Loveyapa movie review: Love in times of Tinder

LoveyapaUa Romance comedyDir Advait ChandanCast Junaid Khan Khushi KapoorRating 35Loveyapa is a romcom about a modern couple in their earlymid20s set to get married The only conjugal hurdle is they swap their cellphone for some time firstIrsquod deem this highly unadvisable Itrsquos a condition set by neither lovebird but by the girlrsquos father Why is that so significantI suspect to truly dig into their prospective partnerrsquos secretlivesmdashthat everybody possesses I suppose besides a public life and a private lifeOnly those secrets somehow or the other get stored in cellphonesmdashfor whatrsquos the phone now if not an extension of your brain but how deep within that should you dive intoItrsquos not that the guy doesnrsquot lock his phone or clean up data periodically Girlrsquos dad Ashutosh Rana is dedhshaanaoversmart He wants to break open the lock retrieve deleted stuffThe pattern password on the locked screen is the letter lsquocrsquo ldquoAs in the Big Crdquo the boy tells his potential fatherinlaw lsquoBig Crsquo is what that dad thinks of the boy anywayWhich gets me to why this film is so poorly titled Loveyapamdashlike the popular expletive with the same C Opens up a bunch of terrible puns to do with this picthatrsquos allMaybe itrsquos still better than the Tamil Love Today 2022 which could be a magazine from the India Today group that this film is an official remake ofEither way the effort here is to keep things suitably statusquoPG13 and simplemdashaimed at wider audiences between smaller towns and bigger citiesWherein the lovedup couple while surely dating for long havenrsquot even kissed To be fair both have a past too but sleeping around appears to have been totally out of the questionI donrsquot know to what extent does Loveyapa reveal lives of GenZ in the times of Tinder Bumble Snap Pure Instahellip Itrsquos still very much a movie reflecting the world we livelove inAs the motherrsquos character puts it here the phone equals choices And that includes being with so many people at the same timeOffline families in this lsquofamily filmrsquo make for fine frames starting with the tenderly hilarious Ashutosh as the latterday lsquoAmrish Purirsquo something he played just as well in Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania 2014 obviously inspired by Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge 1995Therersquos also the customary hero ke friends with hardly any lives of their own but the herorsquos The focus is on the main couple As would be natural for a romanceDo the leads in Loveyapa yap throughout No Theyrsquore rather restrained in fact Energy is hardly their strong suit But theyrsquore pleasant enough to shoulder an unpretentious story on the lives of Delhirsquos accentneutral middleclass youngIrsquom obviously referring to Junaid Khan 31 and Khushi Kapoor 24 Their Bollywood pedigree is wellknownmdashAamir Khanrsquos son Sridevirsquos daughter Theyrsquore like neither parent onscreen Which might be a good thing to avoid obvious comparisonsBoth had derisked their film debuts appearing first on Netflix Maharaj 2024 for Junaid that was a much better subject to do with an episode from Bombayrsquos history than a feature film per se Khushi played Betty Cooper in The Archies 2023 which was by all accounts hardly a popular hitGod knows Indian cinema needs a full constellation of young stars to replace top leads touching 60 Do you sense a sizzling bigscreen chemistry since romantic movies are really where traditional cinema heroesheroines get blooded firstWell I donrsquot know You like these two alright sufficiently sweet goodlooking rsquon all The film in its run up doesnrsquot show how crazy theyrsquore about each othermdashwhich would be essential for audiences to root for them to get together eventuallySometimes familiarity with the soundtrack helps with this genre to click in the head while yoursquore in the hall I hadnrsquot heard any song besides the title track perhapsThe lack of all which makes this a movie more about the phone than love This isnrsquot to suggest the cellphone isnrsquot central to our lives and its potential conflicts Itrsquos a really important contemporary subject no doubtThatrsquos also whyhow Love Todaymdashldquostory screenplay dialogue lyrics directionrdquo by Pradeep Ranganathan whorsquos also the frickinrsquo lead actor in the original therefore deserves all credit for this remakemdashwas the sleeperblockbuster of that year apparently made at R5 crore topped Rs 100 crore at the boxofficeTherersquos a fine line in that film delivered by the father which kinda explains why romantic films romcoms being my favourite genre went through an existential crisis circa 2000 onwardsHe says ldquo20 years ago only one out of 10 couples would end up marrying Rest of them got separated by their parents The numbers are the same today But now parents donrsquot separate the couples You guys do it yourselvesrdquoAs you can tell from my fresh memory I watched Love Today on Netflix right after Loveyapa in the theatre Basically I watched the same film twice You must watch either Personally I prefer theatres

Loveyapa movie review: Love in times of Tinder

Loveyapa
U/a: Romance, comedy
Dir: Advait Chandan
Cast: Junaid Khan, Khushi Kapoor
Rating: 3/5

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Loveyapa movie review: Love in times of Tinder

LoveyapaU/a: Romance, comedyDir: Advait ChandanCast: Junaid Khan, Khushi KapoorRating: 3/5

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Loveyapa
U/a: Romance, comedy
Dir: Advait Chandan
Cast: Junaid Khan, Khushi Kapoor
Rating: 3/5