LoveStory 2050 revealed...SCI-FI - priyan

The latest promos of Love Story 2050 show a slick production on the evidence of a tightly edited 2-minute trailer. So buoyed is the LS2050 team with their effort that they consigned comely Priyanka Chopra, the movie's heroine, to a blink-and-miss bit on the trailer, most of which is taken up by whizz-bang effects.

Produced by Harry Baweja for his son Harman (who incidentally is also Priyanka's current boyfriend) the film is reported to have cost US $18 million (Rs 92 crore), presumably most of it spent on effects. The trailer shows a movie that is a mix of many movies. Among them Time Machine (boy and girl sit in machine that teleports them from present day to Mumbai of 2050), i Robot (replicating the scene where all the robots are lined up for inspection) and Star Wars (flying cars careening around space cities).

The musical theme is also lifted, sounding like Robbie Williams's Millennium. The film's tagline is: Where love is eternal, even God bends his rule.

The script for the movie was prepared by Baweja senior in 1999, and special effects influenced by films that were released along the way. Initially scheduled for release in December last year, the movie was delayed by further special effects work.

Four foreign firms are working on the movie, two of which -- New Zealand's Weta Workshop and Australia's John Cox -- are Academy Award winners. Their efforts have been to put together a futuristic Mumbai skyline, which actually looks like present-day Shanghai, and a two-and-half-foot robot called Boo.

Munnabhai MBBS's Kurush Deboo plays computer hacker Jimmy Dhinchuck. For Priyanka Chopra this will be her third special effects extravaganza, after Krrish and God Tussi Great Ho, a remake of Bruce Almighty starring Salman Khan.

Priyanka, LS2050's only star of note, has a double role in the movie. Watch out the promos click here