Love Today (2022 film)

Love Today is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by Pradeep Ranganathan and produced by AGS Entertainment.

The film stars Pradeep (in his debut as lead actor), alongside Ivana, Raveena Ravi, Yogi Babu, Sathyaraj, Radhika Sarathkumar, Akshaya Udayakumar, Prathana Nathan, Adithya Kathir and Aajeedh Khalique.

The film has music composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, cinematography handled by Dinesh Purushothaman, and editing by Pradeep E. Ragav.

He is in a romantic relationship with Nikitha, a software engineer working at Infosys and the daughter of Venu Sastri, an orthodox and sly lawyer.

They believe they know each other well, are made for each other and are ready to take their relationship to the next level (i.e. marriage), but Pradeep hesitates a bit due to Nikitha's strict father.

However, during their meeting, Venu toys around with Pradeep and then proposes a strange deal with him: he should exchange his mobile phone with Nikitha's for 24 hours, along with full access.

He further finds out that Nikitha is still friends with her ex-boyfriend Mamakutty and had gone on a night drive with him to Puducherry a few days earlier by lying to Pradeep.

He confronts Nikitha on both Revi and Mamakutty, leaving her in tears and driving a wedge into their hitherto perfect relationship.

However, unknown to Nikitha, Pradeep has a second Instagram account on his phone, which he and his friends had created in college to message sexually explicit content using a fake female identity, for years.

Saraswathi consoles him and tells him that trust in a relationship is all that is needed, which he realizes when he finds the tree he had struggled to grow in his childhood.

Later, while catching a smoking Pradeep, Yogi reveals that the reason he hesitates to share his phone is due to others e-mocking him for his appearance.

Meanwhile, a porn clip, apparently involving Nikitha, goes viral, causing her father to assault and disown her, despite her pleas that the video was doctored.

Venu apologizes to Nikitha for misunderstanding her and then reveals to her and Pradeep the real reason for the phone swap: he wanted to check how strong their relationship would be despite the hurdles and informs them that they have succeeded, thus approving their marriage.

[17][18] The distribution rights of the film in Tamil Nadu were acquired by Udhayanidhi Stalin under the banner of Red Giant Movies.

[20] After the film's success, Dil Raju's Sri Venkateswara Creations presented the dubbed Telugu version, which was released on 25 November.

[citation needed] Logesh Balachandran of The Times of India rated 3.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "Overall, Love Today is an entertaining watch and is a perfect outing for the weekend.

"[30] Soundarya Athimuthu of The Quint gave the film's rating 3 out of 5 and wrote "This new age romantic entertainer emphasizes the age-old fact that 'trust' is the foundation of a relationship.

"[31] Kirubhakar Purushothaman of The Indian Express gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "The film conveniently deals only with softcore issues that are palatable for the mainstream audience… But what about their search history, their kinks, and the truths that only our mobile phones know?

"[35] Thinkal Menon of OTT Play gave 3.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "Director-actor Pradeep had mentioned in one of his movie promotions that the film has been made for 2K kids.