Kambakkht Ishq – Review
A mega-budget film, some popular Hollywood names & two of the biggest Bollywood stars….is it enough?
Well, not really.
Kambakkht Ishq give a new definition to funny. One that does not tickle any bones.
The film revolves around Hollywood stuntman Viraj Shergill (Akshay Kumar), who doesn’t think too highly of women & doesn’t believe in the word marriage. He happens to meet Simrita Rai (Kareena Kapoor) at his brother Lucky Shergill’s (Aftab Shivdasani) wedding. Simrita hates men & believes that they want only one thing. This starts of a war between the two, to prove to each other that they are right.
The first half goes past without much of the narrative actually moving forward. The jokes are average and hard to come by.
The second half of the movie is when it actually plummets. The story (already non-existent) spirals out of control, leaving the viewer completely baffled . Viraj hears a hindu chant (Om Mangalam) wherever he goes & Simrita is the only one who can solve his problem. On that premise, the film stumbles towards it’s agonizing climax, which towards the end of it, is stretched and frustrating.
The film also has its fair share of stereotypes; a goofy sidekick (Vindu Singh), a pestering aunt (Kirron Kher) or an over-the-top Sindhi (Javed Jaffery) wanting to make a quick buck.
Where the film falls flat is the script itself. The narrative is extremely weak & one does not find the story moving anywhere. Random sequences & songs appear and the jokes are far from funny.
Akshay Kumar falters yet again after Tasveer & CC2C. His performance is good in parts, but even he cannot salvage the brutality of the script. His wardrobe leaves one wondering why his designer would do that to him.
Kareena Kapoor looks fabulous & her role has glam written all over it. Her performance is ordinary and nothing to write home about. Sylvester Stallone & Denise Richards have blink and miss roles. Aftab Shivdasani & Amrita Arora are decent. Javed Jaffery overacts.
If there are two things that can be considered as positives for the movie, they are the beautiful locations & the high production values. The music from Anu Malik is decent & the title track from RDB works.
First time director Sabir Khan fails miserably. He provides no entertainment & creates a film that lacks soul. One wonders why Sajid Nadiadwala would put the onus of such a high budget film on such shoulders.
At the box office, one can see this movie laughing all the way to the bank. A houseful opening weekend, this movie will send the cash registers ringing. A marketing strategy that works again, Kambakkht Ishq is an ominous sign for Indian cinema, one that shows that even without any story whatsoever, a HIT Bollywood movie can be made. It tests the audiences intelligence & takes them for granted. I would strongly recommend Sabir Khan to let the art of making mindless comedies rest with David Dhawan.
Unless you are dared, have free tickets or just want to see a mockery of cinema, I would suggest you not to tread this path.
Critical: 1.5/5
Commercial: 4/5
Kambakkht Ishq
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
stupid movie.. copy of kamal hassan movie pammal K sambhandham.. tat movie was bad as well but with much better performances.
seems stallone and denise has a lot of debts to pay for..
any funny enough one of the scenes where akshay gets his arse checked for drugs is a copy of aashton kutcher movie just married..
lucky i did not wait to see the climax..
why does bollywood never grow up!
waste of 80 bucks
dont waste your money on this. absolute trash of a movie… but the buffoons who made it will probably make money, of all the damn hype it created…..
@Ram M – I’m just wondering what made you say Pammal K Sambandam was a bad movie. PKS, along with Panchathanthiram, MMKR and a host of other movies are Kamal’s trademark comedy movies. I can still remember most of the dialogues which were too-damn-absolutely-funny.
It was a comedy movie for christ sake and I hope you wouldn’t expect “perfect logic” in comedy movies.
The only reason the film fared “not-so-well” at box office was because of Pirated VCDs that time…
@Sivakumar
I don’t consider MMKR and PKS to be in the same league. MMKR had a bunch of competent actors and a decent storyline/screenplay. While Kamal’s acting may have been good in PKS, it doesn’t make the movie good. The only 2 characters that are worth watching in the movie are Kamal and his ‘grandfather’ in the movie (Unnikrishnan Namboothiri, if I am not wrong)
@kshitij
It tests the audiences intelligence or patience
PKS was a bad movie,blaming the failure of it on pirated vcds, would be utter foolishness.
I have not seen the movie, but the trailer,itself showed it was a masala movie.
I have not yet dared to watch KI, but those who have seen it are in state of shock.
@Ram: do let me know where u watch movies, 80 bux !!!
i had to pay 280 bux for this shit
I do like mindless comedies, love watching most of those Govinda-David Dhawan stuff. I liked Dude, Where is My Car? too. But KI is horrible, its not at all funny. Not even remotely. The jokes are stale, and just make u wince. If this movie is a success, its a big concern. Bollywood movie makers, are going to take this an excuse to ram down more junk in our throats. All in the name of “Entertainment”.
PKS was not in the league of an Apoorva Sahodaragal or MMKR, but not too bad. It was an okayish movie.
Certainly this movie is not funny or entertaining in any way.enduring the movie was a big pain & even I feel that if such a movie becomes a success then its a big cause of concern.Time to say a big no to such tasteless movies.
You guys don’t know any thing about films. Koi hamare Taran bhaiya ki bhi to rai lo. Read this
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http://www.bollyadda.com/2009/07/taran-adarsh-kambakht-ishq-review.html
Mr.Singh
im sorry to say but Taran bhaiya is a sell-out. He purely gives reviews based on the commercial aspect.
he doesnt really care much about good quality cinema. if the board is House-full, the movie is good according to him…
Does this movie even merit a review ??…..you don’t go and analyze shit with a microscope unless you are looking for diseases.
Shiva..
i found PKS bad.. personal opinion… one of the main resasons for me is that kamal doesnt act naturally.. no offenses.. he’s a great showman and a decent actor with an extro ordinary taste for films… but not in the league of other great actors..
kshitijm,
im at banglore and i dont prefer multiplexes as i feel its a waste of money. i saw it in Vaibhav theatre. awesome theatre along with Urvashi… not worth goin to multiplexes when these theatres r around.