unlikable characters come together for a really nauseating "love story" that is really testing for the general audiences to follow for 2 and a half hours.
  There's literally no character here that you can like or root for. And that is probably the beauty of it.
  A film where the sanest and best acted character(s) is that of Kartik Aryan. It is weird and disgusting and ghastly and naked and standing right in front of you that way and it is upto you if you want to take it or leave it.
  I LOVED it!
  P.S. With her acting Sara Ali Khan sucks ass in this film and with a cast of better actors, this would've been more accessible and hence, a masterpiece.

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  Review by Baradwaj Rangan Unofficial 1

  "Needed a better cast"

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  Review by H ★★★★

  what if we were too scared of committing to a relationship in our romantic hellscape of a world created by the previous generation but we tried anyway? 😳

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  Review by Shashwat Dwivedi ★★★★

  Hear me out.

  Veer, a young, filmy but completely out of the place man, and Zoe, a total in control(or so she thinks) upper class girl hook-up, Veer things they're under utilising the opportunity and what if she's the one? And slowly, the film moves ahead.

  Imtiaz Ali operates in his world, very, very complex, to an extent that he himself forgets to close so many open doors in the script. But then, this film adresses it with its blurriness itself. What's right? what's wrong? Imtiaz's favourite toy to say what he wants. It's hard to watch this film objectively, at least for me.

  This film will either make you feel too much, or you'll find it especially boring (like…

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  Review by Nafees Ahmed ½ 3

  With every new film, Kartik Aaryan seems to edge out himself as a terrible actor. His hammy performance is evident but what's worse that he is oblivious of it.

  Love Aaj Kal has plain stupid writing for the first hour. It's lazily written, without the care and love that Imtiaz usually is known for. It almost feel like a tired storyteller trying to say the same thing, again and again, but now he has lost the appetite.

  Imtiaz tries to build up the characters for the conflict that is relevant for most millennials. You sense the quarter-life crisis he wants to portray, the indecisive youngster pitched against the planned, career-oriented youth, their chaotic lives, and how miserably they fail, but such incompetent actors hamming their way till the end can't seep life to such half-heartedly written script. Imtiaz, you should take a break.

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  Review by Arjun Rajput ★★★★½ 1

  You can't go in expecting a happy love story from a filmmaker who seems to be over the whole concept of love. What I think Imtiaz was trying to say here is that love might not be the answer you want it to be. Questioning and even mocking the philosophies and ideas of love he presented in his previous films, what he was trying to do here is really fascinating but the actors failed him big time. He should maybe do something on a smaller scale without the commercial pressure and just make the film he wants to make.

  "The minute I heard my first love story,
  I started looking for you..."
  The film starts with this quote and I think that says in so many words what the film is all about.

  P.S. That scene where Leena and Raghu meet for the last time itself deserves a 5/5.

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  Review by Arjun Rajput ★★★★½ 1

  On his birthday, I decided to revisit his recent and probably most hated work so far. Which also happens to be one of my most favorite films from him.
  
  
  “Jo main hoon aur woh jo main hona chahta tha, ye alag alag log hain... jo ek nahi ho paaye. Baat ye nahi hai ke maine Leena ko kho diya, us din maine woh kho diya jo main tha.”

  Imtiaz has always been there in all of his works, but never more omnipresent than in his latest offering. It feels like a very personal work, where you find him in an unlikely retrospective mode, looking back and questioning the romanticizing ideas of love he presented in his happier, successful films.

  Hooda's…