SoggyCornflakes - Bollywood

For the first time ever, I watched a Bollywood movie within a week of it's release, so I thought I would try my hand at a movie review as well. So here goes...

Name: Kismat Konnection (Destined Connection)
Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Juhi Chawla, Vishal Malhotra, with a special appearance by Boman Irani.

What can I say about this movie that hasn't already been said? By the way, this review is going to have spoilers, so if you haven't watched it and you don't want to know plot points, then you might want to give this review a miss.

The movie: Yes, it was a bit cliched at points, but isn't that the fun thing about a cute, light movie like KK? That you can predict what's going to happen and then smile to yourself when you find out that you're right? The nicest thing about this movie is that it made sense...I'm sick of Bollywood movies where events happen without any explanation. Some might say that Raj's reasons for not telling Priya the truth from the beginning were a bit dodgy, and I guess I can see their point. Honesty is the best policy...but how can you have a climatic ending if there isn't a conflict? I mean, the stupid fiance removed himself from the picture...there had to be a problem for them to sort out by themselves.

Predictable Flash: As soon as Priya met Boman Irani's character and took him to Raj's meeting, you should have known who he was.

The Actors: Shahid was excellent, in my not-so-humble opinion. His character could be serious and then playful in the blink of an eye. Thoroughly likable, especially since we all have those days where everything goes wrong, and his despair and frustration at his bad-luck life was obvious.
Vidya was really good too. I don't think she looked much older than Shahid, although her character was too similar to her Lage Raho Munnabhai character...or was it just me who thought that?
Juhi was very cute as the fortune-teller, with the right combination of melodrama and comedy.
Vishal was...well, the sidekick? Shahid and him have a good friendship chemistry.

Mouth-dropping drooling scene: Shahid in the shower ;-)

The Music: You already know my opinion on it.

Best song: 'Soniye Ve' (the picturisation of the song was great...especially the scene where Shahid looks at Vidya and sings "Kehna sawa jho baat zabaan se, aankhon se meri parlein" [The things I can't say with my tongue, read them from my eyes] and he looks at her so intensely...swoon. Although those lines sound better in Hindi). I liked 'Is this Love' as well, and obviously, the addition of Shahid just makes the song ten times better.

Funniest Scene: I don't know if I had too much sugar or something, but when Raj and Hitin go to Priya's demonstration, I was laughing hysterically when they really got into the "Batra and Gill, Down Down!" chant. Nope, wasn't too much sugar, I still find that scene hilarious.

I think that's enough from me for tonight. You don't have to agree with my review but comments are always appreciated.

Apparently Shahid Kapoor was getting very bored in Canada because he found lots of time to play jokes on his co-stars during the shooting of Kismat Konnection.

The short version of the story was that co-star Vishal Malhotra (who also played sidekick Mambo in Ishq Vishk) was done shooting for the day and left to his hotel room. Director Aziz Mirza wanted to shoot another scene however and Shahid took advantage of it by calling Vishal and telling him that Aziz was quite upset that he left the set.

Shahid then told the crew to act very serious around Vishal, to give the idea that he was in really big trouble. As Vishal rushed back to the set, sweaty and out of breath, the crews attitude scared him until he ran into producer Ramesh Taurani, who gave the game away.

“I can't believe I actually fell for it. They all held up well, ”

“Thank god for Rameshji who gave the joke away. Thank God!

I was so nervous. Shahid and I have known each other from Ishq Vishk days and we keep pulling these wise one on others but never expected him to pull this one on me.”

“Look out Shahid I owe you one, ”

For those Shahid Kapoor fans who aren't surfing the net for Shahid news 24/7, you might have missed the new title song from Kismat Konnection. Check it out.

I don't think much of the song (it grows on you if you listen to it enough though) but it's nice that Vishal Malhotra has teamed up with Shahid again, they made a fun pair in Ishq Vishk.