Pyaar Impossible Film
Francoise Witsell
At Ankert University, California, Alisha (Priyanka Chopra) is the most beautiful girl on campus, with plenty of admirers. Awkward, nerdy Abhay (Uday Chopra) is in love with her, although she is unaware of his existence. One night, Alisha is partying with her friends and accidentally falls into a river. Abhay jumps in and rescues her from drowning, but her friends take her away before she regains consciousness. Abhay is further prevented from seeing Alisha the next day when her outraged father comes and removes her from college.
Abhay nurses dreams of uniting with Alisha for seven years as he moves on with his life. He invents a revolutionary software program that cross integrates all operating systems. He meets with an investor to try to sell it, and he excuses himself to call his father and ask for advice. While he is gone, the investor copies the files onto a drive and steals them. Abhay discovers that this investor is unscrupulous software salesman Siddharth 'Siddhu' Singh (Dino Morea), and he is now marketing the stolen software to a Singaporean firm as his own invention. Abhay goes to Singapore to confront Siddhu and sees Alisha at the company headquarters where she works as its PR representative. Still besotted, he follows her home. Due to a misunderstanding, she mistakes him for a nanny she was expecting from an employment agency. She is divorced from an unruly daughter named Tanya (Advika Yadav) and in search of another nanny, as Tanya drives everyone away. Abhay decides to become Tanya's nanny and keeps his identity a secret to stay close to Alisha.
Abhay takes care of the house mostly by paying contractors to clean it and he eventually wins over Tanya when he buys her the Rockband video game so she can become a rockstar. Tanya nicknames him "Froggy" because of his nerdy looks. Things become complicated when Siddhu shows up trying to romance Alisha and sells the stolen software to her company. Abhay finds out that Siddharth's real name is Varun Sanghvi and tries to hide from Varun even while he grows closer to Alisha. She confides in Abhay, and he dresses her up in glasses and old clothes to show her how differently people are treated when they appear to be unattractive. Alisha feels sorry for Abhay.
As the launch date for the software approaches, Abhay is unmasked by Varun who claims he is a delusional stalker and was never a nanny. Alisha is angry that he lied and orders Abhay out of the house without giving him a chance to explain.
She finds out from her daughter that Abhay is the mysterious person who rescued her in college; she realizes that when Abhay told her about the girl he loved in college for seven years, he was talking about her.
Alisha finds Abhay and apologizes to him saying that she has fallen in love with him. Abhay tells her that he created the software Varun is taking the credit for. They rush to the software launch to stop Varun who is easily discredited when he doesn't know the password to Abhay's software. Abhay is able to prove that it is his creation by entering the password. Abhay tells Alisha that she already knows the password: it is her name: A-L-I-S-H-A. Alisha and Abhay live happily with Tanya.
Conversely, Frank Lovece of Associated Press wrote, "Despite a few cute moments, the beauty-and-the-geek tale "Pyaar Impossible!" is a vanity project that shows that while love may or may not be impossible, nepotism is eternal."[5] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave the film 1 out of 5, writing, "How do you watch a film you know will pan out exactly as you think it will from its first frame? By sitting stoically through Pyar Impossible."[6]
This Valentine's week, Kriti Sanon and Shahid Kapoor will unite for an "impossible love story." The actors shared the official poster of their upcoming romantic film and also revealed its title, on Wednesday. The film is titled Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya. The poster features the film's lead pair Kriti Sanon and Shahid Kapoor lovingly posing together. The caption accompanying the poster read, "This Valentine's week, experience an impossible love story! Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya. in cinemas 9th February, 2024. A Maddock Films production." The film marks Kriti Sanon and Shahid Kapoor's first collaboration.
Shahid Kapoor was last seen in the action thriller Bloody Daddy. He also starred in Raj and DK's crime thriller series Farzi. Before that, he featured in the sports drama Jersey, in which he played the role of a cricketer. The original film was made in Telugu and it starred Nani in the lead role. He will also star in a film with Pooja Hegde, titled Deva.
Last week, in the blog for my class on the sacrament of marriage, I addressed how pornography has malformed the imagination of most Catholics, making it difficult for the gift of love intrinsic to the spousal relationship to take place. I also suggested that the Catholic sacramental theology of marriage, linked to narrative and practices, offers a renewal of the imagination for the pornographic age. Yet, what is the pornographic imagination? And why is it such a problem?
