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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Ali_Asgar This movie is an atrocious piece of fluff about how upper class Indians from big cities live in USA sponsored by their parents back home. Devoid of plot, acting and sensible dialogues, this movie targets the Indian small town middle class youngsters who'll lap up any piece of mediocrity in the name of 'being different'. The focus was on the minute details of infrastructure and material amenities in America that this movie's target group aspires. You don't have to be discerning to figure out that this was done to cover up the non existent acting skills of the lead pair - Imran and Kareena. However such stuff works since in this country of 1 billion, there are enough people who are easily pleased or at least pretend to be so. The rest of us can watch 'Fox Travel' channel at home and get more satisfaction.

bobbysing EMAET can easily be termed as a foreign dish served with some Indian toppings and masalas, which actually ruin the real taste of the recipe all together. In reality the problem is that at one end our young film- makers are pretty inspired from the western films, their directors and want to try something unique on those similar lines. But on the other, our Indian market, traditions and the concept of love, don't allow them to cross certain boundaries which in turn results in a pretty weak product hanging in between, reaching nowhere. Now let me try to explain what I found deliberate, illogical and unloving in this Love Story.The film starts off with all seen before kind of scenes relating to Imraan's arrogant and classy parents forcing all their wishes on to their child. And the child is now a grown-up architect (of 25+), working in a big foreign company but still so dumb to continue to be the puppet of his ruling parents. Now after he gets fired from his job, Imraan meet this full of life girl Kareena and they spend some good time together in a pub drinking heavily. In their drunken state they even get married unknowingly and become an official couple as per the law. And from here onwards EMAET copies its initial main plot straight from WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS (2008) and the Mexican film RECIEN CAZADO (2009).But in a very amusing way, the first time director Shakun Batra makes an Indian change in the idea and puts some clothes on to the naked people in his script. In both the original films, the couple find themselves naked in a bed together in the morning and scream loudly as they come to know the truth of their shocking marriage. However in EMAET, the couple wakes up in their full clothes on, lying on the same bed and then start screaming. The presentation clearly shows that we still have dualistic minds working behind the projects wherein some film-makers are coming out of the shell with films like "The Dirty Picture" and some still want to make movies as per the old rules.The fact is proved again later in the film, when the couple files for an Annulment in the court (a legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void, different from divorce) and the Judge asks them a question about their Sex life saying , "Did you have Sex together?". To this Imraan replies 'No' and Kareena says "Yes". Justifying her strange reply, she further adds, "No, not with him, but I thought you were asking with other people". Now this was quite confusing as far as characterization is concerned, because the film nowhere talks about sex in the short life of the married couple ever in its narration (may be because its an Indian film). Strangely it neither happens on the first night of their unplanned wedding, (when they were both madly drunk) nor at any later stage when they both stay in the same home for days. Still, Kareena openly admits having sex with others and not Imraan. Probably she was not fond of boys from the Indian origin and hence was not sexually interested in him for that very reason.Using the borrowed plot of a sudden marriage in its first half, EMAET later moves on to its own path inspired from two other film-makers namely Woody Allen and Richard Linklater (of BEFORE SUNRISE and BEFORE SUNSET fame). But here the inspiration is more related to the treatment of the subject only which revolves around just two people on the screen and their enlightening conversations about love. Shakun Batra takes a brave step in conceiving a project focusing on only two characters in the script and he handles them well too. Yet, in what pressure he still goes on to add many over-used kind of sequences post intermission, remains questionable.Coming to the open climax of the film which I found highly unrealistic, impractical and illogical, I am surprised that many critiques have appreciated it with an open heart. Talking about Cinematography, EMAET has some great foreign visuals but a weak soundtrack with nothing exceptional in its songs except an above average party track called 'Auntyji'. In fact music is regularly coming out be the weakest feature of many new ventures, which indeed is a matter of utmost concern for all producers. The film is largely based on only two characters yet Ram Kapoor shines the most in the supporting cast, with the rest doing their routine acts as seen earlier.In all EK MAIN AUR EK TU is undoubtedly a daring attempt by the debut director, but it's also highly inspired, confused and impractical in its on-screen execution. If only the producer-director could have thought of a novel concept for their love story it could have been a gem. However for now it will surely enjoy the benefits of a Valentine Week release planned perfectly.

Sonal Agrawal Bollywood has absolutely run out of new ideas. This again was a copy- from What happens in Vegas. Anyways...Kareena Kapoor's hangover of Jab we met is not yet over...same stuff... living life on her terms etc etc. She is shown buying a pepperoni pizza in Starbuks (in the starting scene read the menu behind)??? While Imran Khan tries to act but in vain.The jokes about the family- family tradition of not laughing in car or granny coming over to say changing in front of TV, Amitabh watching- are not really funny. Parents on one end way too disciplined- you got to chew 32 times before you swallow and on the other hand the counter part are way too cool. No normal family.There is nothing that you cant predict about the movie the moment you start watching it, except that they end up being friends.

Sanjay Vyas The film has a very promising start which raises your expectations and takes you to the level where you begin to enjoy the sequences. It takes you rapidly from a budding boy who is so called "well-behaved", "disciplined" and "trophy" son who is raised as a robot and his parents expect him to be nothing but always a "numero uno". He himself never realizes his own identity and grows up to be an architect, oh well, but he is just an "average" guy who is not a great fit for that profession so he gets sacked. Now enters a totally opposite, "happy-go-lucky" gal who he despises at first but accidentally gets married to her (after over 100 drinks..literally, as shown) as you can get married anytime 24/7 in Las Vegas..right? Oh well, the rest of the movie is about his struggle with himself as he undergoes through identity-crisis and this gal helps him get over the goody-goody mama-papa's boy to a man who can live life on his own terms..while he also starts thinking that he loves her, but wait, she thinks they are just friends..so, now, that's how they end up...As I said earlier, it begins with lot of interest setting the bar high but then you just see the monotonous pace and predictable sequences which makes you feel..oh, cmon. The meeting is quite abrupt, the superstore phone conversation sounds to unrealistic (for US at least), then thinking that Rahul is following her is another unrealistic event, keeping the file of another patient and hitting him in a public place is invitation to the security. Drinking in public is not allowed in LV as well, moreover, police having fun with you while you are on 7th sky is highly a rarity even at a place like LV. All hotels being booked due to XMas is similar thing..I mean, one event after another, it just seems like director is playing around with the story and manipulating it any which way to keep it going. It definitely could have been made a lot better if the story dept was a bit stronger.Now the acting: Kareena really did justice to her character, she brings life to her role as Raina, she looks like Geet of Jab we met migrated from Punjab to US..but of course, not as good as Geet herself. Imran looks natural and does well but he looks stereotyped for this role. Others support well. Ratna Pathak tries to make you laugh through her dialogs but she looks like she just came out from the Sarabhai vs. Sarabhai serial and uses her dialogs here..we need something new Ms. Pathak. Ram Kapoor is wasted in a small role..probably, advertising stunt due to his popular small-screen presence.Bottomline: Good acting but bad story/screenplay makes this yet another average movie of 2012 and keeps us waiting for a better show.