I Hate Luv Storys Review

Cast – Imran Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Samir Dattani, Samir Soni

Direction, Writer – Punit Malhotra

Produced by- Karan Johar, Ronnie Screwwala

Music- Vishal Shekhar

Genre- Romantic Comedy

Ratings- ***

Another one bites the dust. The only highlight of the whole movie was- not the romance between Sonam Kapoor and Imran Khan- but Dharma productions banner. The only reason it hit the box office at the first few days was the excitement that came with the movie name ‘I hate love storys‘. But once the response came from the audience one could see no one was happy with this product except of the refreshing Jodi that is jaunting and jiving on screen.

Basically, this is the same treadmill run romantic story packaged in a different style, and one cannot help but wonder at the hints made on how romantic movies are made. This is a one line movie stretched out for two and half hour. The story line girl loves boys, he says no; he falls in love she says no; and now what? This is what the whole movie revolved around.  Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor starts on we-hate-each-other note. Imran’s character Jay Dhingra likes girls but also hates girly stuff and surprisingly ends up crying like a girl soon.

The movie starts with all mushy romantic movie scene one can think of and in background Jay (Imran Khan) explaining how he hates love stories. Simran (Sonam Kapoor) is die hard romantic movies fan and enters as her boss. She is having a normal happy life with his fiancé Raj (Sameer Dattani) till she starts enjoying spending time with Jay and realizes something is amiss in her perfect life. She confesses of her love to Jay but he does not reciprocate back. The confrontation seems too silly for such a situation. Before we even digest the fact within end of one song she is back with Raj and Jay who runs away from love is madly in love.

The movie can make seriously romantic hearts cry not with happiness but frustration and confusion created all along. Sameer is wasted as Raj; made to act like a dumb. One cannot help but feel pity for him throughout the movie for being treated like garbage throughout. Karan Johar has made a good character portrayal resembling him in form of Veer Kapoor (Samir Soni).

Still the whole movie is a cliché of every romantic scene one can think about. It lacks freshness but still it is sweet movie with everything you expect in a typical Johar’s movie. But still it could not deliver the height of romance and drama his movies are known for, while at the same time justice was not done giving very less chance for chemistry to develop. The dialogues in the movie are cheesy and corny at times. On a second thought it can work well for references of movies made by Dhrama production.

Punit Malhotra has done a decent job as first time writer and director. The outdoor location in New Zealand is a new venue finally Dharma production has ventured to from their normal second home New York and London. The songs are on chartbuster list. Vishal- Shekhar has done a good job with music composition.

In short it is one time watch; a very simple, uni-layered and highly predictable movie.