Some movies are best watched through their trailers. The latest to movie to join this elite list is I Hate Luv Storys.

Here is how a popular trailer of the movie goes.

Guy: Naam?

Girl: Simran

Guy: Kitni filmi naam hai... Tumhara koi boyfriend to nahi, jiska naam Raj hai?

Girl: Mere fiancé ka naam Raj hai.

And that ladies and gentlemen is the only half decent scene in the entire movie.So if you have seen the trailer you have seen the movie as such. No point wasting Rs 400 over the weekend on a multiplex ticket and then paying Rs 100 for a popcorn which isn't worth more than two rupees anyway.

Having said that there are several good points in the movie.

Sonam Kapoor:She is not that bad. I mean when you have competition from the likes ofKatrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone, where the director just about says cut, once they have managed to mouth their lines in Hindi correctly, Sonam sure knows her Hindi well. And thus can act.

Imran Khan: Imran Khan is not much of an actor (Imran can't act saala...oops bad joke) .I mean you got to have seen Luck and that moviewith "thunder thighs" Minisha Lamba, where Lamba plays an eighteen year old girl (Erggggg....) whom Khan kidnaps....yes that was the name of the movie.... Kidnap...So you got to have seen these movies to know what I mean.

As far as his first movie Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na is concerned, I mean what else can you say other than the fact that his two mamu jaans (Aamir Khan and Mansoor Khan) produced the movie. Also the script written by Abbas Tyrewala was really a spoof on Hindi cinema, and really required a non-acting actor...you know what I mean...and Imran fitted the bill perfectly.

But the young hip cool look does suit him in I Hate Luv Storys before he starts to ham S S S S Simran....

The chemistry between the lead pair is just about okay. Ranbir does suit Sonam just a wee bit more. Mmm....only if the chemistry between the lead pair could make the movie a hit. Remember Silsila, with Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha, what chemistry, and what a resounding flop.

The music sounds rather peppy on the first listening, but soon you realise that Vishal and Shekhar have essentially used all their leftover tunes from Dostana, given that Dostana 2 is not going anywhere.

But these are just peripheral reasons of why the movie is such a dud. The real reason is the fact that Karan Johar hasn't got a half decent script since he made Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, which was a genuinely different and a fresh movie, at that point of time. I mean you could even say Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, was just about there. But after that it's all been downhill, the media hype notwithstanding.

Kal Ho Na Ho, which Johar wrote and was directed by his former assistant Nikhil Advani (who went onto make the super duds of all super duds Chandni Chowk to China, and managed to convince Warner Brothers to produce and Akshay Kumar to act on the basis of a single poster that he had made of the film. There was no script or for that matter anything else planned.) cannot be anaylsed due to ethical reasons. It was essentially a total lift of Anand, set in New York with of course Shahrukh doing a Kaka. In some other country with better copyright laws, the makers would have been sued.

Then came this super dud called Kaal, which Kjo produced with Shahrukh. Of course they made the movie only to realise, gadbad ho gayi, and frantically added an item number with Shahrukh and Mallaika Arora at the beginning to ensure that kum se kum ek weekend ke leeye to log aa jaayen...

Then came Kabhi Alvida Na Kahna, which had the most promising star casts in recent years. What the movie did was clearly show Karan Johar's lack of experience when it comes to a man-woman relationship.

Hmmm, the recent past has seen Karan producing Kurbaan, which just put you to yawn (Kurbann was such a yawn, I mean that even rhymes). Then there was Wake Up Sid, which was so slow and thanda ki you were left thinking ke bhai behan ki kahani hai kya?It was like the lead pair of this movie almost said I Hate Love Storys. Also a leading numerologist thought that it was not advisable for Karan to have junked his lucky letter K and that ensured that the movie did not do well (Okay I made that up.) But if K was such a koncern....oops I seem to be getting my Ks and Cs mixed up....was such a concern then Dostana, wouldn't have worked.

My Name is Khan was lucky to have got all the publicity it did, for all the wrong reasons. Try watching the movie now without the entire charged atmosphere, and the Sena not gunning for Shahurkh. You'll know it is probably the worst movie Karan Johar has ever made. Kabhi Alvida Na Kahna was such a gem in comparison.

So all that leaves us with I Hate Love Storys, which at its heart is Dilwale Dulhainya Le Jayenge(DDLJ), and also has shades of Dil Chahta Hai. The tragedy is DDLJ was made 15 years ago and released on October 1, 1995 (this writer saw the first day first show at Uphar cinema in Ranchi).

So the bottom-line is if people have already seen DDLJ, and for those who haven't can pick up the ninety rupee DVD, why would they watch a rehashed version of the same movie? And that to 15 years later?And to those who did, my sympathies. The good part though is you have contributed to the gross domestic product of the country and have brought the multiplier effect into play. (What was that? Well, we will leave that for another piece I guess)

It is like film directors trying to remake Sholay till almost 20 years after its release, until the truth dawned that another Sholay cannot be made. Or when everyone suddenly wanted to make a shaadi ka movie like Hum Aapke Hain Kaun. Like Sholay and HAHK before it, another DDLJ cannot be made. But producers and directors and writers refuse to learn. It is like someone once said "everybody in the film industry wants a new story that has already been made before".