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Co- Produced by Adlabs and Pammi Baweja, Love Story 2050 is sci-fi costing a whopping 50 Crore rupees and marks the debut Harman Baweja, son of the director Harry Baweja. The USP of the flick is in the special effects, letting it down is a poor storyline coupled in with poor scripting and screenplay. No wonder it opened up to a lukewarm response……

The film starts of with Karan (Harman Baweja) the super rich son of industrialist father (Dalip Tahil), who is quite lonely, craves for love and communicates with to his dead mother through the stars. Karan happens to meet Sana (Priyanka Chopra) a simple petite girl and love blossoms between the two. Karan’s uncle Dr.Yatinder Khanna (Boman Irani) a scientist is working on developing a time machine for the last 15 years. Sana expresses her desire to Dr.Ya about traveling to Mumbai ahead of time i.e. the year 2050. A tragedy strikes and the love story ends there, but Karan still intends to be united to Sana.

Dr.Ya then completes the time machine. He and Karan embark on their journey to the year 2050 to find themselves bumping into Zeisha (Priyanka Chopra) a rock star, who does not believe in love, especially so after her parents death. Karan is determined to remind Zeisha of their love and take her back to 2008, but he just has a month’s time to achieve it. Here they are faced by a masked Dr. Hoshi an evil scientist who wants to grab the time machine from them. Will Karan be able to fight Dr. Hoshi? Will Ziesha acknowledge his love and would he be able remind her being Sana? Will they all make it to 2008?

The special effects from the two international houses (Weta Workshop and John Cox) have been terrific but at times seem a bit inconsistent. Music by Anu Malik is good and the track ‘Sach Kehna’ and ‘Milo Na Milo’ are hummable. Choregraphy (Vaibhavi Merchant), Cinematography and Sound are first-rate. Amar Mohile has come up with a great background score.





Harman Baweja has proved why he is compared to Hrithik Roshan when it comes to dancing and acting, but may require improving on dialogue delivery, definitely has the goods. Priyanka Chopra looks good but nothing to be speaking on her performance. The robots BOO and QT are cool. Boman has efficiently depicted the eccentric scientist. The kids as Sana’s brother and sister could have been easily avoided; same goes for Karan’s friends.

Well here’s a flick with quite okay first half and a second half with flying cars, biometric id, video games and talking robots, an imagination of Mumbai in 2050 with dominating VFX. This sci-fi would have been surely great commercial pot-boiler, if it was not to be done in by a pathetic storyline. With a run time of 3 hours, as of now it disappoints big time.

The movie Via Darjeeling dishes out a mystery in which interpreters roll out their own versions of a missing link, to an extent even the viewer has to chance his own interpretation. The director Arindam Nandy has tried experimenting with a plot which gives a feel of being best suited the small screen, in episodes.

The plot begins with a newly wed couple Ankur (Kay Kay Menon) and Rimli (Sonali Kulkarni) on their honeymoon in Darjeeling. On the way back to Calcutta, Ankur happens to disappear. Rimli frantically asks the hotel authorities to call in for the cops, the inspector Robin Dutt (Vinay Pathak) starts off investigating. He figures out from Rimli that Ankur had a fight with the rash hotel taxi driver and also came in heavily on the hotel manager as well. She also states of being stalked by a stranger Bonny (Pravin Dabbas) throughout their trip.

The scene moves two years post the incident wherein Inspector Dutt’s alongwith group of friends Ronodeep Sen (Rajat Kapoor), Preeti Sen (Simone Singh), Mallika Tiwari (Sandhya Mridul), Kaushik Chatterjee (Proshant Narayanan) are having gup-shup on a rainy day with drinks and dinner. Dutt narrates the story and everyone is keen to know what happened to Ankur, but Dutt responds of being unaware as he was told by his superiors not to investigate further. Now, each one of them comes up with their own versions indicating individual personality perceptions.

The director Arindam Nandy does catch attention quite a few times in the duration of 2 hours. The dialogues by Atul Sabharwal rightly fit the bill. The music is okay and doesn’t seem detached. The story should have had the final factual inputs from Inspector Dutt, about Ankur.

Kay Kay the perfectionist, as is always. Sonali Kulkarni has been a revelation with wide array emotion display. Vinay Pathak, Pravin Dabbas, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sandhya Mridul and Proshant Narayanan complement each other very well. The star cast has been well chosen for the flick.

Via Darjeeling is more of a experimental cinema, which does not give you an answer but leaves you to have your own interpretation…………