Love Aaj Kal (2020 film)

Love Aaj Kal 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Imtiaz Ali
Written by	Imtiaz Ali
Produced by	Dinesh Vijan Imtiaz Ali
Starring	Kartik Aaryan Sara Ali Khan Randeep Hooda Arushi Sharma
Cinematography	Amit Roy
Edited by	Aarti Bajaj
Music by	Score: Ishaan Chhabra Songs: Pritam
Production companies	Maddock Films Window Seat Films Reliance Entertainment
Distributed by	JioCinema Reliance Entertainment Pen India Limited Jio Studios
Release date	14 February 2020 (2020-02-14)
Running time	141 minutes[1]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹580 million (US$8.1 million)[2]
Box office	₹526 million (US$7.4 million)[3]

Love Aaj Kal 2 (transl. Love nowadays 2) is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Imtiaz Ali and starring Kartik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan. Principal photography began in the first half of March 2019 and ended in July 2019.^[4][5] It was released in India on Valentine's Day 2020.^[6] It was the spiritual successor to the 2009 film of the same name, also directed by Imtiaz Ali.^[7]

Plot[]

Zoe and Veer meet at a bar. The two leave and decide to spend the night together at Veer's home, but Veer stops Zoe from continuing their activities. He tells her that the time is not right. Zoe leaves infuriated. Veer keeps following Zoe, who finally confronts him and asks him not to follow her. There is a flashback scene where Leena and Raghuvendra "Raghu" Singh have the same conversation back in Udaipur's 1990s. Back to the present day, Veer drops her for an interview at the office of the Mehta Group, and they slowly begin their relationship. Raghu is an ex-medical student who ran away from Udaipur and now owns several restaurants in Delhi, including the café at which Zoe hangs out very often. Raghu, who is good friends with Zoe, tells her the story of his childhood sweetheart, Leena, implying that he is a grown-up Veer. He tells her that he used to behave with Leena just as Veer acts with Zoe, recites his childhood memories with Leena to Zoe, and tells her how he asked Leena for a dance together.

In the flashback, it is seen that Raghu and Leena used to meet each other secretly and how Raghu left everything for Leena and moved for her to Delhi, discontinuing his studies to be with Leena. Later, Zoe walks in on Raghu and a woman, assuming she is Leena but realizes it's not the case. Raghu now reveals that he left Leena for his big town fantasies. Her mother convinces Zoe that she can't possibly have both her love and career together. She goes to meet Veer's parents but leaves crying. Veer relays to Raghu what Zoe did, and Raghu convinced that he influenced Zoe towards behaving this way, responds by getting her the job.

Some days later, Zoe sees Veer with another girl. Heartbroken, she hangs out with multiple people but doesn't happen to like any of them. She goes to a bar with a guy and gets drunk, but he refuses to drop her at her home. Veer picks her and drops her at her house. He says that he can't enter a relationship of compromises with Zoe and breaks up with her. The next day he informs her about a new job in the Himalayas and is leaving for two years, explaining that he has as much right to be focused on his career as does she, and bids her goodbye. Zoe gets a proposal from the Mehta family to marry Rishabh, but she refuses. When Zoe meets Raghu, he tells her that he met Leena one last time, when he realized he lost the person he was before with Leena and finds that she is pregnant. He leaves from there, gets into a cab, and goes to the airport. He adds that he still misses Leena but is helpless now. He starts crying, and Zoe comforts him. Raghu tells her that she shouldn't make the same mistake he made. Zoe leaves for the Himalayas to reunite with Veer. She sees Veer sleeping outside. She goes and slaps him. She says that she won't balance between love & work ever, but still, she wanted to be with him. Veer asks whether she will leap with him, to which she agrees, and they reunite and play ringa ringa roses.

Cast[]

• Kartik Aaryan as Veer Taneja / Raghvendra "Raghu" Singh alias Raj (double role) ^[8]
• Sara Ali Khan Pataudi as Zoe Chauhan
• Randeep Hooda as Raj, in reality an adult Raghvendra "Raghu" Singh^[9]
• as Leena Gupta
• Siddharth Shaw as Rathore
• Simone Singh as Zoe's mother
• Siddharth Kak as Mr. Harshwardhan Mehta
• Pranati Rai Prakash as office girl
• Kavita Ghai as Veer's mother
• Shataf Figar as Veer's father
• Vedika Haralalka as Zoe's friend
• Monika Panwar as Sweetu

Production[]

On 17 January 2019, it was reported that Ali was considering his next venture with Ali and Aaryan, a romantic film.^[10] On 1 March 2019, it was confirmed that the pair has been teamed up in directorial venture of Ali and the filming is starting in Delhi.^[11]

The principal photography of the film began in the second week of March 2019, with Aaryan shared a picture of Ali and him from sets. Ali also shared the picture on her social media account.^[6][12] The first schedule of the film was wrapped on 25 March 2019. To inform about the conclusion of the schedule, Ali posted a video on her Instagram account to celebrate.^[13] The 20-day second schedule of the film began on 10 April in Udaipur.^[14] Filming was completed on 1 July 2019, after the final 66 days of shooting in Himachal Pradesh.^[15]

Release[]

The film was released in India on 14 February 2020.^[6] The film was made available for streaming on Netflix and JioCinema on 28 April 2020.^[16].Love Aaj Kal's television premiere was occurred on Star Plus.

Soundtrack[]

The film's songs are composed by Pritam, with lyrics written by Irshad Kamil. The film score was composed by Ishaan Chhabra. The film variant of the reprise version of "Shayad" is sung by Jubin Nautiyal, released April 2021.

Critical response[]

The film received mixed reviews from critics and audiences. Ronak Kotecha of the Times of India rated the film 3/5, stating that "the flashback story is interrupted way too many times to accommodate the film's non-linear narrative."^[18] Baradwaj Rangan of Film Companion wrote "Despite its many imperfections, if there's one thing that gladdened me about LAK-2020, it's that IA hasn't lost his ability to write those great scenes we want (and expect) from him."^[19] Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3/5 stars. Indian Express rated the film 1.5/5 stars. Pinkvilla rated the film 2.5/5 stars and called it soggy love saga. Koimoi gave it 3.5/5 stars.The film was compared to Jab We Met, because these were the movies that were made by same director. And both film were having real life couples in the movie.

Box office[]

Love Aaj Kal earned ₹12 crore (US$1.7 million) nett at the domestic box office on its opening day. On the second day, the film collected ₹7 crore (US$980,000). On the third day, the film collected ₹7 crore (US$980,000), taking its total opening weekend collection to ₹26 crore (US$3.6 million) nett.^[3]

As of 13 March 2020, with a gross of ₹41.65 crore (US$5.8 million) in India and ₹10.98 crore (US$1.5 million) in overseas, the film has a worldwide gross collection of ₹52.63 crore (US$7.4 million).^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Love Aaj Kal at IMDb