Salaam-E-Ishq: A Tribute To Love is a 2007 Bollywood film, directed by Nikhil Advani and featuring a huge starcast including Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Akshaye Khanna, Ayesha Takia, John Abraham, Vidya Balan, Govinda, Shannon Esra, Sohail Khan and Isha Koppikar in lead roles.The movie weaves a number of love stories together thanks to the relationships of the people within it.The film is Advani’s second directorial venture after Kal Ho Naa Ho.The shooting of the film begun in November 2005 and was finished by July 2006.The movie released on January 25, 2007.
The music was generally approved of by Rediff.com as “awesome”, however, due to the concept of the movie, comparisons were drawn to Richard Curtis’ ensemble film Love Actually.The film, however, has garnered a tepid response from the critics.Film critic Taran Adarsh called “a disjointed script, abstract style of narrating the story and excessive length” as the film’s main deficiencies.Rediff.com’s Sukanya Verma called it “an ode to mediocrity, not love or cinema”.

However, Poonam Joshi of Channel 4 praised the film for its “clever storytelling, parody and brazen wit”.Though the film suffered from poor reviews it garnered a good response from audiences, earning approximately $1,000,009 US Dollars in the U.S.A. alone, grossing £349,000 in the U.K. and approximately 850,000 Australian Dollars in Australia.[citation needed] The film received a 1.5 Star rating on IndiaFM and a 4.0 Star rating on Channel 4.

Six young couples in different situations, face different quandaries. All their problems are apparently caused by love, too much, too little, love for the wrong people, love for people who don’t want it, unrequited love, amnesia-afflicted love and what have you. Each of the 6 stories is moderately developed, the most believable being the Hindu-Muslim couple - the Ashutosh-Tehzeeb (John and Vidya) story. Then there is the starlet hungry to make it big, hatching up a publicity stunt which backfires - the Kkamini-Rahul (Priyanka-Salman) deal. The 3rd pair is that of Stephanie-Raju (Shannon and Govinda) pair, she searching for her faithless Indian boyfriend and he the Indian taxi-driver who ferries her around the country. And then there is the Shiven-Gia (Akshaye-Ayesha) yuppie marriage fiasco, with the groom with the cold-feet. The 5th story is of the stable married couple - Vinay-Seema (Anil and Juhi), whose 15 year marriage is threatened when the husband wants more than just boring, suburban life. The 6th couple’s story is of Isha-Sohail as a rural couple unable to give vent to their passion. The film runs through these 6 stories almost in parallel, taking us to their respective conclusions.

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