Harman Baweja finally makes his much-awaited debut in a lavish 50 - 55 crore movie titled Love Story 2050! Directed by Harry Baweja, his father, of Qayamat fame (the Ajay Devgan movie that released in 2003). Since Qayamat, Harry has been busy working on Love Story 2050, his son’s mega debut. Priyanka Chopra is Harman’s co-star in the movie. Expectations are high, mostly due to the high-on-special-effects trailers and good promotion. Does it click?
Love Story 2050 starts off as a simple love story that revolves around two characters Karan (Harman Baweja) and Sana (Priyanka Chopra). Karan is a happy-go-lucky spirited boy who goes off the rules and Sana is a shy and petite young girl who goes by the rules. What happens when opposites meet? They are attracted, love blossoms between the two. All comes to a stand still when Sana dies in a accident!
In search of his love, Karan goes into the future, right into the year 2050 with the help of his scientist uncle Dr Ya (Boman Irani) who has spent more than 15 years of his life inventing the time machine. 2050 is spectacular, flying cars, sky-high multi storey buildings, robots et al. Karan finds Zeisha (Priyanka Chopra), now a superstar, a pop singer.
Will Karan and Sana get back again? Will the future bring them together?
Love Story 2050 Review
Harry Baweja has undoubtedly put in a lot of effort and hard work into Love Story 2050, whether its the costumes, settings, special effects and to a certain extent even robots. But unfortunately, the script is way below average. The story is nonsensical, the love story lacks soul, you dont feel for any single character in the movie. Harry Baweja as a story teller fails big time.
The first half is never ending, but towards the end it gets slightly interesting, you hope for a better second half. Imagining life 42 years from now is exciting, but what unfolds on the screen in the second half is probably equilvalent to a third degree torture. It painfully drags, the special effects although great, outshines the love story, you no more care for any of the characters. The robots and the special effects too starts to get monotonous towards the end. 30 mins into the second half, you desperately await the end for the credits to roll.. Yes, its that bad!
The runtime is 3 hours plus, most of the portions can be chopped off easily. For example the character of the masked villian, who appears in the latter parts of the second half, was absolutely unnecessary. He also seems to be a last minute inspiration of Naseeruddin Shah’s character in Krrish.
Seriously, its very hard to sit through this movie. The packed house for the preview show, was almost half empty, well before the credits rolled!
Dialogues are irritating.. Harman’s favorite dialogue in the movie is ‘I dont need luck, because i have love’ He repeats it so many times that, you feel an urgent need to pull every hair out of your head! Music is average, except for the ‘Milo Na Milo’ track, nothing is even worth a mention.
Performances are no better! Harman Baweja has been compared to Hrithik Roshan, no less! Well, he is good looking, a excellent dancer, has got a good screen presence.. But in the acting department, he has a long long way to go. His dialogue delivery outright sucks! Priyanka Chopra disappoints in a meaty role, with great scope for histrionics. Boman Irani is funny at times. Archana Puran Singh is good.
In short, Love Story 2050 is yet another major disappointment of 2008. A utter waste of Rs 50 crores plus spent on this never ending tale. The opening at the box-office is expected to be good, but the negative word-of-mouth would affect Harman’s debut. The collections should start dropping heavily from Monday. This futuristic tale has absolutely no future!
Avoid!
Rating: 
1 star
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July 4th, 2008 at 3:10 am
Excellent review there….
The trailers pretty much revealed tat it’s a boring tale. But still i waited for some reviews before i completely ruled out watching this film. After reading ur review i dont think i need to give it a second thought. I would rather go for Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na….
Thanks for the review so early….
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July 4th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Wohohoooo..
Cant believe this. I thought it would be a good movie..
I wont be watching it now, as i trust your review.. Thanks for the Love Story 2050 Review :)
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July 4th, 2008 at 6:55 am
guys .. i just watched the movie and came back.. it sucks.. real sucks.. waste of money and time. harman shd been good in soeother movie decut.. not this crap.
pls dont waste your money……….its worth watching jaane tu….
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July 4th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Bukwas film. Full of nonsence. Prixanka should left d bollywoo becouse her acting irrates.
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July 4th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Totally agree with the reviewer of the movie. This movie has got to be arguably one of the most idiotic, moronic pieces of DRIVEL ever
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July 4th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
i was willing so much to watch this movie… was desparetly lookin in for tickets even if they costed me a 1000 rupees extra… bt thnx to indicine.. u saved me.. now i will rather go in for jaane tu ya jaane naa..
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July 4th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
shit! shit! shit!!!!! why did i commit this mistake.. why the fuckin hell did i go to watch this piece of shit… meri kismat mein itna torture kyun tha aaj… thnk god.. i had my ticket for jaane tu ya jaane na.. i am bck after seeing two consecutive shows of both the movies… imran - rocks n harman - i hope u r nt jokin wid me..
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July 4th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
hey… it was expected.. Harman is a fooll….! I only want to know whether it is worse than TASHAN!?
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July 4th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Slightly better than Tashan, atleast Tashan was shorter in duration! This movie is about 3 and a half hours including interval!
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July 5th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Awesomee moviee but jaane tu iss bettaa
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July 5th, 2008 at 1:12 am
i wonder how dese guys makes such an idiotic movie!!!!!!mr baweja plz use ur extra money for sm gud purpose n foget abt makin ur sin oh sorry son a star….*******
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July 5th, 2008 at 1:24 am
I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!! NO, I WANT MY SANITY BACK!!! please don’t make me watch even a promo. yes, you can know my deepest, darkest secrets….aaaarrrrgggghhhhhh. repeat. repeat. i need help.
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July 5th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Guys…plz motivate harmen!…we shd encourage talent and copycats!….H for Hritik and Harmen? and Dance too…but acting nnnna!
