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01 / 6Imtiaz Ali’s Socha Na Tha has characters which are totally relatable
Be it a confused lover Viren Oberoi (played by Abhay Deol), or a girl who loses her love to another--Karen (played by Apoorva Jha), the characters are one amongst us. Most of us had to make a choice between what we thought was love, and we felt as love. The debut movie of Imtiaz as a director, Socha Na Tha is a romantic comedy which could have been the story of any young guy who is a novice at the matters related to heart.
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02 / 6The imperfect but perfect love story of Imtiaz Ali’s Jab We Met
A happy-go-lucky girl meets a man who has given up on life and happiness, and teaches him how to live and love--Geet and Aditya are those people who are all around us. From unrequited love and broken hearts to happy endings, one can instantly connect to the every aspect of the story. You can feel your first heartbreak in Anshuman’s rejection, and see the beauty of love in how Aditya starts seeing the life from the eyes of Geet.
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03 / 6The complicacies of love and career in Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal
A young couple who mutually breaks for the sake of building a career and later realizes that nothing can satisfy them as each other’s company, Jai and Meera are every new age couple who are too busy in building a career that they forget to create a life. There hastiness in moving on with other people is exactly how most people treat relationships these day.
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04 / 6The pain of a heartbreak in Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar
How far can one go to achieve his dreams? Rockstar makes everyone ponder on that question. Janardhan Jakhar’s story from getting his heart broken to the fever of stardom, to the pain of losing his love, reflects the phases of each life in a different light. The struggle to make a name and to handle the fame is a constant in every life, and rockstar brings it forth beautifully.
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05 / 6The struggle to find one’s own identity in Imtiaz Ali’s Tamasha
The fight between choosing one’s own dreams and what the family and society deem right is a constant in each youngster’s life. Many times the person has to sacrifice one’s own happiness to merge in the society. Tamasha beautifully shows how it affects a person emotionally. The movie says what everyone hesitates in admitting--everyone is playing a character, acting being someone who they actually are not.
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06 / 6The taste of freedom in Imtiaz Ali’s Highway
Sometimes all the privileges in the world can’t make a person happy, but getting away from them, being the prisoner of situations does the trick. The movie shows the dark pasts and complicated presents of both Veera and Mahabir. Highway is the grey between or black and white lives.
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In Pics: 6 movies by birthday boy Imtiaz Ali which are the mirror image of our own lives and stories
Cinema is a way of life and the movies are the elixir which transfuse it from the celluloid to the audience. Cinema started as a larger than life experience for the most of us, with grand characters and stories. But with time it evolved in a finer form which resonated with the audience on some different levels. Characters from the surroundings became the protagonists of the movies. Imtiaz Ali is one amongst the few directors who have evolved this form of cinema and has given several fantastic movies, which speak our stories in their language.