Love Breakups Zindagi Review

Love Breakups Zindagi Review

Film: 'Love Breakups Zindagi'; Cast: Zayed Khan, Dia Mirza, Cyrus Sahukar, Tisca Chopra; Director: Sahil Sangha;

Debutanat director Sahil Sangha's plot are young, suave, trendy and happening, but not annoying you at all. This is the world that the writer Sanyukta Shaikh Chawla also knows well.

Sangha occupies the rom-com subject with confidence, dignity and pride. But luckily, it isn't the arrogant pride of a filmmaker, who thinks he knows it all.

The debutant seems to share our confusion and curiosity about the characters. He seems to explore their world with interested openness, giving them space to grow even as they groan and whine and dine their way through a series of well-written misadventures that never end in an embarrassing deadened.

The tale about Jai (Zayed Khan) who will get rid of his bossy fiancee and Naina (Dia Mirza) will be out of a overpowering association with a man, who loves her but not in the way she yearns to be. You know how it will at last turn out. And yet you get involved with the lives of these mismatched pairs looking for love, warmth and togetherness in a fast-moving world of cut-throat dreams.

Sangha lets the lives of his protagonists take their own time to get to know their hearts and mind. He is in no hurry to tell his tale. The pace is steady and the flow of events, not quite out of the rapid fire round in a quiz show. Cinematographer Aseem Bajaj has shot the characters in warm detail. The cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Chandigarh are never accentuated by the visuals.

There are questions to be answered on what makes the urban relationship an endangered phenomenon. As the characters explore their own befuddled emotions and their misplaced devotions, the narration acquires its own momentum.

Here's a director who is unapologetic about letting his characters speak their hearts out. Sangha keeps intrusive devices such as the background score at a bare minimum.

Love has its own reasons. So does this lovely, aesthetic and decent exploration of love and relationships. The characters speak a language and words that you've probably overheard between couples at cafes and in the lift. There's no straining for effect. As the movie builds to a foregone conclusion (thank god the hasty reunion at the airport is avoided), there is no confession for having adhered to the rudimentary regulations of the rom-com.

Love Breakups Zindagi is a smooth and enduring look at lives that don't seem remake or faked. The film's title says it all. Happily, this juicy slice of urban life delivers its drama with minimum argument and finest insight into how relationships tick and get tweaked in today's troubled times.

Strangely, there isn't a hint of sexual intimacy between the protagonists, or for that matter between the protagonist’s friends, played with confidence by a younger Cyrus Sahukar and an older Tisca Chopra, who discover delayed love.

The characters convey the warmth of a breakfast meeting conducted in the fresh outdoors under mellow winter sunlight. Zayed and Dia are natural. Zayed Khan is a surprise package in this film. Dia's sympathy with her character's inner world is noticeable in her smile and eyes. She is a far better actress in this type rom-com subject.

There are interesting cameos by Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani and Shah Rukh Khan. But that isn't the reason why you'd want to see this sociable movie. Treating his in-love couple with genuine warmth, director Sangha shows confidence and sympathy.

Overall, it is satisfactory film with some freshness.