Thumbs up, indiaglitz : ...The dialogues of the film surpass most other elements of the film. The music by Pritam is a good mix ranging from soft romantic ones to disco numbers and takes the narrative forward but can't be called everlasting. The cinematography enhances the landscape of London, Delhi, San Francisco, and Calcutta (not Kolkata) in the film.... full review

Thumbs up, by Umesh Punwani, koimoi : ...All said and done, Love Aaj Kal is yet another wild ride taken by Imtiaz Ali in the quest to give a new meaning to the old love. Watch it along with your broken heart.... full review

So-So, Bollywood Hungama : ...Amit Roy's cinematography is quite great in some sequences. But in some close up shots, it is not upto the mark. Suman Roy Mahapatra's production design is quite stylish, especially in present day portions. Aki Narula's costumes are quite appealing, especially the ones worn by Sara and by Kartik in present day track. Aarti Bajaj's editing is sans complaints.... full review

So-So, by Devesh Sharma, Filmfare : ...Sara Ali Khan, who was such a natural in her first two outings, is guilty of going over-the-top at some places. Now, whether that was her brief or whether she chose to interpret her character that way -- we will never know. There is no singularity to her act. Just like Kartik’s, there is a lot of commitment, lot of hard work gone into it but she isn’t riding that horse properly enough. Newbie Aarushi Sharma has a nice screen presence and has shown both pluck and promise in her brief role.... full review

So-So, by Madhuri V, Filmi Beat : ...'Haan Main Galat' which appears during the rolling of end credits, makes for a groovy number. Arijit Singh's vocals in 'Shayad' is soothing to ears. 'Rahogi Meri' has been beautifully picturized and leave a mark. 'Mehrama' also makes for a good listen.... full review

So-So, by Sonal Gera, India TV : ...'Love Aaj Kal' is a flawed notion about the quandary between love and ambition in the more-flawed lives of the younger generation. What makes it worth watching, however, is Imtiaz Ali's unique storytelling, involving conflicting emotions and self-realisation, which makes you cry -- even if you feel stupid for shedding tears for no strong reason.... full review

So-So, by R.M. Vijayakar, India West : ...Kartik is in form as Raghu, but is best in the second half as Veer, the intense rejected lover. His expressions in the climax are amazing. Sara Ali Khan shows spunk and carries the character. However, the half-baked values of Zoe handicap her from a lethal performance that could have been there. The supporting cast has nothing much to do.... full review

So-So, by Vinamra Mathur, MiD DAY : ...Before talking about his new film Love Aaj Kal, starring Kartik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan, here's a sincere question -- is there any other filmmaker who's fascinated by love stories as much as Imtiaz Ali, especially in the era of the Millennial? He has a penchant of narrating stories about aimless protagonists who discover and even rediscover their identities once they have fallen in love.... full review

So-So, by Kunal Guha, Mumbai Mirror : ...This film has an obsessive-yet-obedient hero and a heroine who’s constantly overreacting and intermittently overacting. And while copious amounts of alcohol are downed by some in in this film, the unsuspecting audience will be the one to emerge with a throbbing hangover.... full review

So-So, by Saibal Chatterjee, NDTV : ...But no matter what, Love Aaj Kal is worth a watch because, like its protagonists, it isn't afraid of committing glorious mistakes.... full review

So-So, by Vinayak Chakravorty, Outlook India : ...This is a beautifully shot film (cinematography by Amit Roy), although Aarti Bajaj''s editing could have been tighter all through. The film moves at a lazy pace, only to arrive at an ending you would have guessed by interval.... full review

So-So, by Joginder Tuteja, Planet Bollywood : ...In the recent past, Kartik has already done well enough to deliver back to back successes in the form of Pati Patni aur Woh, Luka Chuppi, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety and Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2. While one waits to see how Love Aaj Kal is grabbed by its target audience (urban youth), rest assured he would be bringing in different shades to his performance all over again in his upcoming releases Dostana 2 and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2. If the manner in which he nailed his complex parts in Love Aaj Kal is any indication, he should rock the show all over again.... full review

