LOVE STORY MOVIE REVIEW


 Vijay Mehra is a wealthy builder and loves Suman, who also loves Vijay. Ram Dogra is a civil engineer who loves Suman. Ram and Suman were friends in college.

But Vijay leaves Suman because he feels jealous of Ram and Suman's friendship and marries another girl, and Suman marries Ram, but Vijay's wife dies after giving birth to a baby boy, Bunty, while Suman and Ram welcome a baby girl, Pinky.

Years later, Bunty and Pinky meet as strangers, Vijay wants Bunty to become a builder with him, but Bunty wants to become a pilot, due to this reason, Bunty leaves home, and Pinky also leaves the home because her father wants her to marry.

Bunty and Pinky meet again, but Hawaldar Sher Singh, who is assigned the job of finding the missing boy and girl, handcuffs them together, after some the good and bad circumstances, both fall in love with each other, they go somewhere unknown place and build a small cottage and live happily.

But, not ever after. Ram enters the scene and forcibly takes away Pinky. Now, Vijay is ready to accept his son's love, but Ram plans to get his daughter married against her wishes.

Bunty and Pinky run away from home again, but a gang of robbers follow them, suddenly, Vijay and Ram come to save their children and Bunty saves Ram's life. Ram changes his mind, and in the end Bunty and Pinky marry.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Woot! It’s a Love Story! The title did not tell a lie. It’s not the best most satisfying love story I have ever seen, but it is for sure a love story. If you are considering seeing it, I will warn you now that the end bit is EXTREMELY stressful. And I give you the option of finding out what happens even in this No Spoilers review if you just can’t relax and enjoy a movie with that kind of stress.

This is a classic love story of the type that is also a character study. Two broken people with complex pasts and motivations come together and slowly heal each other as they fall in love. It’s a showpiece for writing, acting, directing as the relationship develops and the layers are removed from the characters. And then in the last ten minutes it gets WEIRD.


I don’t like to routinely research the development and filming process for films, I like to just deal with them as a final product if I can. But in this case, like with many COVID era films, it was such a striking shocking break in intention versus result, I really CAN’T ignore it. This film has a very clear strong tone to it, a build to who the characters are and where they are going, and then in the last few minutes it just fizzles in a way that MUST have been affected by the 2 year interruption in filming.

It’s too bad that it fizzles because the early non-interrupted sections are like clockwork. Sai Pallavi is predictably wonderful, and gets to play a really layered character. Naga Chaitanya, who is usually more of a “get by on looks and cuteness” sort of actor, gets an equally layered character. We know a little bit about them and then, as they learn about each other, the audience slowly learns about each of them. It’s just perfect. And then weird, and not perfect.

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