Simran loves Bollywood romances so much so that her life has begun to resemble one. With her awesome job as an art director in films and a "Mr. Perfect" fianc, Raj, she lives a dreamy life. But then comes Jay, who brings a fresh joy into her life. Jay is an assistant to a director who is famous for his love story films, but Jay himself is repulsed to romances and is a firm disbeliever of love. He initially chides Simran for her obsession with romance, and Simran also has a bad impression of him, but soon after, the two become friends while working on Veer's next movie.
Jay finds that her absence in his life upsets him and realizes that he has fallen in love with her. He plans a romantic dinner, asking Simran to meet him. He admits that he loves her but this time, she rejects him, as she does not want to hurt Raj's feelings after giving him another chance. A heartbroken Jay tries to accept the fact that he has lost Simran to Raj. However, Jay's friends and his mother persuade him to not give up on Simran. Jay tries to make Simran jealous but soon realizes that manipulating her feelings will hurt her even more.
Meanwhile, Raj proposes to Simran, and she accepts. But Simran realizes she doesn't love Raj, and tells him so. She goes to the movie premiere, where she hopes to meet Jay. On the other hand, Jay is leaving, as he has given up all hopes of being with Simran. At the airport, he talks to his mother and she again asks him not to give up. Encouraged, Jay runs back to the premiere. He finds Simran outside the theatre and the two express their love for each other and hug, finally getting their happy ending.
Among Indian critics, Sukanya Verma of Rediff praised the lead performances and rated the movie 3.5/5 saying, "It's Sonam and Imran's collective persona and their free-flowing chemistry that makes all the difference. Although the pair deserve better than an amateurishly written romance to scoop out their terrific potential as a combination".[8] Gaurav Malani of IndiaTimes rated the movie 3/5 and said, "If you hate love stories this one's certainly not for you. Which means this ends up being another love story and that too a dull one!"[9] Nikhat Kazmi of Times of India also praised the lead performances, but found the plot predictable and rated the movie 3/5 saying, "Thematically, I Hate Luv Storys is extremely simplistic, uni-layered and terribly predictable."[10]
Kelsea Ballerini is undoubtedly in love. She married fellow country singer Morgan Evans in December. However, as much as the newlywed loves being in love, she hates love songs enough to write a song about it.
Ballerini will perform her new single "I Hate Love Songs" on the 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday night. She said the performance is soaked in glitter and is the biggest production she's ever had on an awards show. It's an important moment in her career and at the center of it is a song that almost didn't happen.
Ballerini had written 200 songs for her album "Unapologetically" and she thought she was finished. She had three co-writing appointments left before she had to turn in the project when she met with Trevor Rosen from Old Dominion and hit songwriter Shane McAnally. They asked her what kind of song she needed to round out the album.
"I was like, 'Guys, I think I need another love song, but I hate love songs," Ballerini said. "We all kind of looked at each other and it was that magical moment that you fish for in every co-write, and we just wrote it. it was so fun to make those rhymes bounce like (Dr. Seuss-like) kind of rhymes. It really did write itself."
Personally, I cannot understand romance in movies. They are absolutely non sequitur and take up way too much screen time. Also, romance is used as an unnecessary plot device for creating conflict, because the conflict could have been avoided if the character had just not fallen in love, which to me, is the most totally reasonable thing to do, but apparently not for the character.
I would prefer to see action and scenes where I actually understand what's going on. Also kissing scenes are by far the worse because it's unnecessarily emotional, you get a fucking close up on the couple's lips which is fucking gross, it's taking up precious screentime and the precedence for the kiss never makes sense.
I hate cheesy stuff but that's just me. I love romance if it goes alongside the plot and makes sense/the characters have chemistry, I just don't find it interesting when it IS the plot, or when it seems inorganic. Especially your run of the mill white hetero movies plots. It's almost condescending to hear how difficult and beautiful and unique this epic love story between an upper class white woman and a lower middle class white man is... like come on. Or when two characters are put together simply because... every single movie ever needs a romance plot, I guess? Fuck if I know.
