With Luv Tumhara Movie Reviews

Good intentions don€™t always translate into a good film. That€™s exactly the case in €˜With Luv Tumhara€™ where director Kamal Nathani successfully intends to make a good clean film with decent performances, wedded-to-nature locales and melodious music. But the predictability factor in this love story coupled with snail-slow-pace of the film is its biggest shortcoming. End result, €˜With Luv Tumhara€™ is a tepid fare which you should watch only if you are a die heart romantic with loads of patience and a hell lot of free time.

The story fails to surprise you. And you don€™t feel like saluting army man Akshay Kapoor (Nakul Vaid) when he dies on duty for he had been writing love letters to sweetheart Anu (Preeti Jhangiani) while the enemy was firing bullets-with-a-vengeance. Give me a break dude. Well, €˜good friend€™ Rahul (Pravin Dabas) breaks the bad news to Akshay€™s father Col. Kapoor (Sharath Saxena) but he doesn€™t have the guts to say the same to his fiancé Anu as she is passionately in love and can never imagine anything bad can happen.

Rahul stays back. Vampish girl friend Neha (Anupama Verma) gives him €˜deadline€™ calls but he pays no heed. Obviously he falls in love with Anu, discovers true love, she doesn€™t reciprocate etc etc. Now, where have I seen-n-heard this before? Scratch scratch€¦.Wow what a novel idea! It€™s a suffering to sit back in a more-or-less empty hall to let the story go by.

Now, things are not that bad. For in spite of a wafer thin plot, Nathani weaves his characters in a competent manner. And what works in his favour are decent performances by almost all the actors. Preeti Jhangiani€™s journey from Punjabi shalwar kameez to chiffon sarees has been well chronicled. She adds depth to the role of a passionate lover who loses out everything in life. This girl can catapult herself to big league if she makes the right moves.

Pravin Dabas is not a hero in the traditional Bollywood sense of the word. He is not conventionally good looking, doesn€™t have the body of a Hrithik Roshan but still there€™s a lot of intensity in his eyes and body language that makes him stand apart. After €˜Khosla Ka Ghosla€™ he once again delivers a creditable performance. He is a bit too laid back at times and maybe needs to work on that front.

Nakul Vaid as Akshay and Sharath Saxena as Col. Kapoor lend depth to their characters. As for vampish Anupama Verma, well she is better off locked up in the house of €˜Bigg Boss€™. It€™s time she kissed her acting ambitions goodbye. One needed lots of gumption to suffer her histrionics.

Music by Sudeep Banerjee is surprisingly good. €˜Dheere Dheere€™ and €˜Zindagi€™ are gems. I am interested in knowing what Sudeep is doing next. Outdoor location of Manali is one of the biggest plus points of this movie. Even if you are terribly bored by the proceedings, you can always feast on the nascent-magic of effervescent flowers, heavenly mist and shrouded-with-green-top-mountains.

As for €˜With Luv Tumhara€™ then it€™s an old wine in a new bottle. I don€™t think you€™d have a good time watching it in a theatre. But yes, maybe it€™s worth a watch once it premieres on television.

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