Love Story 2050 Movie Review
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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James Bond: (July 6, 2008 at 1:39 am)
Shom: (July 6, 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.
Hash: (July 6, 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!!
Fathiya: (July 6, 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.
Sangita: (July 7, 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!..
Shona: (July 7, 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.!
Fathiya: (July 7, 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!
Indicine Team: (July 7, 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!
Fathiya: (July 7, 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.
Richa: (July 7, 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 :)
Fathiya: (July 7, 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?
HAHAHAH: (July 7, 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
suresh: (July 7, 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..
Richa: (July 7, 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 :)
linjo: (July 7, 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!
Fathiya: (July 8, 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!!
Fathiya: (July 8, 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!!.
Richa: (July 8, 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??
Princess: (July 8, 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..





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..