I Hate Love Stories Movie Review

Karan Johar has been often accused of being hyperactive on portraying candy-floss entertainment in all these years. His latest entrant I HATE LOVE STORIES, a chirpy "feel-good" romantic entertainer brings out this confrontation through the mindsets of two leading characters, played by Sonam Kapoor and Imran Khan. Experimental and urbane to core, this reality-check on love-relationships promises frothy cum peppy music in its kitty, from hot "n" happening Vishal-Shekhar (V-S). After serenading out vivaciously vibrant trendy-beat soundtracks in DOSTANA (2008), this musical duo is likely to be casting another magical spell for the producers. In the past, KJo's immaculate record and choice of soundtracks has been making right moves and so expectations are reasonably high. Can this "love-hate" chemistry of love-birds have that extra pep-fizz to lure urbane listeners? Can we expect another chartbuster from ever-dependable Vishal-Shekhar in this much accepted genre of "feel-good" cinema? Fingers crossed and hope high as we plugged into its first soundtrack with sheer optimism.

Vishal Dadlani's coarsely blended rock-cum-reggae singing attire sets the pace and space for lively love-chemistry in series of event in peppy sounding "Jab Mila Tu". Anvita Dutt Guptan punches script-oriented wordings that delivers amiable graph between odd couples that are poles apart but still communicates. Its grungy rock-appeal had stringy electric guitar blues that are paced eclectically with spirited percussive moves in groovy reggae textured beats. Like "Jane Kyun" (DOSTANA -2008), it communicates in actions rather than delivering out emotions in melody and make mood frenzy. It targets campus-capers and so does it succeed with its refreshingly tangy melodic flavors that are surely going to have many takers. The initial thump of the album is eclectic as well as affirmative to be lapped at once. Do expect it to be next cool-ish sporty number (somewhat like "Hai Junoon" from NEW YORK) among teenyboppers when its racy signature tuneful makes it loud impact on media circuits.