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July 5th, 2008 at 2:05 am
the above review says it all.
Whooo hooooooooooo
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July 5th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Ek Dum Bakwas Film
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July 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
pls dont compare harman again with hrithik,his is not even 10% efficient compared to him.movie just sucks,aab bahut hua hrithik ko copy karna chor de mere bhai
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July 5th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
How dare people compare Harman wid Hrithik????
Hrithik is D Hero whereas Harman is D Zero!!
I just hope everyone stops comparing the two!!
Harman can dance like Hrithik!!
I mean though everyone says so its not true………..Hrithik is d ultimate dancer of India!!
So everyone please stop comparing my favorite Hero with the Country’s most Favourite Zero!!!
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July 5th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Harman just a idiot with lots of new sense.. He only want to be hrithik but its not so easy to become hrithik.. He have to try his career in some other sector not in film . Priyanka u r just complete failure in last two years please u also do some serials.. Or do some shows.
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July 5th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
guyz & gals, every word of the review by indicine is true!!just wasted 200 bucks & have to leave the movie halfway.what the review does not say is th movi is Pathetic & irriating.Harman shd start making out a living by acting as Hrithik’s duplicate in Mumbai Chawl Functions & C-grade films.even the robots emote well in d movie than him.wht bout Priyanka?she is d only saving grace of the movie.but what on earth make her accept a movie like this?beau Harmaan may b.recently heard, harmaan is goin to change d spelling of his name.Dude, whatever u do the bottomline is ……….U SUCK.what a waste of 50 Crore which could have made a fortun of lot of people.From day 1 of dis project i was quite sure it wil b dud as for Baweja’s credentials.but still expected a better product.the SFX r gr8.can d compared to hollywood standard.but some of the sets r even straight lift from the SCI flick I ROBOT of Will Smith.Th movie loses all.Harmaan pl concentrate on the altrnative career referred above & save us from any FUTURE torture.
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July 5th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Dude… cheers for the review… i knew from the start that Harman baweja is pathetic… 1stly… i can’t understand whats gone in priyanka chopra’s head that she actually started dating that twat… i must say she’s got a real pathetic choice…
Harman, start working as a spotboy instead… that would be better for the industry… you can be no freaking where close to hrithik roshan for heaven sake… you aren’t even half a star and you are being compared to a super star… hrithik must be embarrassed…
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July 6th, 2008 at 1:39 am
I saw this film First day first show..
its not too bad..But its good.You can definitely watch it..
Harman Rocks completely…He looks very cool and so handsome …in this film..he acted well also..
I think Harman is definitely not to be blamed he indeed has a bright future.. the script writer should be blamed..
But this movie should be blamed…
Aur is site a review likhne wala madarchod hai…
kameena jalta hai harman se… kyu be kutte editor tere pas Harman ke jaisa talent nahi hai kameene jalta kyu hai harami… jaa kar apni maa ko chod…
I would definitely give this move a 3 star…
Graphics are awesome…
Aur haan Hrithik koi patent le kar nahi rakha hai ki sirf wo hi Dance kar sakta hai..samjhe..
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July 6th, 2008 at 4:43 am
“Topic change, topic change, topic change, topic change”
- the most annoying dialogue of the this movie applies perfectly to this review section.
The special effects were one of the good (not the best) in Hindi Movies. Harman dances well.
BUT BUT BUT
The movie is bad, long 3hrs20mins, people were leaving one by one… we were only about 7 people left untill the end.
That little robot of Priyanka was most annoying thing in the movie.
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July 6th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I watched this movie on Friday and sure enough it was a torture!!!
The first half was atleast bearable but the second half gives you a Migrane. Priyanka is her usual self ‘IRRITATING TO THE CORE’ in the second half.
Harman is a big dissapointment. He cannot match Hritik …for his personality just fails to appeal leave alone his acting….
If you guys really must watch it… out of curiosity then please buy a cheap CD and watch it at home when you are bored enough to kill flies!!
Jaane Tu..ya jaane na is a great fresh movie….you just want it to last for hours….Imran Khan is so cute and his acting is great for a new comer…in the genes I guess!! This movie is a sure winner!!
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July 6th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Sisters/brothers,
Don’t be so cruel on Priyanka, probably she did this movie to satisfy her boyfriend, probably she knows that he doesn’t fit in acting or in Bollywood ( and the girl always has to encourage her boy.. am I right). Priyanka is a lovely actress, she’s talented, and if she did one crapy movie, it doesn’t mean that she’s to leave Bollywood.. no.. Aishwariya did many carpy movies, Madhuri did, Juhi did, Preity did, Karishma, Karina, including big actors in Bollywood e.g. Amitab did some very bad movies, so.. it’s not fair to ask her to leave bollywood. And.. she’s not the director to blame her, actors/actresses in fact are just like (robots) the hands of directors move them to the direction they want.
I admire Priyanka and consider her one of best actresses in Bollywood with Katrina and Vidya Balan. They’re the future bollywood actresses.
A word to Priyanka: ( if u read my comments) don’t be frustrated, and continue doing some good movies. I loved your roll in Krrish and hope that u will play a roll with Hritik on Krrish 2. Best of luck.
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July 7th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Talkin for Trinidad n Canada here… that movie was sooooo not good.. i would advise anyone to just AVOID this movie.. yuh wud feel sick to your stomach after the first quarter.. farless to the interval..
save the money n time!..
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July 7th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Guys, why do u keep saying that Harman should go another place, industry is nothing for him, blablablabla..
He dares to do something. He isn’t one of those who sit infront of their computer and write rubbish about debutants.. Like, its so unnecessary!. If one of you people get in the bollywood and make urself a superstar by the first film, then change my name!!
