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Kismat Konnection (2008) Movie Rating and Review :
Rating :
Acting – 6/10
Direction – 4.5/10
Screenplay – 2/10
Music – 6/10
Technique – 6/10
Review :
Finger of fate in lack of connect
Aziz Mirza’s Raj and Priya are back. Only this time Shahid Kapur plays Shah Rukh Khan and Vidya Balan plays Rani Mukerji. The idea: Agar chalte chalte kismat konnection ho jaaye...
But in the two-and-a-half hours that they use on screen, the Mirza family (if Dad Aziz is the director, son Haroon is the co-director and daughter Rahila is the scriptwriter) just doesn’t do enough. There is nothing about Kismat Konnection that you haven’t seen before and there is not enough steam in the Shahid-Vidya pairing for you to sit through the strictly average fare.
It starts off promisingly, though. Raj (Shahid) is the brilliant college all-rounder who struggles to make a mark once out of campus. He blames it on his terrible luck, the unseen force which doesn’t let his car start, doesn’t allow his ATM card to function, doesn’t even allow his prospective client to last the day.
In walks, rather in drives, Priya (Vidya) whose mere presence makes things click for Raj. Just like that. Whenever she is around, his business card goes flying and lands on the lap of a client and that same ATM card starts working. And in a brilliant set-piece, her nudge helps his cue ball on the billiard table curl and bend itself to find the pocket miraculously.
But then Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani take over. Who? The Lage Raho Munnabhai writers. Hear this: Raj wants to win the contract for a new shopping mall, the construction of which will render the inmates of an old-age home (called community centre here) homeless. And Priya is like their daughter and she would go to any length for the second innings home to stay afloat.
Ok, there’s another equally predictable track of Priya being engaged to another man, who turns out to be an ass-licking manipulator, ready to “massage” his would-be-partner’s wife to clinch the deal. You can well imagine what happens from there on. And no, there’s no surprise lurking at any corner.
Remember Shah Rukh’s Raju who becomes a gentleman and does terribly cold-blooded corporate things before landing back in his world with a thud? Well, Shahid’s Raj is no different but Azizji, 16 years have gone by — your hair will testify to that — and the moralities are not the same in today’s world. And all that mumbo-jumbo explanation at the end about global warming and how helping the helpless improves corporate image just falls flat.
Shahid is very good, though. You never miss Shah Rukh for a moment and that says a lot about the kind of infectious and youthful charm Shahid is able to infuse in his Raj. He dances like magic, as always, and keeps getting better and better in the lighter scenes.
The same cannot be said about Vidya, who has not been able to put poor Lolita to sleep. Her heavy- (pun intended) duty act can work for a Guru or a Salaam-e-Ishq but in something frothy like Kismat, she looks so out of place. It’s only in the emotional scenes that she looks at ease. Those extra pounds, the dark circles under the eyes in some scenes and the atrocious wardrobe... Vidya, oh Vidya, when will you learn?
How about their chemistry? Well it suffices to say that the jodi of the film is Shahid and co-actor Vishal Malhotra, who plays his best friend Hiten. Juhi turns in a lovely cameo as the colourful gypsy-styled fortune-teller. Om Puri and Himani Shivpuri are hilarious in their limited screen time.
Pritam’s music and Binod Pradhan’s camerawork are the other redeeming features in this Tips enterprise. A couple of songs can be snipped off but the title song and Bakhuda are the few crests of the film and Canada looks gorgeous.
But if your idea is to cosy up with your lover over hot popcorn and a nice rom com, re-connect with Jaane Tu... at the theatres or Jab We Met on DVD. You will not end up cursing your so.
Acting – 6/10
Direction – 4.5/10
Screenplay – 2/10
Music – 6/10
Technique – 6/10
Review :
Finger of fate in lack of connect
Aziz Mirza’s Raj and Priya are back. Only this time Shahid Kapur plays Shah Rukh Khan and Vidya Balan plays Rani Mukerji. The idea: Agar chalte chalte kismat konnection ho jaaye...
But in the two-and-a-half hours that they use on screen, the Mirza family (if Dad Aziz is the director, son Haroon is the co-director and daughter Rahila is the scriptwriter) just doesn’t do enough. There is nothing about Kismat Konnection that you haven’t seen before and there is not enough steam in the Shahid-Vidya pairing for you to sit through the strictly average fare.
It starts off promisingly, though. Raj (Shahid) is the brilliant college all-rounder who struggles to make a mark once out of campus. He blames it on his terrible luck, the unseen force which doesn’t let his car start, doesn’t allow his ATM card to function, doesn’t even allow his prospective client to last the day.
In walks, rather in drives, Priya (Vidya) whose mere presence makes things click for Raj. Just like that. Whenever she is around, his business card goes flying and lands on the lap of a client and that same ATM card starts working. And in a brilliant set-piece, her nudge helps his cue ball on the billiard table curl and bend itself to find the pocket miraculously.
But then Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani take over. Who? The Lage Raho Munnabhai writers. Hear this: Raj wants to win the contract for a new shopping mall, the construction of which will render the inmates of an old-age home (called community centre here) homeless. And Priya is like their daughter and she would go to any length for the second innings home to stay afloat.
Ok, there’s another equally predictable track of Priya being engaged to another man, who turns out to be an ass-licking manipulator, ready to “massage” his would-be-partner’s wife to clinch the deal. You can well imagine what happens from there on. And no, there’s no surprise lurking at any corner.
Remember Shah Rukh’s Raju who becomes a gentleman and does terribly cold-blooded corporate things before landing back in his world with a thud? Well, Shahid’s Raj is no different but Azizji, 16 years have gone by — your hair will testify to that — and the moralities are not the same in today’s world. And all that mumbo-jumbo explanation at the end about global warming and how helping the helpless improves corporate image just falls flat.
Shahid is very good, though. You never miss Shah Rukh for a moment and that says a lot about the kind of infectious and youthful charm Shahid is able to infuse in his Raj. He dances like magic, as always, and keeps getting better and better in the lighter scenes.
The same cannot be said about Vidya, who has not been able to put poor Lolita to sleep. Her heavy- (pun intended) duty act can work for a Guru or a Salaam-e-Ishq but in something frothy like Kismat, she looks so out of place. It’s only in the emotional scenes that she looks at ease. Those extra pounds, the dark circles under the eyes in some scenes and the atrocious wardrobe... Vidya, oh Vidya, when will you learn?
How about their chemistry? Well it suffices to say that the jodi of the film is Shahid and co-actor Vishal Malhotra, who plays his best friend Hiten. Juhi turns in a lovely cameo as the colourful gypsy-styled fortune-teller. Om Puri and Himani Shivpuri are hilarious in their limited screen time.
Pritam’s music and Binod Pradhan’s camerawork are the other redeeming features in this Tips enterprise. A couple of songs can be snipped off but the title song and Bakhuda are the few crests of the film and Canada looks gorgeous.
But if your idea is to cosy up with your lover over hot popcorn and a nice rom com, re-connect with Jaane Tu... at the theatres or Jab We Met on DVD. You will not end up cursing your so.
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Kismat Konnection is a good time pass film. Watch KK online at interval:
http://www.interval.in/videos.php?id=24830
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