While the Tamil version of Love Today was directed by the film’s leading man Pradeep Ranganathan, the remake, drastically removed from the original, is directed by Aamir Khan’s favourite contemporary director Advait Chandan who has tweaked the original rigorously and sensibly for a pan-India audience.
Indeed the Hindi remake is not only a marked improvement on the original, Junaid and Khushi are vastly superior to the original actors. They are bound to be the Sophomore Stars of 2025.
Both the newcomers Junaid Khan and Khushi Kapoor in the Hindi remake of the Tamil hit Love Today are actually semi-newcomers who were part of much-hyped but deeply disappointing OTT feature films on Netflix: Khushi was seen in that monstrous misfire The Archies, while Junaid made his debut in Netflix’s ambiguously received Maharaja.
Both are all set for an all-new launch in producer Madhu Mantena’s eagerly anticipated remake of the hit Tamil rom-com Love Today.The original Tamil film was fresh and engaging.It aws almost entirely devoted to doing a savoury probe into the culture of the smartphone . The phone is indeed the central character of the devious plot.
Pradeep Ranganathan who wrote the screenplay based on his own short film App(a) Lock, is a man of ideas. Though saturated in schmaltz sweetness and foreseeable solutions to tangles in the repartee-heavy plot, the screenplay in spite of its filminess(as in filmy and flimsy) succeeds in tearing out a telling point on how pathologically dependent modern relationships have become on the content of one’s phone.
The film aptly begins at a smartphone factory where we see phones being churned out, then moves to a phone outlet where our unlikely hero Pradeep(played by the writer-director) buys a phone for his girlfriend Ivana(Nikitha) who must now find a way to explain the expensive gift to her father.From this common middleclass smartphone-related crisis the narrative constructs a clever if somewhat exaggerated and mildly dystopian plot about the paranoia that love relationships suffer due to the phone.
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