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Release Both the much awaited films Aamir Khan’s JAANE TU… YA JAANE NA and Harry Baweja’s LOVE STORY 2050 hit the screens in less than 24 hours. Jaane Tu.. Ya Jaane Na is released with 473 prints worldwide, which includes 282 analog prints, 81 digital screens and 110 prints overseas. It opened in theatres on June 3. While Jaane Tu… is being promoted as Imran’s debut film, his first appearance in front of the camera was with Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander. In that blockbuster, he had played Aamir’s character as a child. Mansoor Khan-helmed QAYAMAT SE QAYAMAT TAK, starring two newcomers Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, was focused on teenage love, with parental opposition acting as an obstacle.

Story JAANE TU… YA JAANE NA is a love story as well, but the execution of the subject makes all the difference to the similar love stories made in the past. Basically it is a simple tale about a group of friends, it focuses on one couple that’s in love, but is in a state of denial. There is a girl rich, tongue-in-cheek, dominant and aggressive and the boy has had a middle class upbringing and is submissive, soft-spoken and calm. Though they are extremely different but both are extremely close to each other. Opposites attract and so do they but not as lovers, as friends. They long for each other’s company and still wonder why close friends and parents believe that they are in love. But they find their respective ‘special someone’ when they realize that love is not about finding a perfect someone, it’s about feeling perfectly happy with an imperfect partner.

Film is an ordinary love story that does not have a great beginning but it picks up as it nears the interval. It is only the casting that has saved the film from being a just another youth film or a campus love story.