Why the hell do u people say that this film is a torture?! have u guys been under Osama Binladen’s prison or something?!
And yeah, comparing him to Hritik is just .. *BIiiiiiiiiiiP*
He does have SOME similarities with Hritik, but saying that he is a copycat is just rubbish. How can he be at fault if his face and dace is a lil bit similar to Hritik?! Every newcomer wants to impress audience by dancing skill and action, does he become copycat?! Its really irritating,right?!
People didn’t like this film because they are addicted to films that have saas-bahu topics, problems to eternity, friendship that obously will grow into love and so on. If a mature director like Harry Baweja has tried to come with something else, people start saying that its a bacwaas movie. No wonder why Hollywood is still better than Bollywood! WHY? Bcuz Hollywood comes with different movies! They come with billions of sci-fi movies, and they become big hits! but bollywood audience is just something opposite.. They don’t appericiate things that are something different.. They want the same masala movie, with one hero,one heroine. They are enemies, then friendship grow between them. and ofcourse, uske baad love to ayega. Then They get married. Saas beats the bahu and they quarrel. Beech mein ek sad song la do. and then the actor comes across an accident. Again a sad song. Then a miracle happens(ofcourse!) and the hero gets well. and then, a slow motion happy ending. bas! Thats what the typical movies are about..
Im surely goin to watch Love Story 2050. Because I want to watch something else. !
Pardon me if I said some wrong words.!
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July 7th, 2008 at 3:25 am
Shona, hello, I liked your comments ( I have to sing for you now : Hey Shona.. Hey Shona as Saif did for Rani in Tararumpum)
Indincine team wrote a good review for Jaane Tue. and gave it 4 star which it didn’t deserve except one star! A crap one.
And they gave one star for Love Story 2050 which I didn’t see yet, and “probably” it has to be vice versa, maybe it’s a good movie, I don’t beleive in such reviews now ’cause I didn’t want to go and watch Jaane Tue in cinema and I did after reading the above review. And just after 10 minutes of watching it, I could judge the movie that was bad in direction. How Aamir Khan produced this movie?! I don’t know yet!
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Fathiya you need to understand that, reviews can never be universal.
Many have loved Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. If you check the Poll below the review of Jaane Tu, you will find that 68% of the people have given it 5 stars, about 20% have rated it 4 and about 5% have rated it 3 stars. That is about 93% which means of every 10 people who have seen the movie 9 have liked it, the people who have loved it are in the majority. Its also showing in the box-office collections, Jaane Tu has opened to about 80% while Love Story is way below at 25 - 30%. The box office story is coming up, do check it!
Coming to Love Story 2050, it is one of the worst big movies in recent times along with the likes of Tashan and Aag. Almost every critic has rated Love Story below 2 stars!
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I didn’t watch Tashan & Aag, and without reading any reviews, I could judge the movies that they r the worst.
But the trailer for Love Story 2050 isn’t bad, I didn’t watch it yet, as it will be released on Wednesday in our country. My brother is the managing director of Bahrain Cinema co. and I will definetly ask him if the movie worth watching.
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Yes,JAANE TU is a good movie, its fresh and fun, Imraan is good, Genelia is awesome and Ratna/Naseer-too good !
But I do not understand this, why are so many people and especially Critics slaughtering Love Story 2050? Many people are saying harsh things about Love Story even without seeing it. I saw Both “Love Story 2050″ and ‘jaane Tu” on July 4 itself-and I liked both of them. I loved the first half of JAANE TU and Second Half of LOVE STORY-the special effects are awesome, they are never before seen in India. Then why are so many people slaughtering Harman as if its his fault he was even born?? There are so many media people saying such harsh things as if they want Harman and the entire team of Love Story to go commit suicide!
After seeing both the movies, I can safely say that Harman and Imraan are both very different types of actors. Both the movies are very different. And all this hype of battle between Imraan and Harman has been started and fueled by media. Isn’t this industry big enough to hold all types of actors? Then why this whole propaganda of hatred against a movie just because its release date clashed with JAANE TU?
I wonder if LOVE STORY was made in Hollywood with Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie in the lead, people would still be vicious? No matter even if there was no storyline and not an ounce of acting shown by that Permanent-Pouty-Angie and I-Can’t -Act-To-Save-my-Life Tommy - people would go gaga over it. But then they would be spending 800 million $ on that movie and here even though LOVE STORY manages to show Hollywood standard special effects at less than 1/10th of the cost, people are just going crazy with some inexplicable hatred! This does not seem fair. It seems to be some unwritten code among all the Critics and Media People to totally write off a movie and a team, which has dared to do something different, just because it has supposedly “clashed” with an obviously more fun and fresh movie. Give them a chance! Is that so much to ask for?
When an Hollywood film copies another film or remakes it and even gets an Oscar for that (like-THE DEPARTED)- None of these CRITICS raise an eyelid. They don’t say a word when Angelina Proves time and again that she can’t act, yet she is supposedly “the most famous face” in the world. They keep singing praises of “Juno” even though it turns out to be nothing more than a profanity ridden, vulgar and boring depiction of America’s morally downtrodden society-but they have a problem when an Indian filmmaker sets out to do something at par with Hollywood!
In an industry of copycats, the entire team of Love Story 2050 dared to do something DIFFERENT, something NEVER SEEN IN INDIA and their hard word, honesty should be applauded-then why are all the critics giving out hate vibes for Harman? Come on, people, this movie is much much much better than “Jimmy”, “aag”, “tashan”, “woodstock villa” and even “sarkar raj”-please..stop listening to so-called critics!
