Wednesday, July 8, 2009

KAMBAKKHT ISHQ: Movie Review


Amrita gets farted on her face ... Get it? ... It’s funny!!
Akshay runs his cart over a girl and the girl gets badly injured.... Get it? ... It’s hilarious!!
Kareena is a virgin.... Aren't you ROFLing already??(Well, at least Akshay Kumar was)

If you haven't noticed, KAMBAKKHT ISHQ is a comedy film. And hence you are supposed to be laughing while watching the movie. Only, all I could do was cringe in my seat every 10 minutes. Calling the movie crude and absurd will be an understatement; it gives a whole new dimension to vulgarity in bollywood.

What’s the story?.... Oh, come on.... don’t ask silly questions. If you insist, uh ... let me see whether I can work out one from what I saw in those 2 and half hours. Amrita Arora and Aftab Shivdasani want to get married to each other. But Kareena(a model) and Akshay(a Hollywood stuntman) do not want them to do so. So, they slap each other for the next half an hour. And for next one hour they curse each other and ya, slap some more. And before you know it, Kareena loses her watch inside Akshay while performing a surgery on him. Please ... don’t ask me to make sense of the rest.

This movie is supposed to be about 'battle of sexes'. No problems with that. In fact 'Hum Tum' had a similar theme, and it had driven its point well. The problem is how the whole thing is treated in 'Kambakkht Ishq'. Since when is slapping girls funny??I mean, seriously!! And honestly, rather than 'battle of sexes' the movie seems more like an 'ego-trip' for the guys (Sorry guys had to say it). The supposed battle ends when the gal apologizes for being a 'stuck-up bitch'. (Yes ladies, those are the exact words she uses.) That’s the least of its problems. The jokes couldn’t be crasser. For instance, An Enormous African American woman literally gets her hands inside Akki's backside. And later when he walks strangely and somebody asks what’s his problem. He says a*****e. (Get it??Those who want to bang their head against the keyboard are free to do so)The movie is filled with so-called crappy jokes which not only make you run for an aspirin, but also make you wonder how low the standards of bollywood comedy is coming to.

If you are wondering what those Hollywood actors shown in the promo do. Brandon Routh is hardly there for 2 minutes. Sylvester Stallone has a couple of scenes - One in which he gives an award to our wonderful hero, and second in which a bunch of baddies try to molest Kareena and Amrita and he saves the gals by bashing them up (Hmmm ... now where have I seen that before?) and Denise Richards wears good clothes, looks sexy and keeps wishing she could have babies with Akshay.

On performances - Akshay hams, hams and hams even more. Kareena is totally wasted. Amrita Arora looks every bit of a dumb bimbo. Aftab is totally confused. There is Jaaved Jaffery too, though I am yet to figure out why the hell was in the movie.

I was never a fan of David Dhawan comedies, but after this I have a new respect for him. This movie is a total insult to your senses. Someone told me that this movie is meant for people with no brains. Me thinks, this movie is just not meant for any human being.