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Salaam-e-Ishq is a crappy Indian copy of “Love Actually”. Nikhil Advani is a talented director, but embedding six stories into one love marathon is a difficult job. He tried and he failed. What this movie lacks is a witty plot with surprises and twists. Some thing that surprises the audience and keeps them captivated during a three and a half hour long movie.

The abstract style of story telling that Nikhil introduced in ‘Kal ho na ho’ didn’t work out for Salam e ishq. The six stories needed to be joined together and Nikhils no surprises and typical hindi film approach to the climax fails him to successfully attach the stories together. Taran Adarsh discussed the plot of movie in his review on IndiaFM.

Music was not at all bad. Shankar Ehsan Loy did a good job, specially the experimentation they did with songs like ‘Babu ji Dheeray chalna‘ and ‘Qawwali Saiyaan Re’. They also attempted to mix indian musical instruments with caribbean in the songs ‘Dil Kya Kare‘ and ‘Tenu Leke’. These elements make the music quite pleasant and surprisingly good. But unfortunately Nikhil failed to picturise the songs with something equally new and beautiful.

You can watch the movie trailor here:

http://www.salaam-e-ishq.com/

Some pictures, images, posters and movie stills:

http://123india.santabanta.com/wallgallery.asp?catname=Salaam-e-Ishq

Cast:
Priyanka Chopra
John Abraham
Salman Khan
Anil Kapoor
Akshay Khanna
Ayesha Takia
Govinda
Vidya Balan

Story: Nikhil Advani
Screenplay: Suresh Nair
Script: Saurabh Shukla

Costumes: Vikram Phadnis