Love Story Mania!

I guess the " Love Story" mania hasn't completely gone yet. On and off I keep watching some of the most romantic episodes of "Love Story" to keep me going. Probably after ages I've seen brilliant TV program in the making which took away all my sleep. Now that this is the era of "saas-bahu" sagas you don't get to watch very many different work like this one. After all it has been directed by one of the best Directors-Anurag Basu and probably he knew how to extract the best out of the two.

The cast in the serial is just perfect. Don't think anyone else would have fitted so perfectly like Akash & Shruti aka Mishal Raheja & Payal Sarkar. On the same note I would be doing injustice to my blog if I don't mention about the other two characters in the serial "Bhatti" aka Rohan Tiwari and "Dev" aka Ajay Chaudhari who contributed equally in making the serial so successful. In addition to it Harsh Chaya ( Rohit) and Rupa Ganguly ( Ritu) were fabulous too & they did justice to the role they played in the serial as Akash's mom and dad. Every character in this serial is portrayed beautifully and made it look so natural as if its hapenning in front of us and we can relate to it. I think the next best natural actor and actress in Bollywood after Kajol and SRK would be Mishal Raheja and Payal Sarkar. The way they played their character depicts as if its them in their real life, looks like they had to put no effort to bring out the charactered person ( which is even harder) . It is linked to our lives. The storyline is indeed different and creative. Contains fun, romance, drama, suspense and action. Specially when they show Hindu College and what usually happens or what one goes through in college life. Typical college environment. I get nostalgic and reminds me of my days in Miranda House....after all its the same North Campus.

The story goes like this : Akash who hails from a broken family is very reserved, rowdy at times, has 2 friends Bhatti and Dev and he doesn't know anything beyond them. If he sees that his friends are in trouble, he immediately gets into a fight or if he sees that a Rickshaw wala is beaten for no reason then he makes sure that the person pays for it. Not a bad guy though. Is a back bencher, loves to drink tea several times in a day and above all "hates" injustice. On the other hand Shruti is bubbly, young and energetic...falls in love with Akash who happens to be her senior and she's extremely expressive about her love for him. Great chemistry between the two. This romance soon turns out into drawn out fight for power and love. Personalities clash, egos are tested and relationship strained, all owing to this love affair. The innocence of love and its growth is well defined in the story.

The songs from the serial are already a hit specially "Teri Yaadein" and the title song "Tujhe Main Dhoondhta Phiru"

But what I didnt like is the ending of the serial with Dev killing himself...could have been better with Rohit finding Dev as the killer of Shruti's brother-Kunal and may be giving him Life Imprisonment and Akash, Shruti and Bhatti living happily ever after! Well those were my thoughts on the ending but the Director did what best suited the story!

Love Story worked not only for youngsters but for parents and family as well. I still remember the word by Akash's father which speaks in volumes - "to live inside the bars of prison is a much easier job but to live in a society and still live happily is a much difficult job to do"