Perfect chick flick; sweet, cliched and a romance novel come to life.

I recently completed a re-run binge of How I Met Your Mother. Then, I gave this flick a watch. It was like deja vu.The screenwriters basically took most of the jokes from the 9 season run series, translated them into Hindi and voila - all the "modern"jokes in I Hate Luv Storys. From the "Hot - Crazy Scale", to Barney's antics with the playbook: This movie copies them all and is not really all that subtle about it. The cliched dialogues and rehashed punchlines was one of my major grimes with this movie.The acting in the movie is pretty average, even by the low standards set for both, fairly new actors. Sonam Kapoor does a decent job and adds some realism to some scenes. Imran Khan on the other hand delivers a stiff performance and makes his character hard to find charming in any sort of way. All his scenes come off just shy of being cringe-worthy. Although in all fairness, his character lacks any edginess or charisma sp there is little he could do to bring it to life anyway.The soundtrack was decent, although the frequent dance numbers did throw off the pace of the movie a bit.All in all, there isn't anything groundbreaking to be found here."I Hate Luv Storys" had a lot of potential that, unfortunately, didn't translate to a good movie on screen. If you've got a few hours to kill, I'd check this out. If you're someone who can't stand half-assed, plagiarized dialogues, I'd stay away from this one.

I watched this movie, coz I knew it was partly shot in NZ, and the actors gave interviews when they came here to shoot.... I didn't have ANY expectations at all, as I had only seen Sonam in "Sawariya" and never seem Imran in anything! I agree to a point with some who say that the movie played on Clichés, but we have to realize that this is deliberate. The thing is.... this movie is trying to say the same thing those melodramas did, but with a lot less embellishments and in a more straightforward sense. It does not ALWAYS succeed in this, but it did not have any of the over dramatized love scenes or nauseating dialogue of some old movies. Instead, it tried to tell us that falling in love is ALWAYS somewhat dramatic, but try to break it down to a more believable level. Lets be honest... who here has not got drunk and called someone you liked? or made a fool of yourself falling for a co-worker etc? It's believable. The two characters had differing beliefs, but find common ground while working together and they start to rely on each others company without even realising it. Love creeps up on them and Simran being an incurable romantic accepts and understand this first, but Jay does not. It takes her extricating herself from his life, for him to realize how important she had become to him, and his journey to this realisation is painful for him. (We realize that his dislike of love and relationships does not just come from a superficial level, but from his parents failed relationship that contributes to his cynicism).As for the actors….Imran was a BABE, could not take my eyes off him.... and Sonam was sooo pretty. They lit up the screen; the chemistry was electric in some scenes. I disagree with those who say that it was not there? Where were you? They were hot, and never hotter than in those scenes in Queenstown! LOVED them! There was a natural, un-tried chemistry between them that was really enjoyable to watch. You can totally believe them just hanging out on a set, in bars and coffee shops.I found the character Kunal hilarious, he had the BEST lines in the movie and even Giselle was very funny! The perfect BF wearing the same colour…..? Maybe a bit overdone, but it was trying to make a point of how hard he was trying and how badly he was failing. Mr Wrong NEVER tries so hard, but this is what makes him so lovable.The music was good. My favourite songs being "Sadka Kiya", "Bin Tere",& "Jub Mila Tu".Favourite line in the movie…. (After a drunken night out on the town with Jay) Simran: "That's it? Jay: "Aur Kya karna chati ho? (Tanslates- "what more to you want to do?")I give this movie chops for irreverent humour!I loved Imran and Sonam together in this movie. It was a great pairing. Good luck to you both!

Movie sucks big time. The main lead with two caterpillars for eyebrows and effete features, can't act..period. Sonam Kapoor, is paper thin and her acting..thinner than a cellophane. The problem here is two actors whose credentials are questionable and in an industry where nepotism runs wild, are put in a movie to cater to the so called "bobbysoxers". But I don't deem the aforementioned sect think,talk or behave the way it is depicted in this movie. Anil Kapoor, is probably the only actor ever to achieve fame in Bollywood and Hollywood. He is even nominated for an EMMY, for his acting in TV Sit-Com. I would say this guy is the "Al Pacino" of the Indian Cinema. As they say,the talent skips a generation is true for Sonam Kapoor. The lovers are neither innocent nor the love sublime. The best part of the movie was the theater with the clearly marked...Exit Sign.