Far better than many senseless love stories as it is programmed to make you feel loved despite involving a manmade machine.
'Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya' is directed by Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah. (Supplied)
We live in a digital age where most of our work is done by super-intelligent machines. Speaking of machines, I even filed this review on my smartphone.
One must admit we love these so-called machines – from asking Alexa and Siri or other AI-generated apps to remind us of some work, wake us up, and play our favourite music or turn on the light and whatnot!
With advanced technologies like Apple Vision Pro making it into our lives, soon, we shall be surrounded by these tech gadgets that most of us are bound to miss the real connection with human to human.
Sounds alarming, but by another few decades, machines may rule the world, or are we already being ruled by machines? The only sigh of relief is that we are still making them, and thankfully, some amount of human intervention is still needed to make them.
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya is a wake-up call in many ways. Why so? Let’s login…
Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon. (Supplied)
The system, I mean the film, boots up with Aryan Agnihotri (Shahid Kapoor), a robotics engineer, being tricked into getting married by his family. Soon, he wakes up and finds that it was just another nightmare.
A few scenes later, he attends a board meeting with his aunty Urmila (Dimple Kapadia), who runs an E-Robotics company from the US. She can do so through advanced technology, which makes us feel as if the person is talking to us live.
She invites Aryan to the US to share with him a surprise. Aryan reaches the US but Urmila has urgent work and hence leaves him under the care of Sifra (Kriti Sanon).
In no time, Arya realises that Sirfa is compatible with him and falls in love with her.
Well, Sirfa, too, falls for him. They end up making love. Let me tell you again. It was making love and not having sex!
When Urmila is back, Aryan is in for a shock upon discovering that Sirfa is a robot developed by his aunt and the team. He also learns that she left Sirfa with him for a reason.
However, Urmila does not expect Arya to fall in love with her.
What loads for another two-plus hours is a one-of-a-kind love story between a man and a machine.
Kriti Sanon in as till from ‘Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya’. (Supplied)
The story and the script of Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya make sense to a greater extent, considering that we are already living with robots and super-intelligent machines programmed to do impossible tasks.
Also, it is suspected that several top-class secret missions are on across the globe, where machines are so developed that it is hard to differentiate between humans and machines.
Director Amit Joshi gives such possibilities a romantic twist through cinematic versions where anything is possible but only when it can connect with the audience and is made look believable, even if it is impossible in real life.
During one of the scenes, Aryan tells his aunt, “Hope, one day all of this makes sense”.
Ironically, during the interval, I saw an advertisement where a husband tells his wife that he has bought an artificial plant that looks real, to which the wife asks, “Does the plant leave oxygen and take carbon dioxide?”
Shockingly, the reality bites!
By the way, is Sifra (Super Intelligent Female Robotic Automation) as good-looking as Kriti Sanon? Well, most men will hope for such machines soon to become a reality!
Shahid Kapoor in a still from ‘Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya’. (Supplied)
Shahid Kapoor’s Aryan represents what happens to a man when he is in love for real.
How many of us love our cars and watches, though they are sentimental factors? We just cannot let our dear machines get a scratch on them!
But a man in love is real. Some continue to love even if the other person no longer has the same feelings. Such is the “real love” of a man. Here, Aryan feels the same for Sifra.
Also, Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya offers some good laughter, dance and lovely songs. All of these are typical but add value, including the presence of legendary actors like Dharmendra and Dimple Kapadia.
What happens when Sifra malfunctions? Well, watch it in theatres for the outcome.
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya is a one-of-a-kind love story of a man and a machine.
While some of it makes sense, the rest comes as a wake-up call for humans who are lost in the world of artificial intelligence and super-intelligent machines.
(Views expressed here are personal.)
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