I want to suggest that the pornographic imagination is not simply reducible to the media of pornography itself. Instead, it is the constant temptation to reduce the human being (my "beloved") to an object of my personal experience. To turn them into an object simply existing for my personal delight. Although Jean-Luc Marion, the French Catholic philosopher, does not talk about pornography per se, his account of love in Prolegomena to Charity is helpful for defining this imagination.
Love, for Marion, should be about the other. But that's difficult. When I love someone, I have a deeply conscious, lived experience of the act of being in love. I see the other before me. I am attracted by the other. And for this reason, it becomes nearly impossible for me to determine whether I'm in love with that person as she exists or if I'm simply in love with the lived experience of that person. Marion asks the question: is all love really pornographic, about my own personal experience of such love?
For Marion, the answer to this question takes place as we consider the role of the eyes in the loving encounter. Think about every romantic comedy that one has seen (Marion, it should be said, does not talk often about romantic comedy). The key moment of the comedy is when the couple-to-be looks into each other's eyes. What are they looking at? Why is this moment of the gaze so important to such films?
In some ways, the person is looking at nothing! To stare at someone's eyes is simply to see a black pupil staring back. It's not like looking at someone's body where you can see their clothes, where you can smell their perfume or cologne, where you can see the beauty of the flesh.
Looking at someone's eyes is not like any of these experiences. But importantly, these eyes become for me an encounter with someone's very person. The gaze of the person looks back at me, making it nearly impossible for me to treat this person simply as flesh for my personal enjoyment. In some ways, what I look at when gazing at another's eyes is not visible to me.
But, of course, this act of gazing is an experience. This experience is not simply another person's eyes that gaze upon me (this is called creepiness). In love, I offer the return gaze of love in return. I give my person to another through looking. I share in this communion of the eyes.
This gaze transforms me into a person. And in this sense, love is not about a fully conscious experience. It is instead an encounter with the other, who names me for what I am: a person in need of love. The person is not an object for my delight. Rather, "true love" is not something I even see. It is invisible because it is the tension that exists between these gazes. This tension commits me to this person, requiring me to offer a return gift of self based upon their gaze. We share a communion of need with one another.
Marion's analysis of love shows us ultimately what's wrong with dating at a university like Notre Dame. The primary place where underclassmen experience "dating" is at the dorm party (which at my college is not officially sanctioned but is part of campus culture). At this party, the gaze is rendered impossible. Lights are too low for anyone to see another person. Music is too loud for anyone to hear the voice of the beloved. Dancing is about grinding upon the body of another, rather than a face-to-face encounter. Alcohol eliminates the functioning of one's senses, making it impossible to see the face of the other. The dorm party blinds us from seeing anything but the flesh to be consumed. It renders love impossible. It is formative of what I'm calling the pornographic imagination.
In this sense, one way that Catholic colleges and universities (such as my own) might foster relationships that lead to love is to eliminate the dorm party as it currently exists. Loud music, darkness, massive number of human beings, cheap beer. Get rid of it.
Instead, if undergraduates want to have parties, they should have to be small. They should not disturb their neighbor. They should foster conversation. They should lead to face-to-face encounters instead of rubbing one's bodies against each other. They should have decent alcohol, expensive enough that it encourages conversation rather than binge drinking. In this way, authentic love becomes possible rather than simply an encounter of two bodies, looking to satiate their own desires. New practices renew the imagination. Who of you ever thought that Jean-Luc Marion could help us shape residence life policy?
After flexing those unnaturally large muscles (and pout) in Neal 'n' Nikki, wrecking his best friend's wedding in Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi and posing as a tapori sidekick to Abhishek Bachchan in Dhoom capers, Uday Chopra is now trying his hand at a quintessential geek in love with the hottest girl ever in director Jugal Hansraj's Pyaar Impossible.
Like Salman Khan, he too has been bitten by the writing bug, and has scripted the tried and tested plot of this rom-com. While Priyanka Chopra provides the starry attraction, the latest Yashraj offering boasts of music from its current favourites Salim-Sulaiman.
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