In the movie KAMBAKKHT ISHQ, the most dangerous stunt is performed by producer Sajid Nadiadwala who has pumped 65 crores in such a hopeless project.
Kambakkht Ishq has 3 main villains - Kiran Kotrial, Anvita Dutt Gupta, Ishita Mohitra –the script writers & their boss Sabbir Khan – a debutant Director – this team seems clearly clueless where to take the story so they keep spinning it in circles.
Watching the promos and the huge hype the makers have managed to create about their film, your expectation levels are high when you enter but as you come out you do feel that it is nothing more than a dumb entertainer that tries to take you too much for granted.
I want to specifically mention that it was a wrong choice of release date, as New York which is the first big release after the strike, was just released a week before. Why can’t the producers and the distributors understand the simple fact that any big film should be given a breathing period of atleast 15 days and New York after having a good opening at the box office did fantastic business the whole week. Eating each others business is not recommended in this crucial period of recession.
Now lets dissect the movie.
The movie opens with great excitement, whistles and cheers. The viewers are really desperate to see some quality work which can be unanimously acclaimed by both critics and the general public. But once again, Bollywood delivers a half baked product called “Kambakhht Ishq” which fails miserably.
Kambakkht Ishq has a story which is predictable scene after scene, nothing new or exciting. Viraj (Akshay Kumar) is a Hollywood stunt man who doesn’t believe in marriage and lives by the belief that women are good for just making love. Simrita (Kareena Kapoor), a certified man-hater, thinks men want just one thing (not hard to guess, again) from women. The two are pitted against each other when Viraj’s brother Lucky ( Aftab Shivdasani ) and Simrita’s friend Kamini ( Amrita Arora ) get married. Both Viraj and Simrita don’t approve of the marriage and try to break the match.
From then on Viraj and Simrita keep bumping into each other – in airports and planes, in exotic Italian towns and in operation theatre in hospitals. Miss Supermodel doubles up as a surgeon who, in an operation, leaves a timepiece inside stuntman’s stomach.
The post interval portions try to deal with emotional melodrama which the audience find more hilarious than the supposed to be funny scenes of the movie. The most unbearable part is that how a triangle love story can be set amongst Akshay, Kareena & Denise Richards. Common yaar, please guyz, do not torture us so much.
Kambakkht Ishq is a best example of how low the standards of film making have fallen. This battle-of-the-sexes saga is a loud, vulgar and seriously offensive. We can accept a film which lacks logic only if it nicely packaged with entertainment. But Kambakkht Ishq doesn’t have any of the two having a crude tone throughout the two hours which is inexcusable.
There’s a scene where a black female customs officer practically rips through Akshay's backside to search for drugs or the scene where Akshay farts in Amrita Arora's face for no reason at all, Akshay and Kareena constantly referring each other as "dog" and "bitch", the innumerable references to sex, virginity and homosexuality – all these instances look very very cheap on the screen when they are supposed to look funny.
I was shocked to see a cheap gimmick where a group of girls flash their breasts to the men at a wedding reception – I don’t think that Indian audience will accept such kind of ugly humour.
Akshay brings nothing new to a role that he has enacted a hundred times before. Even the stunts and action sequences performed by Akshay Kumar are too fast, routine and executed in a clumsy manner.
The film is mostly shot in Universal Studios and the Kodak Theatre – so Hollywood is captured properly, atleast something to appreciate.
Now lets dissect the movie.
The movie opens with great excitement, whistles and cheers. The viewers are really desperate to see some quality work which can be unanimously acclaimed by both critics and the general public. But once again, Bollywood delivers a half baked product called “Kambakhht Ishq” which fails miserably.
Kambakkht Ishq has a story which is predictable scene after scene, nothing new or exciting. Viraj (Akshay Kumar) is a Hollywood stunt man who doesn’t believe in marriage and lives by the belief that women are good for just making love. Simrita (Kareena Kapoor), a certified man-hater, thinks men want just one thing (not hard to guess, again) from women. The two are pitted against each other when Viraj’s brother Lucky ( Aftab Shivdasani ) and Simrita’s friend Kamini ( Amrita Arora ) get married. Both Viraj and Simrita don’t approve of the marriage and try to break the match.
From then on Viraj and Simrita keep bumping into each other – in airports and planes, in exotic Italian towns and in operation theatre in hospitals. Miss Supermodel doubles up as a surgeon who, in an operation, leaves a timepiece inside stuntman’s stomach.
The post interval portions try to deal with emotional melodrama which the audience find more hilarious than the supposed to be funny scenes of the movie. The most unbearable part is that how a triangle love story can be set amongst Akshay, Kareena & Denise Richards. Common yaar, please guyz, do not torture us so much.