Oh, and I have to tell u dis-
A French Friend of mine is now working in the special effects team of latest Harry Potter Movie in U.K.-Harry potter 6th Movie (expected to release in summer 2009)
And she met me on chat yesterday night saying dat some people of the Harry Potter cast went out for watching LOVE STORY 2050-it included Daniel Radcliff (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron), and all the actors playing Hagrid, Dumbledore and a few others, along with the technical team.
And you won’t believe it, she actually asked me if I could find out how much these people had spent on special effects in this movie-I told her, something like 70-80 Crore Rupees. And she said, “You Know, We spend that much in 5 minutes of Harry Potter, How did you guys manage to create such stunning effects in this budget? You Indians are seriously Genius!”
And I told her, well, you know, all the critics In India are ripping apart this movie, they hate the effects, they think its amateurish, and its all a copy of various Hollywood movies. And she replied back, “But all your movies are the same-love stories, songs and dances, costumes, then what are they complaining about? We actually thought India must be celebrating that finally you can send a movie to West which is at par with their super hero movie!”
And I did not know what to say, so she just summed it up, “well, Richa, I think this is the age old habit of India which we guys always talk about-u guys are such genius but when an Indian does something out of this world, other Indians only pull that person down, and then look to the west for approval. I wish you could be more co-operative and encouraging of each other-really, that’s the only thing stopping you from conquering the world.”
And I did not know what to say? Should I tell her, the critics are busy in ass-licking Aamir because he very conveniently recently “patched up” with Amitabh and now Big b is promoting his nephew’s film on his blog? Or because Love Story does not have a “Khan” or a “Kapoor’ or a “Bachhan”, thats why its hated by critics? Or because they want to keep whining about the “lack of quality” but at the same time, only want movies like ‘vivah” and serials like “saas bahu” to play and can’t digest anything different being done by some unknown baweja? How do I explain the fact that Jaane Tu is a good movie, but nothing great and Love Story is not a bad movie, still from the very first day, all critics and media is urging people not to watch Love Story as if they are on a mission to push as many people as possible towards theatres playing Jaane tu? Because in India, more than talent –connections and surname and hype matter-what else can be expected of our media which makes “breaking news” out of “Saif’s tattoo” and “Abhiash honeymoon”!!!
Anyway..so I am embarrassed and I think all Indians should be embarrassed about this. I saw both movies and I think both are good, Jaane Tu has strong first half and bad climax, Love Story has a slow first half and Spectacular second half-it has to be seen in a theatre to be enjoyed.- even Harry Potter loves it :) forget the critics, yenjoy it :)
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July 7th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Richa: we shouldn’t be surprised why some people start to criticise a good movie and praise a shitty one.. this happened while releasing Om Shanti Om and Saawariya. I don’t know which one u liked the most but what I’ll tell u in brief - ’cause I already submitted many comments, during releasing the 2 movies - is the following:
I’m a big fan of Shahrukh and watched all his movies. When I went to cinema and started watching OSO I was shocked!! got bored and didn’t like the direction, weak, stupid and thought: why SRK agreed to do such a movie?! As u remember the hype for this movie was great and it became a blockbuster!!
And when I went to watch Saawariya I was amazed with this great direction, loved the movie, everything was excellent specially the music and the songs ( except some scemes. Ranbir’s acting which didn’t affect this ausome pieace of work) , the story based on reality, not a happy ending ( but Indian people didn’t like the ending!!! they don’t accept facts. And then I was shocked again to hear that the movie didn’t do well at the box office!!!
OSO which I considered a bad movie was far better than this stupid “Jaane Tu” that’s my opinion. As u noticed that Indian people - sorry to say this - but my conclusion is based on what I noticed - that when they enter a cinema hall, they just want a funny movie and only to laugh (not in India only even in our country Bahrain as thousands of Indians living among us) and as my brother confirmed that: they don’t care about special effects, cinematography, direction and never notice all these stuff!! they just want to have fun and to be entertained, and any movie includes Paresh Rawal they love and applause for it even if it wasn’t funny. So how can u convince millions of audience in India that this movie is a good one and that one is a worthless?! Every movie got his audiences and it’s a sale.. a product.. if people go for one more than the other it wins.. it’s the fact that we’ve to accept, don’t we?
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
oooops RICHA.. i have a doubt.. are u harman baweja?? :P or his friend/relative??
ur friend from harry potter haha lol hehe
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
i think so fathiya and richa are marketing agents of love story 2050.. so they are promoting it.. hehehe.. pls dont mind its my personal feeling.. bura mat manna yaar its really a shit movie and a third degree torture.. nothing personal..
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July 7th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
@HAHAHA and Suresh-
If I were Harman Baweja, i would have better things to do than sit on the net giving comments to unemployed,uncultured,frustrated youth like many of commentars around here-and,as far as promotion goes-did I not promote “Jaane Tu” in the first line itself-saying that its a very good movie? I think there are some promoters employed by Aamir Khan productions here..Ha Ha Ha :D Bura mat manna, nothing personal :)
Yes, Fathiya, u r right :)
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July 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
@ richa
I watched Lovestory 2050 and the movie sucks and HARMAN sucks more than movie… okay…….. Richa.. peoples like u donno the value of acting,,,… if u wan to see acting go and watch movies malayalam of mohanlal from Kerala or Tom Hanks movies.Instead of writing such a long comments supporting STupid HARMAN go and watch some classic acting of mohanlal and find the value of acting,… HArman might be good looking,dancer butas far as acting is concerned he is simply a SHIT!
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July 8th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Marketing agents?!! hahahaha.. I wish if i was, then I definetly voted for Saawariya this year to win an award in the category of best movie of the year 2007 with Chakde India.