Honestly it doesn't even bother me that it's something I'll never have. I mean, sometimes I feel sad about it (I was watching the episode of The Office last night where Jim and Pam get married), but not that much. Edit: even when I feel sad, it's more that I feel sad that I won't WANT to have it, I really feel no desire to have that, it's not like I feel like I actually want it but just "can't" have it. I'm envious of the characters' ability to want that, not of the fact that they do have it I don't, if that makes sense.
Mostly what pisses me off is the constant assumption that I, personally, must experience romantic and sexual attraction. You can hardly get two feet without somebody assuming that you want sex/romance. I suppose one reason to dislike romance movies is that that feeds into it. You see a romance movie and everyone is going "isn't [main white actor] so hot?? do you wish you could find a guy like that??" NO! I don't lol, and he's not even that great anyway.
I like romance in general and there have been some romance novels that I've liked. It's the fact that our media is over saturated with romance that irritates me. You don't need to pair everyone in every story. We don't need 80% of the music on the radio to be about romance. There are so many other kinds of relationships and dynamics that are interesting to explore but hardly anyone does and that's frustrating. And when every story you hear the motivation for every main character is their love for a significant other, it can make you feel isolated and less human when it's not a motivation in your life.
In movies and TV if it serves a purpose other than just *I feel we need boobs on screen now*. Even GoT has a lot of sex but it's world-building and makes sense to have it most of the time, but in some cases it's like the directors feel they need to have it for the ratings and then it just feels corny so I care not for it.
I would hazard a guess that it's down to the inability (or at least problems) to relate to the subject. Romance stories hardly ever make SENSE to me, because they describe experiences I don't make that way. I have trouble relating to the characters in romance stories/movies or to the emotions described in romantic/sexual songs. I feel the same way about movies/songs that deal with other things I don't enjoy/don't care about.
Add to that the fact that romance is a very common topic. It's like the commercial for a product you don't care about or don't want to have, that keeps coming on again and again, blaring from your radio when you're driving the car, when you're at work or at home, potentially 24/7. I don't hate romance. I don't hate electric tooth brushes, either. Throw them at me with enough persistence and I will get annoyed by either of them.
I don't mind romance songs. I have playlists that contain many of them. I for example quite like Meat Loaf's music. It's full of romance, but the music is good. If it's my own playlist, I don't have to listen to anything romancy if I don't want to at the time. I can always put on something else. At home, with my own music library to call on, I can put on Nightwish's latest album and listen to songs about evolution. My own music collection contains a real lot of non-romance songs, so when in a long playlist the occasional romance song comes on, it doesn't matter.
Radio music is different. You can't skip a song you find annoying. Most of the time, it's not even my radio, but someone else, so I can't go turn it off. You have to listen to the same couple of songs over and over again because they're popular at the time. Most popular songs seem to be about romance. Songs about friendship, family, or just other things in life, like traveling, hobbies, heck, the weather or whatever, are very rare in comparison. It's like the commercial. It gets repetitive. And after a while, it gets tiring in its repetitiveness.
I realize that the large majority of people are neither ace nor aro (or frickin' close to it). I am aware that most people can relate to these songs/plots, and that to them it doesn't feel alien. I also realize that if you remove the feeling of being unable to really relate, the topic is most likely not near as annoying. I could probably listen to friendship songs non-stop, because I value friendship very much. The large majority of people values romance a lot: it's an important part of their experience in life. Same goes for sex. For most people, it's normal and important in their life. It makes sense that it's in movies and songs a lot. It's in people's lives a lot!
Just not in mine. To me, these common things are of little to no interest. It is a natural consequence that I get tired of them and catch myself thinking "geez, not that again", but most people don't feel that way. I'm (or we, as aces and arospec people) are the odd ones out. Probably you hear so much whining about it here on AVEN because it's a safe space for a minority. Here, you know a lot of users make the same or similar experience to you, so it's a good place to vent.
I don't mind a well constructed romance story where you care for the characters and their relationship, so I'm more likely to enjoy watching it in a tv series. Having romance randomly added to action films or whatever is just jarring though, there's no need for it.
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