Come and Join Kearny Street Workshop as we present Love AAJ Kal on Sunday March, 14th @ 9:00pm at the Castro Theater!
Get your tickets at:
http://filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org/tixSYS/2010/xslguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=1055
Love Aaj Kal
International Showcase
(India, 2009, 130 mins, 35mm)
In Hindi & English w/E.S. with English subtitles
Directed By: Imtiaz Ali
Producer: Saif Ali Khan, Dinesh Vijan
Writer: Ali
Cinematographer: Natarajan Subramaniam
Editor: Aarti Bajaj
Music: Pritam
Cast: Khan, Deepika Padukone, Rishi Kapoor, Rahul Khanna
Bollywood at the Castro returns with one of India’s biggest hits of the past year! Based loosely on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s THREE TIMES (!), LOVE AAJ KAL stars the hunky Saif Ali Khan and the sultry Deepika Padukone as two different couples in in two different times, leading parallel lives of courtship and love lost and found. London, 2009: Jai and Meera are a fun-loving, free-spirited couple. They don’t believe in “commitments” or tying one another down, so when careers beckon them to Delhi and San Francisco, they decide to amicably split ways.
As time passes, however, memories and feelings remain. Have they really moved on‾ Delhi, 1965: Veer Singh is a man in love. Smitten after catching one glimpse of the beautiful Harleen, he vows to marry her, but when she soon moves to far-away Calcutta and is becomes engaged, more than distance separates them. A romantic at heart, he follows her, fueled by dreams of true love and destiny. Is his secret, almost impossible passion enough to bring them together‾ Delightfully weaving together these two eras and stories, LOVE AAJ KAL charts a fantastic journey through the confusion, folly and joy of falling in love, and shows how the miles between lovers might just make the heart grow fonder.
Khan, whose modern, hip performances in KAL HO NAA HO (2003) and HUM TUM (2004) made him one of India’s top romantic leads, is a delight to watch as both the brash Jai and the soulful Veer Singh, while Padukone is a true revelation as she transforms herself from street-wise London beauty to demure country girl. What’s truly unforgettable, however, is the exuberant chemistry between these two stars, and the fabulous song and dance sequences that bring them together.
See you there!
