Love at Times Square

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Love at Times Square
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Poster
Directed by Dev Anand
Written byDev Anand
Produced byDev Anand
StarringDev Anand
Shoib Khan
Heene Kaushik
Chaitanya Choudhury
Satish Shah
Ketki Dave
Ashish Vidyarthi
Vikram Gokhale
Music by Rajesh Roshan
Lucky Ali
Adnan Sami
Distributed by T-Series
Release date
  • 14 February 2003 (2003-02-14)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹2.50 crore [1]
Box office₹29.88 lakh [1]

Love at Times Square is a 2003 Indian film directed by Dev Anand starring Himself Shoib Khan, Chaitanya Chaudhary and Heene Kaushik. The film had special appearances by Salman Khan and Rishi Kapoor.

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Plot

Sweety is the daughter of a billionaire Indian Shaan. The girl's father organizes a musical concert at Times Square where she comes across two young boys: Raj and Bobby. Raj is a computer engineer and works in Silicon Valley whereas Bobby, who is a middle class person, has come to the US in order to earn a bright future. Sweety is pursuing her studies in Mass Communication in the US. Both boys fall in love with the same girl.

Sweety drives from New York City to San Jose with Raj to meet her father and on the way, Raj falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Bobby starts work under her father, also in love with Sweety. Both men propose marriage to her but Sweety declines, unsure about love.

Eventually, she falls in love with Bobby after he saves her from a bad guy. On New Year's Eve, one year after their initial meeting, Sweety chooses Bobby and the two get engaged.

Cast

Music

Lyrics were written by Javed Akhtar and music was composed by Lucky Ali, Rajesh Roshan and Adnan Sami.Lucky Ali and Adnan Sami also gave his voice for the songs.

  1. "Aaja Aaja" - Adnan Sami
  2. "Aisa Ho Koi" - Kavita Krishnamurthy
  3. "Raat Hai Jawan (Aaja Aaja Sad Version)" - Adnan Sami
  4. "Sapna Ho" - Sonu Nigam, Vijeta Pandit
  5. "Sote Sote" - Lucky Ali, Sapna Mukherjee
  6. "Woh Ladka Aisa Hoga" - Udit Narayan, Abhijeet, Jaspinder Narula
  7. "Yahan Pyar Me Dhadke Dil" - Alka Yagnik (composed by Rajesh Roshan)
  8. "Ye Raste Yeh Masti" - Kavita Krishnamurthy, Lucky Ali

Reception

In India, Sify criticized for poor writing and plot as well as poor acting by the newcomers. The direction of scenes in New York and transitions between scenes were also criticized. [2] Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film 1 out of 5, writing ″Even the September 11 incident has no relevance to the story and has been forced to the screenplay. The climax is also an absolute letdown. Dev Anand's direction is below the mark. Though the idea of depicting a love story on a New Year eve is different, the execution leaves a lot to be desired.″ [3]

In US, Dave Kehr of The New York Times wrote that "The good cheer of Love at Times Square is relentless, and given the film's 155-minute running time, occasionally oppressive". [4] Mark Holcomb of The Village Voice wrote ″It takes an abundance of nerve or an impressive miscalculation of vision to situate the guileless, frenzied glitz of a Bollywood musical in gloomy NYC. Both seem to motivate octogenarian Indian auteur Dev Anand's Love at Times Square, which mixes bourgeois moralizing with chaste rom-com shenanigans and song-and-dance numbers that would make the Solid Gold dancers weep with envy. Anand plays a self-described "compassionate Silicon Valley billionaire" whose daughter, Sweety, contends with dual suitors in pseudo-swank Manhattan (or a Calcutta soundstage facsimile thereof). When the pressure mounts, she pops over to Dad's spray-paint-and-pasteboard San Jose mansion—which appears to be about a day's drive from midtown—to belt out a tune or two. Anand manages to work in shamelessly exploitative September 11 footage between numbers, but aside from this sequence, Love couldn't be more giddily benign.″ [5] Megan Lehmann of New York Post gave the film 1.5 out of 4, writing ″This blithe inattention to authenticity is perversely endearing, and the whole (overlong) shebang is so jolly and well-intentioned, that it's kind of fun. It's just not very good film-making.″ [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Love at Times Square – Movie". Box Office India.
  2. ↑ "Love at Times Square". Sify . Archived from the original on 19 August 2022.
  3. ↑ Hungama, Bollywood. "Love At Times Square Review 1/5 | Love At Times Square Movie Review | Love At Times Square 2003 Public Review | Film Review".
  4. ↑ Kehr, Dave (14 February 2003). "FILM IN REVIEW; 'Love at Times Square'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Holcomb, Mark (19 February 2003). "Tracking Shots". The Village Voice . Archived from the original on 16 December 2003.
  6. ↑ Lehmann, Megan (14 February 2003). "FILM IN REVIEW; 'Love at Times Square'". New York Post. Archived from the original on 2 April 2003.
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