Love Aaj Kal Page #4

Synopsis: London-based Jai Vardhan Singh and Meera Pandit meet, fall in love, and she introduces him to her family. Shortly thereafter, they decide to part as she wants to re-locate to India to restore heritage buildings, while he re-locates to America. Restauranteur Veer Singh attempts to convince Jai to pursue her, as he had pursued Harleen Kaur back in 1965 India, but Jai moves on and falls in love with Caucasian Jo, while Meera is all set to get marry her employer, Vikram Joshi.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Imtiaz Ali
Production: Eros Entertainment
  17 wins & 45 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
NOT RATED
Year:
2009
128 min
$2,000,000
Website
3,025 Views


What? You should have told me.

I would have never said no!

Ma`am.

- One second.

And you want to know what

l`ve taken advantage of?

I`ll admit it to you today.

Of your guilt.

You`re very quick to admit

that you`ve made a mistake.

Avoid `sorry`.

And you avoid purple,

avoid green, avoid brown.

Actually green`s okay.

But only certain shades.

Ma`am, please, we`re

beginning to taxi now.

The posters in your room..

..the pendant hanging

from your car mirror..

..and your blue sunglasses..

Useless! Throw them away.

Your smile, Meera.

Don`t be extravagant

with your smile.

You drive men wild with your smile!

I should smile at Vikram Joshi then.

He`s heading the restoration

project in Delhi.

The meeting is tomorrow.

I hope I can join his group somehow.

You will, Meera. No one can stop you.

You`re very smart..

..and so willing to

make compromises in life.

I`ve met up with a lot of

old friends from college..

..Iike Kashish.

My ex-roommate.

You`ll like her.

She`s just your type.

My type?

I thought you were my type.

So, Jai?

Have I gone..

..from your thoughts?

You know, I thought you had..

But there was a girl in

the CD store the other day.

She was just my type.

She was giving me the look..

..because I wasn`t trying.

She smiled at me

when I moved closer.

I smiled back.

Then I just turned

around and walked out.

Must be because of you.

Colly..

Big crush on you.

Serious?

I thought it was a joke.

Try it.

She`ll love that.

It`ll be good for her.

And what`s your story?

Am I out?

Or am I still batting

at the crease?

Jai, I wanted to speak

to you about something.

My boss, Vikram..

I studied his papers in London.

He`s done art

restoration around the world.

My sister, Radhika, and her husband,

think he`s a real cool cat.

Now, Vikram..

He was telling me that I should..

You know..

Dinner and all.

Just a second, Meera.

Someone`s knocking on the door.

Hold on, please.

Yes. Sorry.

What were you saying?

Okay.

Look, he`s a nice guy.

That`s not the problem.

So.

Check it out.

Go out for dinner with him.

Should l?

Why not?

I`m with him through

the day, in any case.

Then having dinner

with him is no big deal.

The thing is..

I have a feeling..

..that he likes me a lot.

And I think you like him too.

Yes, but not in that way.

You might start feeling that way.

If you give it a chance.

The fact that we work

together is a problem.

It could get really messy.

Wow, Meera.

Did you think this much

when we were together?

I should have.

But you still managed

to get out of this mess.

You`ll get out of that one too.

So, you think I should

give it a try?

One hundred percent.

Fine.

But you`ll have to guide me.

That`s something only you can do.

Okay.

All the mistakes

that I made with you..

I don`t want to repeat them.

Okay.

Fine.

Bye-bye.

Bye.

Fantastic!

Outstanding!

She`s going out with someone else.

Now, l`ll have to move on!

Super..

And so many months have passed.

What am I doing?

This is my wild stallion phase.

I should maximise it.

Freedom.

You`re doing okay, right?

Not really.

I`m a little shaken up.

Interesting.

But I have noticed something.

I can`t stay unhappy for too long.

I`m a defective piece.

I`ll get over it in a flash.

What did you do, Brother?

When she had left?

I was unhappy for a very long time.

Months passed by.

But the sadness and

longing continued..

Then I finally took a decision.

I`m putting in Rs.25.

That makes it a total of Rs.75.

What about you, Laale?

Around Rs.15 or Rs.20.

- Which is it? Rs.15 or Rs.20?

Rs.15, definitely.

- Rupees 15.

So, that makes it Rs.90.

And you, Bittu?

I`ll try to give Rs.10.

Hey, listen.

Hey! Are you listening?

Satto, go..

Take this and go. Take this.

Your turban has to be tied.

Dear, come in. - Your grandmother

is calling for you.

Come on, dear.

- No.. no.

The day is dawning.

It`s the colour of your skin.

The day is dawning.

It`s the colour of your skin.

Like a flower blooming,

is this day..

Lord, may this day

never come to an end.

This girl l`ve met in my dreams..

Please make her mine.

For the sake of my heart.

Lord, to her doorstep l`ve come.

The whole world, l`ve left behind.

Please make my dreams come true.

For the sake of my heart.

Vegetables for sale..

You`ve pardoned sins.

Listening to prayers.

Lord, you`ve granted love..

..to everyone in this world.

Listen to my sighs too.

Listen to my prayers.

Give her to me.

Who already has my heart..

You`ve pardoned sins.

Listening to prayers.

Lord, you`ve granted love..

..to everyone in this world.

Listen to my sighs too.

Listen to my prayers.

Give her to me.

Who already has my heart..

She`s my desire, my thirst.

This I want her to know..

She who sees me and smiles.

She who I desire night and day.

Lord, won`t you make her mine.

For the sake of my heart.

No, no.

Tell me you`re lying!

You..

No.

Yes?

Man!

Bharat Ratna Award!

The Padma Bhushan!

You must have received some award?

What are you made of?

How have you survived this long?

How did you manage to

build all this?

It`s all due to her.

Harleen.

How?

Earlier, I would just

hang around doing nothing..

..along with all

my penniless friends.

But then I took up a job.

I needed to earn money..

..because I had to marry Harleen.

In the hope of

spending my life with her..

..I became serious in life.

And you are so serious in life..

..that you separated from Meera.

So that your work doesn`t suffer.

Tell me something.

It had been one year

since you and Harleen..

In all that time, nothing happened?

I mean..

Nothing at all!

You know..

This `thing` that your talking of..

In our time,

it wasn`t distributed around..

..Iike sugar and almonds.

We weren`t animals.

There was respect..

..and a proper way to do things.

First, we would fall in love..

..then rebel against our families.

After that, we would get married.

Then this `thing` would happen.

Not like today..

..where all this

happens in the beginning.

And then one asks

What`s your name, Sister?

I forgot to ask you your name.

It doesn`t happen like that.

Oh, come on.

And why `sister`?! Please.

If all of that happens

right in the beginning..

..then what`s left?

How is your heart going to ache.

Then l`m saved.

I`m lucky that l`ve

been born in these times.

I don`t have a heart or heart ache..

..and I don`t want them either.

Thank God, I don`t

have to make a pledge.

And I don`t have to

travel a thousand miles..

..in a rattling train..

..just to get a

glimpse of a girls face.

I can leave her, let her go.

Because life keeps changing.

And of course, she`ll meet someone.

She`ll hold someone`s hand.

He`ll touch her and all of that..

All that will happen.

It`s logical and it happens.

Life keeps changing.

Life keeps moving forward.

We have to move with it.

`The carnival that is twisting its

way around London street today.`

`Keep your eyes open for that.`

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