Kisses and butt grabbing not vulgar in ‘Love Aaj Kal’

The intimate scenes between Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone in Love Aaj Kal won’t offend family audiences, says director Imtiaz Ali .

The promo of the movie is getting a lot of attention because it shows eye-grabbing stuff like Saif trying to hold Deepika's butt or sharing an unabashed kiss with her in the car and also cussing Hinglish expletives on a date.

But the director is not worried. He says the promo packs all that is ‘objectionable’ in the film.
“Kisses included, nobody will feel inhibited watching ‘Love Aaj Kal’. No one will hesitate walking into the film with his family. All that is potentially objectionable in the film in the strictest of sense has been taken care of in the first promo. If you have warmed up on it, rest assured you will love Love Aaj Kal,” Ali is quoted as saying by IANS.

In fact, there were certain people in the production team who thought the overt promos might give a wrong impression about the movie, but Ali differs with them.

“They thought that people may get an impression that the film was only about these things but I had my own viewpoint…My argument is that audiences are really smart. They pretty much see the intention of the filmmaker and make up their mind to watch the film accordingly,” Ali explains.

The movie has Saif and Deepika in dual roles as the story is set in two time periods. In the first roles, Saif and Deepika play Jai and Meera, a modern-day couple in London. They are very happy together but do not believe in tying each other down. In the second time period, in the Calcutta of 1965, they play a Punjabi couple Veer and Harleen.

Ali also goes on to reveal that ‘Love Aaj Kal’ is primarily aimed at youth and family crowds.

“The film caters to them mainly because it's this age group that goes and sees films in theatres. Due to this, even when I am conceptualizing a film and then putting it on celluloid, I feel safe from my target audience perspective,” Ali said.