Imtiaz Ali

The life of a man with borderline personality disorder is relived in three stages: as a nine-year-old child, a 19-year-old adolescent and a 30-year-old adult. Exotic island, youthful abandon, far far away, Ved and Tara - a story begins. Ved has grown up among stories. As a kid in Simla, he would collect money, even steal money so that the old storyteller would tell him stories. Ved wants his story with Tara to be different. So they decided to not tell each other who they are, to only lie about themselves and after returning from the island to never meet again. But they do meet again.

A depressed middle-aged tour guide who lives in his own bubble gets another chance to experience and face reality through a chirpy girl. The story revolves around Harry and Sejal's journey across Europe. A search for Sejal's engagement ring makes Harry understand love and relationships better. Sejal experiences new found freedom, security and solace in Harry's company and in between all of this - there is love, life, lies, thrill, fantasy and the search for the voice within... "Have you found what you are looking for?"

Love Aaj Kal is a romantic comedy that segues into a drama, taking a more sophisticated approach and allowing for real emotional development, something we don't get too much of from the generic Bollywood product, what with Indian cinema so hooked on sweeping over-the-top romances.

Aditya (Shahid Kapur), a defeated industrialist, is even more broken as the girl he loves is getting married. Unable to muster up the courage to return home, he drifts out of the gathering and aimlessly boards a train, bounding away into the night. As destiny would have it, on the train he meets Geet (Kareena Kapoor) a beautiful but annoyingly talkative girl who is leaving Mumbai to go her hometown Bhatinda (Punjab). Later, she has plans of eloping with her boyfriend. Geet irritates Aditya to the point of getting him to leave the train.