Is Sara Kartik Aryan’s Best Co-star So Far?

The comfort-level between Kartik Aryan and Sara Ali Khan in Love Aaj Kal is  being talked-about everywhere.At promotional  events he  can be seen  feeding her with his own hands, carrying her  in his arms, pampering her, laughing at her (bad) jokes…Whether  they are a real-life  pair or not is not  the poin. They LOOK comfortable with one another and that’s  a push up  for Kartik who  has never looked comfortable  with his  co-stars. Here’s a lowdown

1.     Nushrat Bharucha: From the  10 films  Kartik has done so  far, 4 have been with  Nushrat Bharucha, and  in none of  them  did they look comfortable together. There is  a reason for this. In all the films Kartik did  with Nushrat Pyar Ka Punchnaama, its sequel, Akash Vani and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety  , Kartik was at  loggerheads with  Nushrat .In the  two Punchnaama films she  bullied him mercilessly, In Akash Vani she married  another man and  lived to regret  it . And In Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Kartik and Nushrat fought  over Sunny Singh.Ha ha.

2.     Meher Mistry: Bet you  didn’t know that Kartik Aryan  featured as  a young Muslim tailor secretly in love with a lonely wife  in a shortfilm in 2015 entitled Silvat   directed  by Tanuja Chandra.? Again  this was  film about the absence  of love . Not even a cuddle with his co-star Meher Mistry.

3.     Kriti Sanon: This was  the first time Kartik  got a  chance to display some genuine chemistry with a co-star, the first time when he kissed and  cuddled and did other cute lover’s  things with a  co-star.  I saw more chemistry between Kartik and  Kriti than I had seen  between Kriti and  Sushant Singh Rajput when they paired screen in the disastrous Raabta during their real-life affair.

4.     Ananya Pandey:  Pati Patni Aur Woh had no real  chemistry between Kartik and his two heroines. He seemed too much in awe  of  both his  co-stars. Was that the  way the  script had been written? I  saw Kartik sharing  more  kinship with Aparshakti Khurrana  than with either Ananya Pandey and Bhumi Padnekar.

5.      Sara Ali Khan: Love Aaj Kal is the  first film where Kartik is shown to  be a demonstrative lover boy and not  a bickering boyfriend who  can’t hold on to his dreams. There is no holding back here. No coyness. The  lovers are at  each other constantly  cuddling and  bickering. No wonder this on-screen relationship  felt more real to Kartikthan  anything he  has done so far.