I Hate Luv Storys Earns 6.5 Cr overseas

I Hate Luv Storys featuring Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor has fetched an excellent start in the international markets. The film has collected approx. Rs. 6.5 crores in its opening weekend, which is very, very good, since the film doesn't really star names that draws the overseas audience to theatres. In fact, this is amongst the best starts of this year!

People are reacting positively to I Hate Luv Storys – Karan Johar

Karan Johar and Co. has cracked it well with I Hate Luv Storys. The romcom is basically a packaged affair. Despite a thin storyline it has clicked at the box office with mega collections coming in over the weekend. Producer Karan Johar is, of course, happy with the state of affairs and clearly understands the factors that led to the film’s big opening.

I Hate Luv Storys neither romantic enough nor cynical

by Subhash K Jha

Starring: Imran Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Sammir Dattani

Written & Directed by Punit Malhotra

Rating: **

Swear to God and hope to die if I lie. But I really love love- stories even if they're spelt as 'luv –storys'.

But debutant director Punit Malhotra's I Hate Luv Storys (IHLS) just proves a over-sassy, under-written, rudderless out-of-control disappointment, coming as it does from Karan Johar production house which in the last one year has given us two films by debutant directors –Rensil d'Silva's Kurbaan and Ayaan Mukerjee's Wake Up Sid—which made a difference to the way we look at contemporary commercial cinematic entertainment.

IHLS is neither romantic enough nor cynical in sufficient measures about romantic cinema. Neither mushy nor tongue-in-cheek, the relationship between a dreamy-eyed romantic art -director Simran (Sonam, looking suitably dreamy-eyed and romantic) and a sardonic sneering cynical assistant-director Jay (Imran Khan), hovers uneasily between romance and its rejection.We never know which of the two is the guiding factor in the plot.

So take a look. We have this goofy messy guy named Jay who hates his surname 'Dhingra' because it isn't 'cool.' Making fun of mushy films is. Even if your helping one to be made.

The cool quotient in Punit Malhotra's screenplay spills out in unchecked amounts. Characters roll their eyes and chuckle loudly at the mention of romance. Their aggressive denial of all things lovey-dovey should have been backed up by oodles of basic common sense, warmth and witticism.

The writing lacks all three qualities. The screenplay is uneven and the lines that the characters mouth are intentionally designed to be cool.They end up being unintentionally awkward.

Urban cool, like glamour and chutzpah only works when it's done unselfconsciously. Most moments that take the narration towards the inevitable embrace of the diehard romantic and the laugh-hard cynic are strung together like one-line sms jokes stretched into a love saga from here to to New Zealand.

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Amisha Patel, Vivek @ I Hate Luv Story special screeni

Amisha Patel, Vivek @ I Hate Luv Story special screeni

Box office - ‘Raajneeti’ a blockbuster, ‘Raavan’ flops

Finally Raavan has been declared a ‘Flop’. Judging from its poor first-week collection, it wasn’t that hard to determine its destiny. The much hyped Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai film after Guru just managed to do Rs 24 crore business in its first week, and, as per reports, it may fall short of Rs 30 crore for its lifetime business.

Coming to Raajneeti, it’s a blockbuster. The news of it becoming such a huge hit has given the industry a boost. According to reports, the film is the biggest hit of the first half releases of 2010 with a likely Rs 47-48 crore lifetime share. The Prakash Jha-directed film gave a huge lift to the industry after the unexpected failure of Kites, which is one of the biggest flops of 2010.

Last Friday’s release Krantiveer 2opened to a not-so-good response of meager 10-15%. The lack of publicity and unknown faces instead of popular stars has affected its collection at box office.

The upcoming rom-com I Hate Luv Storys is expected to set the cash registers ringing again.

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'I Hate Luv Storys' does not belittle Bollywood: Imran Khan

He achieve heartthrob status with his debut on the popular romcom "Jaan Tu Ya Jaan Well" and Imran Khan returns to the type of "I Hate Luv Story" (IHLS), which he says is a parody of all belongings Bollywood.

At the same time as Imran new film jokes on "cheesy" treatment, love stories in Hindi cinema, actor says the film does not take a patronizing view of Bollywood, rather than laughter comes from the fact that all and sundry loves the great spotted cliché.

I Hate Luv Storys | First look | First Video

Directed by Punit Malhotra
Produced by Karan Johar
Written by Punit Malhotra
Starring Imran Khan
Sonam Kapoor
Sameer Dattani
Samir Soni
Music by Vishal-Shekhar