So-So, by Raja Sen, Rediff : ...Love Aaj Kal is a harmless, watchable film -- sad, because it could have been truly special. It has its moments in the first half, while the second half is an over-melodramatic drag. Or have I missed the point, and is Imtiaz making an incisive comment on the nature of Bollywood masala, saying be it today or yesterday, our romances stay as cheesy as they are breezy?... full review

So-So, by Ronak Kotecha, Times of India : ...The film’s soundtrack is rich in melody that adds value to the storytelling. The short runtime is another plus with an intriguing first-half, but a predictable second-half.... full review

Thumbs down, by Bobby Sing, Bobby Talks Cinema.com : ...In all, such an impactless film was really not expected from Imtiaz after the debacle of his last biggie. Honestly couldnt find the reason why this quick remake was made in the first place and what the director wished to convey through his so unreal characters? Anyhow, LOVE AAJ KAL is still a much better film than JAB HARRY MET SEJAL in comparison, having a few notable moments pointing towards the natural dilemma felt by every young boy and girl.... full review

Thumbs down, by Subhash K Jha, Bolly Spice : ...I wish the rest of this unanchored sequel to the 2009 romcom was equally powerful. Most of the film is sadly, weak and under-written. Or worse, weak and hammy.... full review

Thumbs down, by Russel D'silva, Bollywood Life : ...Love Aaj Kal is destined to end Kartik Aaryan's golden run while also handing Sara Ali Khan her first outright failure, beside continuing Imitiaz Ali's poor form. Basically, Kartik and Sara are sandwiched between a bearable first half and terrible second half. And yes, I am already predicting the film's fate because that's how bad it ends up being, particularly the second half. I'm going with 1.5 out of 5 stars.... full review

Thumbs down, by SUPARNA SHARMA, Deccan Chronicle : ...Love Aaj Kal has an annoying, irritating, glacial pace, and at some point after interval, I tried to fix my glare at the head of the man sitting in front, to check the speed at which hair grows.... full review

Thumbs down, by Angel Rani, Deccan Herald : ...Okay, love these days is so muddled. But hope Imtiaz Ali doesn’t carry on with the messy franchise.... full review

Thumbs down, by Deepa Gahlot, Deepa Gahlot : ...One would not mind its flaws so much if Love Aaj Kal 2 was entertaining, but it is dour, contrived and tiresome. Carry aspirin.... full review

Thumbs down, by Anna MM Vertticad, FirstPost : ...Love Aaj Kal is pretentious, verbose and thoroughly insufferable. Among its many contrivances is the use of Hooda's voice playing in the background as the end credits roll, whispering sentences that are perhaps meant to be wise and impressive. I managed to catch the very last line as the very last word disappeared from the screen. "Romantic hai na kahaani?" I think I heard him ask. (The story is romantic, is it not?) The answer - if you have any doubts after reading this review so far - is an absolute, vehement, resounding no. That truth hurts though, because once upon a time jab Imtiaz Ali and Kareena Kapoor met, they did create screen magic.... full review

Thumbs down, by Shubha Shetty Saha, Free Press Journal : ...In this film, Randeep Hooda’s character keeps offering a detox drink to help Zoe get over their hangovers. Wish he had offered one to Imtiaz Ali too. He sure needs a detox for the overdose of mush in his system.... full review

Thumbs down, by Vishal Verma, Glamsham.com : ...What an irony. On valentine's day, am criticizing a love story by Imtiaz Ali. Who once upon a time told stories that where from my life?. SOCHA NA THA, JAB WE MET, LOVE AAJ KAL, ROCKSTAR. Today, Imtiaz is stuck in its own never ending loop am still wondering what was this so called modern gyan of love - LOVE AAJ KAL all about. A suffering in the name of love?. I kept waiting for the plot to kick in and knock my heart and warm my soul. It never happened. In fact the movie had the body but lacked the soul. Socha Na Tha ki valentine day par the renowned silver screen love guru aisa Tamasha dikahayega ki dil hi toot jayega…... full review