And FYI, I still didn’t see LS2050 therefore I can’t say anything about the movie except my feelings that Harman is not bad and Priyanka ( I saw her acting in many movies) and she’s a very good actress, so why wouldn’t she perform at her best in this big movie and with her boyfriend?!!! I can’t beleive anything I read already only after watching it. And believe it or not.. I’m saying it from now that if I found it a crap, I would come immediately on this website and say so, but if I find it good, I’ll praise it ( I’m not an agent for any marketing institution, I’m just an audience who often watch hindi movies and writes her comments).
And.. what.. if we didn’t like a movie ( I didn’t like Jaane Tue) do I have to write some lies just to satisy u guys?!! Do u want us to lie?! So stupid!!
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July 8th, 2008 at 5:59 am
It 2.45am with us in Bahrain, couldn’t sleep so I visited You Tube website. Entered Love Story2050 and found the whole movie on the site, so I watched some parts of the movie which was available and not from the begging. The movie is big in production, special effects, Harma’s acting is not bad as a debutant, he’s repeating the sentence: I don’t need luck.. I have love makes some sence in the movie, to assure what he believes in ( and ofcourse the director wanted him to repeat the sentence). He looks like Hritikh alot ( so.. we can’t blame him ’cause he’s not wearing a mask on his face or did any plastic surgery to look like him, not his look only, even his voice, similar to Herithik!!),
What I didn’t like while watching the scenes is Baman Irani’s weg. The director spent crores on the movie and could give him a better weg, to look more natural, that’s one negative point in the movie. I don’t want to watch all the parts on the net as I think, and I’m not sure yet, it’s worth watching on a big screen ’cause it’s a different movie and I love new subjects, new special effects, new direction ( obviuosly, the director tried to develop the Indian Cinema and take it to a higher level but unfortunately, Indian people want to remain in their seat for thousand of years, refuse development!!.
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July 8th, 2008 at 11:27 am
@Linjo- Did I ever say anywhere that Harman is a Great Actor? Or did I by chance say anything against Mohanlal? His acting cannot be surpassed. He, Kamal Hassan, Dilip Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Mamoothy-they are pillars of acting! How can Harman even be mentioned in the same sentence as them?? I am sure even Harman would take offence at this!
If anyone would care to read my comment, they would understand I am not supporting Harman, or downgrading Jaane TU..I would give Jaane Tu 3.5 stars and Love Story 2050 3 stars..all because I feel that they made a new attempt,
We are living in an age where one switches on the TV-and some SAAS BAHu shit crops up-or worse, soem “reality show” crops up-which is even worse than Saas Bahu serials,
and in theaters, movies like VIVAAH become super hits, movies like “woodstock villa” are given 2.5 or even 3 stars by soem critics-I am questioning this. Am I not even allowed to do that?
Yes, Harman needs to go a loooooooooooooong way in acting department. His dialogue delivery is bad. He holds himself back in emotional scenes, there are so many things he need to do. I am sure Imraan Khan will win the Best Debut Actor award, coz honestly, his role suited him more and he performed well,I have no problems in accepting this,
But all I am asking is, instead of just swooping down on the team of Love Story (which all critics have been doing from day one), can’t we give them an encouraging nod? For atleast not giving us another of those typical boy-meets-girl, 10 song and dance wedding extravaganza in typical Karan Johar style? Karan Johar’s “Kabhi Alvida na kehna” was made on a bigger budget than LOVE STORY 2050-Honestly, I would say the team of Love story 2050 made much better use of money-This is my whole point-Is this unreasonable??
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July 8th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I’m sure harman baweja is very handsome and dances really well too but he also does one thing.. copy hritik thoughout the performance… I got a feeling as if there was some duplicate of hritik roshan in the movie and I just wondered why Harry could just notr cast Hritik himself for the role. Harman needs to be original.. Y wud we like to watch him when we can watch Hritik.. But I must also say one thing.. I really think he looks slightly better than Hritik.. and since it is his very first movie as an actor.. he has a concession…
Harman has great potential..he looks great and dances very well… he should just be himself.. He would do a lot better.. we also know Hritik for movies like “Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon”.. that doesnt stop him from goin great..Over the time all the actors improve a lot.
Priyanka is her usual self.. looking no differrent(Red hair do not work for her).. she never looks any diferrent in any of her movies… Although I really think she looks good… and she has put on some weight too..
Script as everyone has said is really pathetic.. what girl in the world would read a diary and remember everything of her past life?? veryyyy unrealistic..
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July 8th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
First of all, you guys need to realise that a critic is a normal human being! How can you expect a critic to appeal to each and everyone?
Om Shanti Om we rated 1 / 5. We absolutely hated it. But the majority of the audience from Mumbai and North, loved it! The movie is also the biggest grosser along with Dhoom 2.. ever! I would even pick a Saawariya over a Om Shanti Om anyday. But the response to OSO was amazing. Almost all critics praised it, which was a surprise. I rented the DVD, watched it again, couldnt bear it yet again and switched it off 30 mins into the movie. SRK was terrible, heights of overacting in first half as well as the second.
@ Richa
Let me clear 2 points for you, Budget of Love Story 2050 is 50 crores. The budget of the crappy Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna was at around 40 - 45 crores.
But its not about the budget here, its not about the special effects, its definetely is not about how well they spent those 50 crores. Its the disappointment that with those 50 crores, they could have come up with a much better movie. The story and the direction was the biggest let down.
How much sense did the story make? A butterfly coming to the aid of Harman, in the railway station, to find him the correct station to meet his love? Him going in search of a dead girl into 2050 and getting her back into 2008? and the so many other nonsensical things that happened in the movie.
