Cast:Vivek Oberoi,Mallika Sherawat,Ashutosh Rana,Neha Dhupia
Director: Sanjay Khanduri
Indian Express Rating:*1/2
What do you do after youve made a striking first film,which tracks a guy through a night in Mumbai as he falls in and out of hilarious adventures? Why,you do the exact same thing. Just switch Mumbai with Delhi,and the’local’ with the ‘metro’,and hope that it will come out the same.
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Sanjay Khanduris Kismet Love Paisa Dilli acronyms to that which cannot be expanded or explained in civil society. But it did get in a bunch of young fellows into the theatre for the first-day-first-show,all primed for the promise the films title held out. The director didnt disappoint them : there is enough in the films fabriccrude,rude,vulgarthat can keep the most expectant fellow happy. The lines are full of allusions to private body parts and bodily functions executed in private,and of course theres a ‘rape joke. The leading man is sufficiently potty-mouthed,and pee-oriented too. The row ahead of me was in splits half the time : I had a tough time sitting through this one.
Its hard to believe the same director made Ek Chalis Ki Last Local,which gave us Abhay Deols lovely playing of a luckless lad stumbling through a host of riotous situations. Vivek Oberois loutish Lokesh Duggal aka Lucky has no such luck. His companion is a curvy chick called Lavina (Sherawat),who,we are asked to believe,belongs to one of Delhis prominent educational institutions. Who just happens to be a hostess in a skinny sheath at a party where there are squealing queens (a prominent designer is called Rohit Pichwadia,sigh) corrupt politicians,gun-toting henchmen,suitcases full of crores,a tape with a sting operation on it,all converging with a van being driven by four Jat goons.
If it werent for a few tolerable moments between Lucky and Lavina,I would have run right out of the theatre. There are elements here that make you think wistfully of mad capers and insane fun. Kismet Love Paisa Dilli is most definitely not that film. shubhra.gupta@expressindia.com
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