Khatta Meetha Review

Movie name: Khatta Meetha

Starring- Akshay Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Urvashi Sharma, Rajpal Yadav, Johny Lever, Makrand Deshpande, Milind Gunaji, Kulbuhsan Kharbanda, Asrani and Aruna Irani,

Director- Priyadarshan

Producer-Akshay Kumar

Music Director-Pritam Chakraborty, Shani

Genre- Satirical drama comedy

Rating- **

Khatta Meetha movie is really a khatta meetha experience. Launched and promoted in a pompous manner promising to deliver laughing riots falls miserably in everyone’s expectation. This is the weakest movie made by Priyadarshan till date. The aki and priyardarshan duo that has always managed to create great comic movie ended up being nothing more than disastrous in this movie.

Khatta Meetha is more of a collage of isolated incidents encompassed in within its duration. The collapse of the bridge, the consequent murder of Tinnu Anand and Makarand Deshpande, the constant bickering in the house, the tu-tu-main-main between Akshay and Trisha, the sister’s track, the corrupt netas and government babus, the payment issue of workers. It feels repetitive after some time.

The film reveals the extent of corruption and bribery rampant in the system and the ingenious means you have to adopt if you want to survive in today’s times. Priyadarshan tried to make a satirical movie of this but lost its track. There are so many things going on simultaneously while at the same time giving you a lacking feeling that something is out of place. It is difficult to actually point out what the movie is dealing with. Guess Priyadarshan had many things going on his mind while working on the script. Though it has been informative and surely gives you insight of the contractor dealings. There have been few high notes in the movie that bangs the audience right on place. While, rest of the movie is too loud without the script really speaking out anything.

‘Jack of all trade masters of none’ phrase surely suits this movie. There are too many concepts and plots to tackle that finally everything goes haywire. The romance between Trisha and Akshay Kumar is negligible and looks non- existent. Justice is not done to Trisha as to her potential she exudes in Tamil movies. Again, she has played her role to the best but casting was the problem. There are few comic moments that take the movie to its peak and suddenly just crashes below the level. The ending is not polished, not that the whole movie is, but it could have concluded with a right note.

Urvashi Sharma is sweet. Makrand Deshpande and Asrani were wasted. Tinnu Anand is hardly there. Even Aroona Irani is sidelined. Kulbhushan Kharbanda was strong. Manoj Joshi screams too much. Ditto for Neeraj Vora. Milind Gunaji is okay. The actor playing the role of Urvashi’s husband does a good job.

In whole it surely leaves the audience with Khatta Meetha experience and literally dumbfounded not knowing they should have expected more or less.