Anyway, every a utterly senseless story can be made to look convincing by the director. And thats where LS 2050 fails! Harry Baweja has let down his son, with a better director the movie would have been a LOT better. Take for example rakesh Roshan. The script of Krrish, although more sensible than LS 2050, was a mediocre one, yet the director rose above the script and directed the movie well.
@Fathiya
The box office says it all doesnt it? A good movie works.. a bad movie doesnt. It maybe true that Indians love to watch light entertainers, but they also appreciate good classy movies like Jodha Akbar, Chak De India, Taare Zameen Par.
Just because the movie has Paresh Rawal and its a comedy, doesnt mean a movie would work. Dhol, Mere Baap Pehle Aap, One Two Three failures are three prime examples.
Coming to Jaane Tu, it hasnt just worked in India, but worked all around the world in US, UK, Australia, Gulf and wherever the movie has released. It could also be the biggest HIT of 2008 so far.
Love Story on the other hand has failed almost everywhere! India and overseas. And the BO verdict matters the most, nothing else! If you manufacture a product, hype it, sell it to dealers (in this case distributors), but there are no consumers to buy it.. The product is a failure! Critics can thrash a movie, but incase it works at the Boxoffice, the movie is a success!
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July 8th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
@ Linjo
Lets not compare Harman to Mohanlal and others.. Its like comparing a fresher to the CEO of a company, one who has 30 - 35 years experience and skill in the field.
Harman can grow as an actor, he needs to get rid of the fakeness, he needs to stop apeing Hrithik.
Love Story 2050 started in 2004.. The movie has been in the making for over 3 - 4 years now.. and it is anyone’s dream to start his career in a sensational way like Hrithik did.. So he might have been inspired by Hrithik, any newcomer starting his career, would. But unfortunately his inspiration showed on screen big time. He seems to have been inspired by almost everything and thats what went against him.
He needs to forget his debut, take a small break, re think and the most important thing is needs right now is a good director. And Ashutosh Gowariker is just the right director to handle him right now. Hopefully we will get to see the original Harman Baweja soon!!
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July 8th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Indincien Team:
You said ” A good movie work.. a bad movie doesn’t!!” No.. excuse me if I say that’s wrong: Some crappy movies win ’cause of the ads. daily on t.v., people promoting the movie, the hype, the publicity, the critics, Reviewers, everywhere, some movies doesn’t cause the producers don’t spend their money on all this as it’s costing and relay on the audience, so the audience won’t go and buy a ticket to watch a movie he never heard about. Swades for SRK was a good movie, Dil Se for SRK which I consider Shahrukh’s best movie despite some minor scenes which I didn’t like, didn’t win at the box office ( I saw this movie 7 times and still got it on my video tapes) and Shahrukh had a great hope for this movie, he worked very hard on this film and and didn’t work, I think was rated as average. Do u know why? Cause it wasn’t a funny movie, a serious romantic movie and millions of people in this world don’t believe in love and don’t like to watch romantic ones. Does this mean that the movie wasn’t good ?!
If u, as a seller, tell some people: Oh.. this is a very good product, buy it as everyone does these days, they’d believe, even if it’s a shitty one!
I remember Akshay Khanna did a good movie called “Doli Saja Ke Rakhana” it was good for those days, I remember we found it a good movie, but the movie flopped, and as he confirmed: people didn’t go to watch it as they released the movie without any publicity, no one even knew about the release of this movie!! When u place an ad in t.v. even for a worthless stuff, people go and buy it.
Sarka Raj. Do u consider it as a bad movie? Why Sarkar, the original was a super hit, and why the sequal wasn’t?? Both were good movies except in Sarkar Raj, the background music was a bit loud. The movie was excellent but didn’t work. Critics (ruin) any good movies Critics (raise) some shitty ones, and people (believe) what they read or hear. BELIEVE ME.. IF AAMIR KHAN’S TARE ZAMEEN PAR WAS A FLOP, NO ONE WOULD HAVE GONE TO WATCH JAANE TUE. THEY LOVED IT ‘CAUSE AAMIR DID IT, PRODUCED IT, SO THEY JUST BELIEVED IN AAMIR THAT HE DOES EXCELLENT MOVIES. EVEN IF HE DID A CRAPPY ONE, THEY’D SEE IT AS GOOD. A CELEBRITY WINS ALWAYS SPECIALLY THAT HIS LATEST MOVIES WERE SUCCESSFUL.
You (yourself) said that you gave one star to OSO and didn’t like it but it was a blockbuster!!! I think what helped OSO the ads in t.v. Shahrukh himself, Farah Khan as a director (did Meh Ho Na) and the release date which was on Diwali which millions of people want to have fun and they go to cinema on Diwali specially for a comedy movie and watch more than one time.
If the story of LS2050 as u mentioned, Harman’s girl dies in 2008 and he tries to find her in future 2050 by a timemachine, then I would also say it’s a crap, ’cause it has to be vice versa!! If his lover dies in 2008 time should pass, an excellent scientist appears (which is Baman Irani) , Harman grows older, then a time machine has to take him back to past, save his lover from death and the accident happend in the past and take her to the future!!. If the script is as u mentioned, I won’t go and watch it.
One more question: Indicine Team: who watch Indian movies overseas?? In UK, US, Far East, Gulf Arabia?? They’re also Indians, yes.. we from Gulf or any other nationality watch Hindi movies but our no. of audiences can’t be compared with Indians. When I go to cinema 80% or 90% of audiences are Indians.
