Indian love stories always have a lot of formulas or, “cliché” as some people call it, and we love them for that. Bollywood is not exciting without these masala movies, although we know what the climax is going to be from the start of first frame. Still these movies are fun. Now, is there any difference between those movies and IHLS???? Well who cares. Give me some great visuals and melodious soundtrack with a lead pair who shows some chemistry, some ‘rona dhona’ and ‘dramebazzi’ and of course an Airport in the climax, and we have got a winner.
We all know that 90% of times a love story will have these things but we still go out and enjoy them, nothing wrong in it as well, we pay to get entertained and if a movie can entertain us with all the above formulas than I don’t care about originality. Of course treatment of a subject makes it worth watching.
Now coming back to our movie in question IHLS, is more of a romantic comedy with the hero always having a sarcastic look on the popular formulas in a typical love story because he dose not believe in love, but his problem is that he works for Veer Kapoor, a very famous movie director who is known for his masala romantic movies with all the ingredients from Yash Chopra to Karan Johar. And then we have a heroine of course, who actually believes in a perfect love story, who believes she is living in one of them, and then these two meet and story begins, which we all know is going to end with these two getting together. Anyhow the good thing about this movie is that it uses a lot of popular music and famous scenes from other hit movies of Chopra and Johar and make sarcastic remarks about them being cliché and the director of this movie has taken a lot of pot holes at the producer of the movie itself i.e. Karan Johar and also at Shah Rukh Khan. This is commendable, because we in Indian cinema are prone to such things, and there are potential deformation claims in waiting (Remember the Manoj Kumar incidence from Om Shanti Om). So better make mockery of the inside people.
To be frank this movie makes me remember ‘Love Aaj Kal’, in that movie it was shown how a today’s man who does not believes in love starts believing in it after he could draw parallel with the story of an old guy. And understands in the end, that love has not changed, even though time has changed. Likewise the hero in, I Hate Love Storys, feels all the romance shown in movies is false, but slowly starts believing in it when it starts happening to him.
Overall the freshness of visuals with melodious music with ok ok performances from the cast, makes the movie one time watch, if you have not seen it already.
Rating **1/2
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