I stopped writing about movies for reasons best known to me but there are movies that make me want to write about them. 'Tere Ishq Mein' is one such. I like Anand L. Rai's work but what happens once in a while is that we have an idea in mind that is so subtle that it sometimes does not translate like how we want it to. I feel TIM is one such.
My guess is that the one liner - 'no one after our generation will ever know what it is to love like we do' is the inspiration. And to prove this premise we need two people who love like no other generation can ever. So we have a DUSU (Delhi University Student's Union) President who is very very very angry man inside and a v v v violent one too (like throwing Diwali rockets into crowds of people, beating up bus drivers until they bleed and such other stuff. He is capable of intense stuff you see. Then we have a Psychology student whose thesis is that violence can be cured of people - and therefore finds Mr DUSU student to cure. He asks why he should do that and she is ready to do anything to prove her thesis (including booking a hotel room to give her study a taste of 'fun'). Anyway, her methods to cure his violence include holding him and telling him not to hit people, to remember what she told him which is not to be violent and other such powerful stuff and he finally stops himself from hitting someone while her guides are watching - thus earning her a pass.
OK, there happens a dialogue where she says she will do what she has to do for her work and he will do what he has to do (basically be non violent) because of love. Now how they get into this situation I do not know but slowly she leans more to work and he leans more to her. He reveals his mother's name to her which is a sign of vulnerability but she does not really care because her work is done. I forget now why she visits him at his low class house where his notary filling father and his friend and he are eating dinner (he is eating sambar rice with a spoon for some reason) but she ends up inviting him home to meet her IAS Officer father who lives in a mansion more like a mafia don's and behaves like one. He has some dangerous dogs too which are in the background. Anyway he treats our man badly - our man suddenly has become completely helpless after he has fallen in love - which seems to be the real cure for violence and not her tepid methods. Anyway he becomes completely pliable and also loses his mind - like not knowing what UPSC is and confusing it for CBSE (its a wonder if he knows what DUSU is also). Anyway mafia IAS man behaves like a full mafia don and tells our DUSU President that he can come back after clearing IAS prelims to ask for his daughter's hand. DUSU Pres promises like a good boy that he will come back after clearing prelims and until then he will not be in touch with her. His only condition (like true lovers) is taht she pick up his call when he calls. She agrees.
While our man is trying to figure out what UPSC is and CBSE is and IAS is and such stuff our heroine moves on to find a cute boyfriend confident in her knowledge that DUSU Pres will never clear anything now that he has fallen in love with her and heads off to the USA. Meanwhile our man fails two years and then clears he third year - all because he wants to marry the young lady who does not love him. Somewhere here the boy, his father and friend decide that it is an occasion to buy new clothes as if they have been invited to their engagement and find that they are dressed up - for someone else's engagement! They leave I think.
Anyway our non-violent man comes back when she is getting engaged to her boyfriend and she does not pick up the phone. Angry man turns arsonist and decides to burn the house down because he has told her that if she does not pick up his phone he will burn Delhi down (which he does not - he only burns a few curtains). Anyway cops and fire brigades come and take him away.
Come father of the arsonist and mafia don makes him fall at all his servants feet to apologise for his son's mistake and we all cringe at it but actually he totally deserves it for messing with the IAS don. IAS Don tells him to collect his son who has been beaten black and blue which is also fair since that fellow tried to burn Delhi down. On way back home father tells his son something he never told him all these years - that he wants his son to fly the fastest plane in the sky. Why he never told his son such a nice dream in all these years I do not know but he says that and then decides to show his son that he old Bajaj scooter can ride as fast as a plane and crashes - and dies!
Non violent boy goes to Varanasi with his father's body (that should be an expensive affair - ambulance etc) instead of simply taking the ashes and meets one crazy guy who seems to talk in riddles about Shiva and Mukti and Shankar and Parvati and tells the boy to burn in his love. Something happens after that and suddenly girl falls in love and takes to drinking while boy finds meaning in life - to become a fighter pilot - in fact the best fighter pilot. She becomes an alcoholic pregnant counsellor with the defence academy.
Now the face off - our man has been grounded for disobeying orders and suddenly war had broken out - and we need our best pilot. But hey, he needs clearance from the alcoholic, drug addicted counsellor who is pregnant and deeply in love with the guy she never loved. She doe snot want to sign because if she signs he will fly off and die and if he does not fly her husband will drown and die (he is in a ship you see). Anyway our man will promise like the noble Karna that one will remain - he or her husband and then flies into one solo enemy ship and that ends the war and the film.
How this has proved that love like like will never ever happen for generations ever I did not understand. In fact if this is love it is better that the generations to follow do not subject themselves to it. It has arson, self hate, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, suicidal tendencies, philandering and many such illegal stuff. In the end there is an imaginary scene where she is walking with our man to the fastest plane and his father is dancing in the background! Someone tell me who loves whom and how it is actually being shown - she loves booze, he wants to die - that's what I figured.
Overall, amazing! Like I once wrote a novel because someone wrote a bad novel, I am sure someone will get inspired to make a film after watching this. There are many small details I am forgetting but it is already too long and I feel I have also got it out of my system by writing. Hey, maybe I think I should be the one to write scripts now.
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