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July 8th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Further to my comments, let me give u an example about the influence of ads & publicities: In Bahrain we Got more than 10 cinema screens in Seef Mall and in Dana Cinema where they show different movies but not Hindi ( Dana Cinema started showing Hindi movies since 3-4 years only but in Seef only recently. My brother used to show Hindi movies only in Awal Cinema for Indian people to watch. After watching some goods movies e.g. Umrao Jaan for Aishwariya, I asked him the following: Why didn’t u publish any poster of this movie in newspapers, in your small booklets which u distribute for free at the cinema halls and why you never tried to show it in Seef as Bahraini people never go to watch any Hindi movies in Awal Cinema and they never know about any Hindi movies as they don’t have B4U channels or Channel V or read any Indian newspapers to know about Hindi movies? He said: I don’t think it will work for Bahrainis in Seef Mall. And as I found Umra Jaan a very good movie and I was sure that if Indian people didn’t like it, but Bahraini people may ’cause also they didn’t watch the old version. So he did show it in Seef Mall, we invited our families, relatives to watch it. Most of them praised the movie and loved it and said: We’ve never heard about this movie, no postars anywhere, no ads in newspaper, nothing. They told me: If u didn’t tell us about this movie we wouldn’t know or have a single idea about a great Hindi movie.
That’s how the publicity, ads, works!
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July 8th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Fathiya and Richa! I think u guys are one of those who actually are lil bit smarter than anyone else in this ”Drop-in-a-comment forum”. Cause u people think and write. Many people here just come and write sum rubbish and then never come back.
And as u said Fathiya, people went to watch jaane tu only becuz it was produced by amir khan. And after people watched TZM., they think that no film can beat Amir Khan’s film. Thats why they loved Jaane tu. I haven’t seen either jaane tu or lovestory yet. But im surely going to watch lovestory 2050. Bcuz films like jaane tu are made before. I heard in the news that the same script has been used in many other films. But this time it became hit bcuz it had fresh actors. So, what I mean to say is that the script is very old and the film became hit because Imran khan was starring. While Lovestory 2050 had a NEW script with a fresh face. and why do u people repeat all the time that Harman is a copycat? God damn, won’t u people react if I say that Shahid(The man I’ve loved since ages!) copied Shahrukh Khan’s acting and Hritik’s dance? Debutants need ispiration, but I totally disagree if we say that they are copycat.
And Indicine team, I personally don’t feel that the script of Krrish was a far more better than LS 2050. I believe more in a timemachine than a ”SUPER HERO” flying across the street, running faster than a helicopter and so on. Thats something very weird.! While timemachine is something that can appear in this future world. Don’t say tht im crossing my fantasy limit, but im pretty sure about that something like this is surely goin to happen in our world. And thats the time when u people will understant that ”that film had something special in it”.. I think that if this movie was made by Rakesh Roshan and the actor were Hritik instead of Harman, then this film would have been a BIG hit!! because it had a socalled SUPER HERO in it. and ofcourse, the papa Rakesh.. yeye.
This is india. Im glad I don’t live in a country with so much fake and unintelligent media.!
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July 8th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
@richa
This time u r right!
@indicine team
YEah! Its worthless comparing mohanlal and Harman, But what i meant is that it was so far better seeing Iruvar and kireedom (mohanlal)(i ‘ve watched them more than 30 times!) once more rather than this crap!
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July 8th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Shona: Jaane Tue Yaa Jane Na is about a rat & a “Miyow” means cat!! and it’s good for rats and cats to watch it and love it!!
But I don’t beleive in time machine ’cause the past is past, no trace of the past and the future didn’t come yet.. so how can a time machine take us to somewhere which didn’t happen yet?! And how can we go back to the past which has been ended? How much the scientists r clever they can’t go back to the past, it’s over and that’s a fantasy only, some people love fantasis. But Krrish, his pwer has been granted by an alien who become a friend and helps him. And Krrish is far better than Superman or Batman ’cause he doesn’t fly, he doesn’t carry an aircraft on his hands or carry a causeway, etc. He just have the power to jum and run very fast. That’s reasonable. I loved Krrish and saw it 3 times in cinema and I loved Priyanka’s acting in the movie.
Yes.. If LS2050 was directed by Rakesh Roshan then it definetly would have been a super hit. But Rakesh Roshan would’ve done it reasonable. Show the life in 2050 and Heritik is old and still dreaming of his girl, and then his uncle who’s a scientist would help him out, by a time machine to change the fact that his beloved was dead, the time machine take them to the past where car accident happens and he saves his girl and take her back to the future of 2050 and they live happily ever after. A fantasy but reasonable for our imagination. But, as the reviewer said, that the story of LS2050 is that the uncle and Harman want to jump into 2050 to search for harman’s beloved who was dead in 2008 and take her back to the past!!!! Now isn’t that stupid! If it’s true, I wont’ waste my time watching this movie.
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July 8th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
@Indicine Team: Now that you explained it this way, its actually good :) See, this is wat I am talking about. Saying things in a civil way. Thank You :) I have no issues with your views.
Let me update my views-
I have no issues with anyone saying bad thing about LS 2050 AFTER watching it. Its a commercial masala movie, Harry And Harman never showed in the advertisements that they were making some intellectual movie, but from the very first day that the movie released, all the critics have swooped down on the movie as if the makers of LS 2050 promised something in the league of GODFATHER and finally presented a JIMMY! NO! The makers said, they are going to present Mumbai in year 2050 as never before-THEY HAVE DONE IT. They said, the special effects are never seen in India before-THEY DID THAT! But none of the critics pointed this out.
Secondly, my problem is with the fact that within 3 hours of release of both these movies, the reviews were out and by the very next morning, many media people had come up with their “hit” or “flop” tag!Come on, within 12 hours, they came to know which movie is hit and which is flop?? Strange!! Furthermore, stranger is the fact is-Please, see for yourself-Try and accumulate all the REVIEWS OF LS 2050 and see what they say-they all contain almost 75% same language-pointing at same things, attacking harman and attacking him again and again and again and painting a picture as if this is the most despicable person alive-Yes, do this-go ahead! This simply points to a tendency of unprecedented bias.
