Throughout the latter part of the 90s Bollywood churned out these "Keep your minds at home" genre of movies. This era was dominated by the David Dhawan - Govinda combo. Lately post Hera Pheri, a major part of the Akshay Kumar starers have turned out to be belonging to the same genre. So if you did not like the likes of Garam Masala, Welcome and Singh is King, this review is not for you and hence you can stop here.
Kambakht Ishq has a lot of eye candy and very little of logic and lots of humor. One should not apply any logic while seeing such kind of movies. Its mostly shot in Los Angeles and hence viewers get a free LA darshan. The music is peppy and adds to the movie's masala. Some of the jokes are really really funny and just cracks you up. I was laughing on a couple of jokes even after 5 hours into the movie. Humor is the soul of this film on the backdrop of a battle between the sexes.
As shown in the teasers, Viraj (Akshay) is an award winning stuntman in Hollywood and Simrita (Kareena) is a part time super model who is also a budding surgeon. The two main characters are cocky, arrogant and rude. They face each other when they try to stop their sibling/ friend (played by Aftab and Amrita Arora) from marrying.
In each other's ego trip they try their level best to break up these two. There are bets placed, accidents and what not. The humor changes into some sentimental drama (dont worry only for about 20 minutes) when KK and Akki realize that they have fallen for their biggest enemy. Characters are woven around these two central characters to provide even more humor. There is a random character of Mr. Keswani played by Javed Jaffery which just gets you rolling on the floor with laughter.
The first half of the movie is extremely funny. The second half opens with a bang with Akki hearing the Om Mangalam chants every where around him. It gets a little dull in between and a little too foolish in the end. A tribute to Sunny Deol is given by Sylvester Stalone in the end.
Akshay is funny as always with his expressions and acting. He looks cool in his new mohawk like hairdo. Kareena is hott. Although in parts she looks too skinny. Javed Jaffery is howwlarious. Aftab is ok and Amrita gets to enact herself on screen (a dumb girl) and does a good job. Sylvester Stallone adds star power. Denise Richards gets to act bollywood style in the end.
Sabir Khan doubles up as a co-writer and director and has a done a good job with whatever content he was provided with. Ishita Moitra has co-written the script and screenplay. But the clear winner is Anvita Guptan with her dialogues. It got me reminiscent of Kadar Khan's witty one liners in the David Dhawan era.
Music by Annu Malik is very peppy and hummable. But the chart stealer is RDB's Om mangalam. This song is a chart-buster. Although none of the songs make the story flow, they are shot very well which makes them a pleasure to watch. Not to mention the lyrics which are absolutely funny. My favorite line being "Kehti hai ki Taare dila do, maang mein fir mujhko saja do; Antariksha ka kya theka liya hai, bhaade pe kya rocket liya hai? ".
Rating: *** (Great watch if you are a fan of this genre).
Spoiler: The awesomest joke ever.. Javed Jaffery cons the hot dog seller by showing him a needle(sui) in the hot dog. He goes like "I am gonna sue you for this. You will be the suee(needle) and I 'll be the suer(pig). :)
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