Love at Times Square

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 39 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.^[2]

In India, Sify criticized for poor writing and plot as well as poor acting by the newcomers. The direction of scenes in New York and transitions between scenes were also criticized.^[3] Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM gave the film one out of five, writing, ″Even the September 11 incident has no relevance to the story and has been forced to the screenplay. The climax is also an absolute letdown. Dev Anand's direction is below the mark. Though the idea of depicting a love story on a New Year eve is different, the execution leaves a lot to be desired.″^[4]

In US, Dave Kehr of The New York Times wrote that "The good cheer of Love at Times Square is relentless, and given the film's 155-minute running time, occasionally oppressive".^[5] Mark Holcomb of The Village Voice wrote, ″It takes an abundance of nerve or an impressive miscalculation of vision to situate the guileless, frenzied glitz of a Bollywood musical in gloomy NYC. Both seem to motivate octogenarian Indian auteur Dev Anand's Love at Times Square, which mixes bourgeois moralizing with chaste rom-com shenanigans and song-and-dance numbers that would make the Solid Gold dancers weep with envy. Anand plays a self-described "compassionate Silicon Valley billionaire" whose daughter, Sweety, contends with dual suitors in pseudo-swank Manhattan (or a Calcutta soundstage facsimile thereof). When the pressure mounts, she pops over to Dad's spray-paint-and-pasteboard San Jose mansion—which appears to be about a day's drive from midtown—to belt out a tune or two. Anand manages to work in shamelessly exploitative September 11 footage between numbers, but aside from this sequence, Love couldn't be more giddily benign.″^[6] Megan Lehmann of the New York Post gave the film 1.5 out of 4, writing, ″This blithe inattention to authenticity is perversely endearing, and the whole (overlong) shebang is so jolly and well-intentioned, that it's kind of fun. It's just not very good film-making.″^[7]

• Love at Times Square at IMDb
• Love at Times Square at Bollywood Hungama