Satish Kaushik’s 'Tere Sang' Is a curio — the soul of a single-screen movie contained in the shell of a multiplex-starrer. The setting is all today. The kids (a refreshing Sheena Shahabadi and Ruslaan Mumtaz) are indeed kids, not grown-up actors masquerading as teens. They laugh a lot, but know little — even the “I love you” moment comes towards the end, after they’ve been forced to grow up due to the circumstance of her becoming pregnant and their subsequent running away from unsympathetic parents.
Without the hipness quotient of a Juno, it’s hard to see what a modern-day audience will make of all this — but aficionados of old-world cinema (Dil, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Love Story, Bobby) will find a sweetness and an innocence in the fairy-tale proceedings that’s mostly hard to resist, at least till the latter portions begin to sag with the inevitable moralising. Just don’t go in expecting realism – or reality.