'Love Aaj Kal (2009)': Here's what you should know before you watch the reboot

Imitiaz Ali's much-awaited romantic drama Love Aaj Kal's trailer finally dropped on YouTube today. Kartik Aaryan-Sara Ali Khan starrer has been making headlines for a very long time as reports of leading actors of film dating started making rounds on internet.

Imitiaz Ali had, almost a decade ago in 2009, helmed a film by same title that starred Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone in lead roles, while new venture of movie stars Saif's daughter Sara Ali Khan alongside  Luka Chuppi actor Kartik Aaryan as lead pair. As new venture of Love Aaj Kal is all set to hit atres, here is a roundup of what Love Aaj Kal (2009) brought to table:

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Love Aaj Kal (2009) movie plot

Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone played main leads in this Imtiaz Ali directorial. Saif essays role of Jai while Deepika essays role of Meera in film and love birds are a modern-day couple residing in London. Both Meera and Jai are happy with each or but do t believe in tying kt.

As y move ahead in life and ir careers progress, y mutually decide to part ways as Meera shifts to India while Jai chooses to stay back in London. After his breakup with Meera, Jai starts dating an American girl named Jo, while Meera catches feelings for her boss, Vikram. 

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Running simultaneously, but set in past, is tale of Veer Singh, essayed by Rishi Kapoor, who is a great believer of love. He narrates his love story to Jai to try to convince him t to let Meera go from his life. He explains how he fell for a girl named Harleen, played by Giselle Monteiro. 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 left stunned with Jai visiting her and both lie to Jo and Vikram about spending time with each or. duo discovers that y still like each or's company and Jai decides to break up with Jo. On day Jai is to leave from India, Vikram proposes to Meera.

Meera secretively meets Jai and he asks her to make a decision. Angry with this, Meera tells him to leave her life so she can move on. Parallel to this, we find that Harleen has told Veer she was engd without being told, and he must leave her.

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Jai gets called for his dream job but he begins to lose interest in it as he finds out that he is t as happy as he thought he would be. Meanwhile, he gets mugged by some thugs and gets beaten up but refuses to give away Meera's picture. He n realises he still loves her and goes back to India and finds out that Meera has left Vikram.

In past, Veer travels to Harleen's house to convince her mor and her mor lets m sneak out of house as two get happily married. In present, Jai and Meera get reunited.

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