Love Aaj Kal

Love Aaj Kal
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Directed by	Imtiaz Ali
Produced by	Saif Ali Khan Dinesh Vijan
Written by	Imtiaz Ali
Starring	Saif Ali Khan Deepika Padukone Rishi Kapoor Giselli Monteiro
Music by	Songs: Pritam Background Score: Salim-Sulaiman
Cinematography	Natarajan Subramaniam
Edited by	Imtiaz Ali Aarti Bajaj
Production company	Illuminati Films
Distributed by	Eros International
Release date	31 July 2009 (2009-07-31)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹48 crore (US$7.1 million)
Box office	₹120 crore (US$18 million)

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Love Aaj Kal (English: Love Nowadays) is a 2009 Indian romantic comedy-drama film starring Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone in lead roles with Rahul Khanna, Rishi Kapoor and Giselli Monteiro in supporting roles. The film is directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Saif Ali Khan and Dinesh Vijan. The film portrays the feeling of pure love which never changes, although the perspective of realising one's soulmate has changed over time. Although there was a lot of pre-release speculation that the film was a remake of the 2005 Taiwanese film, Three Times, post-release reviews have proven that this is not the case. This film was remade into Telugu as Teen Maar with Pawan Kalyan and Trisha Krishnan in lead roles.

Jai and Meera are a modern-day couple living in London. They are happy with each other, but do not believe in tying each other down so when career beckons, they have a mutual break-up, but remain friends. Meera goes to India, while Jai stays in London, hoping to be called to San Francisco, where working at the Golden Gate Inc. is his dream job. Jai begins to date a blonde named Jo, while Meera returns the feelings of her boss, Vikram. The couple believes they have moved on.

Running simultaneously, but set in the past, is the tale of Veer Singh. A great believer of love, the Sikh narrates his love story to Jai to try to convince him not to let Meera go from his life. He explains how he fell for a girl named Harleen. Jai ridicules Veer, who vowed to marry Harleen before he had even gotten to talk to her. But, on Veer's insistence, he agrees to pay Meera a surprise visit in India. Meera is stunned, and the two lie to both Jo and Vikram to spend time with each other. They realize how much they still like each other's company. Jai and Jo break up as Jai is unable to reciprocate the deeper feelings that Jo longs for. On the day Jai is to leave, Vikram proposes to Meera. She meets Jai secretly, who tells her she should make a decision. Angry, Meera tells him to leave her life or else she will never be able to really move on. Parallel to this, we find that Harleen has told Veer she was engaged without being told, and he must leave her.