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'Kis Kis Ki Kismat'

By Nitika Desai
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

At the outset, Kis Kis Ki Kismat seems like a crowd-pulling film. It is supposedly a comedy marking the comeback of Dharmendra, whose comic sense was once unparalleled. It is sprinkled with sufficient dose of skin exposure (so indispensable in films nowadays) by sensuous Mallika Sherawat to ‘arouse’ the viewers in the middle of laughs.

But sadly, the movie simply disappoints. Reason? There is not good enough story to support the comic acts. The situations in the movie seem too deliberately created. The writers have relied too heavily on coincidence and ludicrous situations to invoke mirth.

Sample

this – Hasmukh Mehta throws his wife’s necklace out of window and it lands right on our Mallika baby. She trips and spoils her look. And the same Mehta, who was angry at his wife for being spendthrift, now goes all the way to gift Mallika the necklace, and even buys her ear-rings matching it.

But this is nothing. The real absurdity reveals itself in all it’s splendor when you see that the ‘thoughtful’ director has cleverly slipped in a whole song between the time when Mehta throws the necklace and before it lands on Mallika.

Another coincidence – When the whole city is abuzz with talks of Mehta’s sexy mistress, she actually falls for Mehta’s son, of all the men in this world.

And the absurdity becomes intolerable in the second half when it is shown that the stock market depends on the course Mehta’s secret affair takes. One irresponsible statement by a girl as naïve as his ‘mistress’ could tumble the stock market. Please, some mercy….

Those who expect to see Dharmendra in his ‘comic avatar of yore’ will be disappointed too. The bygones are bygones, and also gone along is the comic sense of that inimitable Dharmendra who could once arouse laughter by just a facial expression. The actor is stiff in the movie and fails to identify with his character and (worst of all) fails to conceal his failure, for it is written all over the screen for those who can discern good acting from hamming.

Mallika Sherawat’s acting is restricted to shouting, scowling and flaunting her curves and cleavage. Satish Shah is the only one who shows a genuine flair for comedy.

On the whole, Kis Kis Ki Kismat will appeal only to those who dig ludicrous comedy with superficial situations. Those who care for genuine humor should give this ‘kiss’ a miss.

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