Kambakkht Ishq is a best example of how low the standards of film making have fallen. This battle-of-the-sexes saga is a loud, vulgar and seriously offensive. We can accept a film which lacks logic only if it nicely packaged with entertainment. But Kambakkht Ishq doesn’t have any of the two having a crude tone throughout the two hours which is inexcusable.
There’s a scene where a black female customs officer practically rips through Akshay's backside to search for drugs or the scene where Akshay farts in Amrita Arora's face for no reason at all, Akshay and Kareena constantly referring each other as "dog" and "bitch", the innumerable references to sex, virginity and homosexuality – all these instances look very very cheap on the screen when they are supposed to look funny.
I was shocked to see a cheap gimmick where a group of girls flash their breasts to the men at a wedding reception – I don’t think that Indian audience will accept such kind of ugly humour.
Akshay brings nothing new to a role that he has enacted a hundred times before. Even the stunts and action sequences performed by Akshay Kumar are too fast, routine and executed in a clumsy manner.
The film is mostly shot in Universal Studios and the Kodak Theatre – so Hollywood is captured properly, atleast something to appreciate.
The film lacks in almost all the departments of film making. The jokes are very mediocre, the only good scene in the film is the one in which Akshay discovers to his horror that Kareena will be performing surgery on him. Muttering and cursing her as the anesthesia kicks in, atleast makes you smile.
The song ‘Mangalam Mangalam’ sung and composed by RDB is rocking, it is a chartbuster composition which is well picturized too. Rest of the songs are composed by Anu Malik. He is advised to stick to the TV shows and shouldn’t contribute to the the Bollywood music as he has completely lost his melodious touch. Kareena’s DON song is 10 times better and well shot than the 'Bebo main Bebo' song.
The main lead actors are simply wasted. It can be seen on the screen, that the two try very hard to lift the script as if they know that it is very poor, but the film has a very rotten plot and a hopeless screenplay – even an Aamir might have failed to save such kind of film.
Aftab Shivdasani and Amrita Arora acted well. They are tolerable, unlike the girl who has played Kareena’s sister and Kiron Kher – both are unbearable in the movie. And Vindu Dara Singh, oh just forget him.
Boman Irani has just one scene and does complete justice to it. Javed Jaffery did a fine job, in portraying a funny character who is in search of a chance to sue anybody so that he can earn money as compensation.
The producer Sajid Nadiadwala didn’t leave any stone unturned to make the movie look glossy, majestic and larger than life, he succeeds too.
Among the three - Sylvester Stallone, Brandon Routh and Denise Richards, the most famous in India is THE RAMBO, who also gets the maximum scenes in the movie. Denise Richards appears too old for the role she portrays, a big casting error.
Kambakkht Ishq is also said to be the remake of a Tamil film “Pammal K. Sambandam” (2002) featuring Kamal Hassan & Simran which was a huge Hit in the south.
So guyz, don’t waste your time watching such a crap, and still if you are thirsty for a good movie go for New York, it’s worth watching twice.
The song ‘Mangalam Mangalam’ sung and composed by RDB is rocking, it is a chartbuster composition which is well picturized too. Rest of the songs are composed by Anu Malik. He is advised to stick to the TV shows and shouldn’t contribute to the the Bollywood music as he has completely lost his melodious touch. Kareena’s DON song is 10 times better and well shot than the 'Bebo main Bebo' song.
The main lead actors are simply wasted. It can be seen on the screen, that the two try very hard to lift the script as if they know that it is very poor, but the film has a very rotten plot and a hopeless screenplay – even an Aamir might have failed to save such kind of film.
Aftab Shivdasani and Amrita Arora acted well. They are tolerable, unlike the girl who has played Kareena’s sister and Kiron Kher – both are unbearable in the movie. And Vindu Dara Singh, oh just forget him.
Boman Irani has just one scene and does complete justice to it. Javed Jaffery did a fine job, in portraying a funny character who is in search of a chance to sue anybody so that he can earn money as compensation.
The producer Sajid Nadiadwala didn’t leave any stone unturned to make the movie look glossy, majestic and larger than life, he succeeds too.
Among the three - Sylvester Stallone, Brandon Routh and Denise Richards, the most famous in India is THE RAMBO, who also gets the maximum scenes in the movie. Denise Richards appears too old for the role she portrays, a big casting error.
Kambakkht Ishq is also said to be the remake of a Tamil film “Pammal K. Sambandam” (2002) featuring Kamal Hassan & Simran which was a huge Hit in the south.
So guyz, don’t waste your time watching such a crap, and still if you are thirsty for a good movie go for New York, it’s worth watching twice.
RATING : 1.5 / 5
Review : Ashish Gharde
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