The future of love isn’t all that bright

Love Story 2050
Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Harman Baweja, Boman Irani
Director: Harry Baweja

Harry Baweja's film is a painfully long drawn out, severely indulgent advertisement which fails to convince you to buy the product. In present day Adelaide, Harman Baweja's 'talents' are being advertised: watch him in action; watch him look cool, angry, sad, loving; see him dance, and check out his chiseled physique.

The only thing missing is a scroll with his manager's number running at the bottom of the screen. Harman must be grateful to his dad for this showcase.

The boy has clearly worked hard on his dancing, his bodybuilding, consulted long with his stylist (but maybe not wisely) and perfected the resemblance to Hrithik Roshan in all departments but the most important. His acting lags leagues behind. Here's a tip Harman: spending a little more time on your character, performance, emotions and dialogue delivery might just brighten up your future.

In Mumbai 2050, Baweja senior creates an impressive special effects vehicle for a range of unabashed product placements from software to apparel to gaming and so on. The product that benefits most from this sieve of a screenplay is visual effects. That is one major reason for this boring, unending, emotionally vacant saga to earn some points.

Omung Kumar's art direction and the creative vision of the visual effects team combine to present an imaginative perspective on futuristic Mumbai, with flying cars (remember Luc Besson's The Fifth Element), a robot teddy bear and floating performance stages (very cool idea).

Apparently there are 1,297 visual effect shots in the film which only partially, and latter, compensate for some of the worst dialogues (Mayur Puri) heard in recent times. As for the screenplay, it is reminiscent of 1985's Robert Zemeckis directed Back to the Future, compounded by the mad scientist — Boman Irani — (not a patch on Christopher Lloyd). 

Why Karan decides to travel into the future rather than four days into the past to save the love of his life Sana is beyond comprehension. And who is this ambitious evil masked scientist introduced suddenly?

Why are two children hanging around and where will the time machine travel next? Hopefully to the time when screenplay, story and the ability to act mattered. In 2050 at least Priyanka Chopra can get away with red hair and a sexy spray-on white bodysuit. Besides the well-choreographed and somewhat hummable Milo na milo, the songs offer an opportunity to slip into a semi-slumber