Movie: I Hate Luv Storys
Director: Punit Malhotra
Year: 2010
Stars: Imran Khan, Sonam Kapoor and Sameer Dattani

Snapshot of the Story

This movie will force you to rethink whether you actually love someone? The story of the movie revolves around the lives of two people Jay (Imran Khan) and Simran (Sonam Kapoor). Both are exactly opposite of each other. Simran is fond of love stories that her life has started resembling the one and on the other hand is Jay who does not believe in love. Simran is engaged and is living a dreamy and happy life with her fiancé but it is rudely interrupted by Jay’s cynicism and both however fall in love with each other.

Storyline
Jay (Imran Khan) is a assistant of Veer, a most famous romantic filmmaker of the Indian film Industry but in real life he hates love stories and is a Casanova and a disbeliever of love. For a new film he has to work under a production designer named Simran (played by Sonam Kapoor). Simran loves Bollywood romances so much so that even her life has started resembling one. She is living a beautiful, dreamy and blissful life with her fiancé Raj (played by Sameer Dattani), and seems to be a match made in heaven.

Jay hates Simran for her love towards romance and her strong belief in romance and at the same time Simran dislikes him because of his misbehavior and hatred towards love. As they have to work together the rift between the two diminishes and both of them become best friends with each other. In the meantime, Simran realizes that she is in love with Jay and due to this her relationship with Raj becomes eroded. She then confesses her feelings to Jay but he refuses her proposal and says that they were just good friends and that he doesn’t believe in love. As a result of the refusal, heartbroken Simran flies away to New Zealand for further shooting of the movie and there she ignores Jay. Now Jay starts to become uneasy and agitated without her and realizes that he too has fallen in love with Simran.

Jay invites Simran for dinner and there he proposes her but Simran denies his proposal and becomes tied up again with her ex – fiancé Raj and she don’t want to ditch him again. Brokenhearted Jay thinks that he doesn’t need love in his life and tries to forget Simran but his friends and mother persuade him not to give up. Meanwhile Raj proposes Simran and she accepts the proposal but soon realize that she is not meant for Raj and she still loves Jay. Simran explains her feelings to Raj and goes to the premier show of the movie hoping that she will get to see Jay there. But Jay had already decided to leave and has reached the airport waiting for the flight, there she talks to his mother and gets encouraged by her and goes back to the premier showing of the movie. In this manner both of them meet each other giving the movie a happy ending.

Final Thoughts

“I Hate Luv Storys” is an usual love story and offers nothing new in the way of content in the movie. Director Punit Malhotra did a good job in dishing out a story with freshness. It as surprising to see why Karan Johar did not direct the movie who has created the essence of romance in his previous movie. Vishal Dadlani did a good make of vibrant music for the movie and did experiment himself as singer.

Rating
“I Hate Luv Storys” bags 6 out of 10 for good music and only because of director Punit Malhotra who delivered interesting love story in spite of the story lacking freshness.