Last year, Ranbir KAPOOR ruined whole SAAWARIYA with his acting but even before the movie was released, it was sure that this latest KAPOOR would win all debut awards. Compared to him, NEIL NITIN MUKESH performed far well in Johnny Gaddar, but a MUKESH Vs A KAPOOR, HAHA! And today, the same thing is happening-there are some reviewers who did point out harman’s good qualities (like Taran Adarsh), but THEY ARE NOT BEING HIGHLIGHTED! Thats unfair.
There are many people who are saying that Jaane Tu sucks big time, (I AM NOT ONE OF THEM, I YENJOYED IT)-check out rediff messageboards, there are people who are complaining of headache (I don’t know why) But u kno why they are complaining-because the very first day they got to hear from “all critics” that this movie is very good while LS Sucks-there is not a single thing good in LS-AND SO THEY CHOSE Jaane Tu-and now, they are saying-why so much hype, its the same story we saw 1000 times earlier, imraan can’t act, he is toooo sweet….blah blah (I do not agree, but do check out-this is what many people are saying)- THIS IS THE POWER OF MARKETING AND HYPE.
See, JAANE TU is a VERY VERY GOOD MOVIE, Even without hype, it would definitely been a hit. But if you look at the events that happened on 4 July within 3 hours of release of both movies, anyone can see that There was a kind of “pushing” of people away from theatres playing LS 2050 and towards theatre playing Jaane Tu..this helped Jane Tu.. tremendously. (No wonder, Aamir patched up with Amitabh so conveniently, Aamir and Imraan ousted Harman from Dus ka Dum,Amitabh and Amir’s pic on the JAANE TU Premiere,Amitabh promoting this movie on his blog, even Shobha De promoting this on her columns-slowly building up..), People have been bitching about Harman and his movie EVEN WITHOUT SEEING IT. If u don’t like a movie after watching it, fine, go ahead, bitch. But saying something just because “all critics” are saying that, and all “critics’ saying SAME words, as if they all got instructions to say this from somewhere above, thats very interesting.
And its interesting because its PSYCHOLOGY. Even if 10 good things are said about 1 thing-it might not have a big effect, but say just one BAD thing about something and it gets spread like wildfire! And when 10 people say SAME BAD THING-then it spreads like forest fire. and this psychological fact has been used very well here. So many of my friends were surprised when I went to see LS 2050 on 4th July evening, saying that they “had heard” its a bakwaas movie. I asked “why” and they said “oh, everyone is saying this”-everyone,on net, on tv, they were saying the “same” thing, isn’t that strange?
And by 6th july, people have been trying to ask Harman “how does he feel now that his movie is a flop?” Within 2 days, who has decided this? There are people in many smaller cities who have loved his movie. Its as if, there were media people who were waiting forathe right chance to ask a question thah was pre-determined.
the fact is-this team took a big risk, they made a movie in a genre which is not big in india. Then they tried to sober it down so that everyone can relate to it. So they put a love story, they put re-incarnation in it (that is why harman travels to future) yes, its nonsense, total nonsense. But when these crtics can talk about David Dhawan movies in a good vein, why not now? Harman never promised a treat for our brains, the team made a total commercial movie, in a risky way, yes, but atleast they tried. Has any critics given any points for this? Why would anyone want to do anything different in india then, if we ourselves are not supportive of such endeavors?
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July 9th, 2008 at 2:11 am
it was just ok,herman is a confident actor and a very good dancer and he dance well than hrithik roshan,yes he has to improve his acting skills,priyanka was natural.music was ok milo na milo is a good number.
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July 9th, 2008 at 2:53 am
True Fathiya.. I like ur comments!
I watched Lovestory 2050 today.. and yes, im not that excited to tell something about it.. hehe.. it was a lil bit dissapointing, cuz I loved the trailers and the promos of lovestory 2050. But the film.. it was allright. Can’t say that it was the best film I’ve ever seen, cuz it had some boring scenes in it.. but overall, I think it was a great effort!! Harry Baweja made something else, and I really appericiate it!.Like, I had become bored by all those saas-bahu and usual bollywood movies, so I needed something else to watch!. And im happy!.. I LOVED Harman!! He was fantastic,acording to me!. And his dance! Kya kehna,yaar!. His dance is far more better than many other actor’s dance in our industry.! So he is surely going to become a super star!!!!
And as usual, Priyanka again acted very well!. But im very impressed by Harman’s acting. He can prove somethings, like, if he could try to be more original when he was sad or something.. but this is my opinion!.
If I say, watch it, and if u don’t like it.. then u will say that im dumb. =)
So u decide… =)!
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July 9th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Shona: Thank you, what the reviewer mentioned, that Harman searches for his beloved in 2050 and she was dead in 2008, is that true? You didn’t mention in your comments anything about this.
Well.. if I decide to watch it, my quriousity would take my to the theatre to watch it myslef and judge it. I saw today in the trailer a part which I didn’t see before, Harman was talking to Priyanka, tears in his eyes but his acting was very poor in that scene. I can’t blame him ’cause acting is difficult, it’s not an easy job specially for newcomers. Sometimes I imagine myself standing opposite a camera where people around me watching my performance, so.. would I be able to act or perform like these actors do?? I don’t think that I’d be able to say even a scentence.
We should not blame him, but we have to encourage him. He’s a good looking, tall, and got beautiful eyes. I think he’ll improve by the time. So people.. give him a chance and don’t break his heart, just encourage him to do a better work in future. Wish him all the best ( and Priyanka.. I like u but you need to do some difficult rolls, serious ones not only acting in these typical as a beautiful girlfriend).
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