Yeh Dooriyan song sets the stage for the movie. By watching this one song itself, you can almost tell that the movie, at the very least, will not be a junk movie. And the movie turned out to be good - great music, decent story, and great visuals and manages to draw you into the movie a little bit.
The casting was great. The girl who acts as yesteryear's Saif's love, was picked very appropriately - new face, not super glamourous but very pretty. If that same movie was remade in Telugu, I am sure they will go for some conventional heroine who has already done lots of skin-flicks. These are the kinds of things that turn-off/turn-on the viewer's belief in a story.
The following is the kind of thing that Love Aaj Kal avoids - the heroine Shreya does the role of a very conservative Telugu/Tamil girl in Sivaji. The hero falls for her basically for this reason only. However the eminent director Shankar has made her don clothes exactly the opposite of this image in all the songs...and he spent crores doing that. He had not done this in Oke Okkadu with Manisha Koirala luckily. Something as blatant a contradiction as that makes it hard for audiences to really take the movie seriously. Once something like that happens, the audiences resign themselves to go through the motions....
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