Thumbs down, by Monika Rawal Kukreja, Hindustan Times : ...Love Aaj Kal is a film that’s for the millennials only because it’s a modern day love story but even then, it needed a way better treatment. Watch it maybe if you get free couple tickets and have no better V-Day plans with your significant other.... full review

Thumbs down, by Ankur Pathak, Huffington Post : ...Love Aaj Kal should serve as a reality check for Ali. Maybe he could adapt, collaborate or simply collect new experiences to mine for the movies. One can forgive him for telling the same story again but not for telling the same story badly.... full review

Thumbs down, by Nairita Mukherjee, india today : ...If you walked into Love Aaj Kal as an Imtiaz Ali fan, despite the debacle that Jab Harry Met Sejal was, you will walk out broken, even more disappointed. And perhaps with the realisation that Imtiaz, the man with the untamable hair and the insatiable appetite for delving deep into the human psyche, has ebbed.... full review

Thumbs down, by Shubhra Gupta, indian express : ...The film ends with a song, the usual medley of the cast dancing as the credits roll, and there it is, the film. Such liveliness, and zest: if only the whole film had the same feel. I came away with a feeling of being comprehensively let down: where has the craft gone, and where, indeed, the heart?... full review

Thumbs down, by Uday Bhatia, Live Mint : ...There are still takers for Ali’s admittedly unique brand of romantic anguish. They will likely be thrilled, not irritated, that Love Aaj Kal has shades of most of his earlier films: a chattering female lead like Jab We Met; the heart-versus-career dilemma of Tamasha; the escape to the mountains of Highway and Laila Majnu; the entirety of Love Aaj Kal 1.0. At one point, Veer tells present-day Raghu, “Dil se bol raha hai, I feel it." Perhaps this is what Ali imagines today's viewer thinks of his films. Sara Ali Khan going “Againnnnnnn" is probably more accurate.... full review

Thumbs down, by Mayank Shekhar, MiD DAY : ...All that you need to know, am guessing, is this was supposed to be some sort of a late-millennial take on balancing career with relationship — the new-age commitment phobia, if you will. Going back to Sara's character, she explains, "Par balance hai hi nahin mujhme." Have lost all mental balance too. Bas, ho gaya boss.... full review

Thumbs down, by Rajeev Masand, News18.com : ...There is no polite way to say this – Love Aaj Kal is pretty awful and dreadfully boring. It’s also overlong and hammy. The pursuit of romantic fulfilment has seldom felt so banal. I’m going with one-and-a-half out of five.... full review

Thumbs down, by Vaibhavi V Risbood, Pinkvilla : ...watching the film turns into the ‘biscuit moment’. Precisely, as you plan to enjoy your biscuit dunking it in a hot cuppa, it becomes soggy and falls back in the cup. Now you can neither enjoy the tea, nor the biscuit, and you are left wondering for how tasty you expected it to be.... full review

Thumbs down, by Sukanya Verma, Rediff : ...A poorly conceived reboot that's overlong, overdramatic and overdone, Love Aaj Kal simply cannot differentiate between pyaar and parody.... full review

Thumbs down, by Nandini Ramnath, Scroll.in : ...This isn’t that kind of a movie. Love happens only once. It is forever. There is no scope for uprooting feelings and replanting them in more fertile soil elsewhere – an idea that Imtiaz Ali fruitfully explored in Jab We Met. Ali travels to his favourite hunting ground for closure – Manali. Pass us some of those Manali greens while you are at it, and pour us one of the detox drinks that Raghu is so fond of fixing, whatever the hour.... full review

Thumbs down, by Namrata Joshi, The Hindu : ...At best, love feels torturous, tired and worn-out, and at its worst it becomes little more than a caricature. For the viewer, there is very little by way of options other than lapsing into sheer disinterest, boredom and exasperation.... full review

Thumbs down, by Saionee Chakraborty, The Telegraph : ...Kartik Aaryan comes to the rescue. Yes, really. He is the best bit about Love Aaj Kal. Endearing as a younger Raghu and huggable as Veer, Kartik’s performance is earnest. Sara has her moments, but is screechy and the exuberance is over the top. The big bright smile and the spunk is infectious but belies the ‘spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’. She looks gorgeous though.... full review