Review : Aap ki khatir

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Genre : Romantic Comedy
Year : 2006
Running time : 2 hrs and 8 minutes
Director : Dharmesh Darshan
Cast : Priyanka Chopra, Akshaye Khanna, Amisha Patel, Suniel Shetty, Anupam Kher, Lillette Dubey, Dino Morea

AAP KI KHATIR : Unfunny and uninteresting !

This film deserves one classification : junk. I saw this film by fast-forwarding the most uninteresting bits (which were many) but even a fast-forwarded 130 minutes of this film is too long. It’s a rip-off of the Hollywood “Wedding Date” and pretty much copies it without a thought. And it’s directed by Dharmesh Darshan – the one who did the abominable Bewafaa – so, yeah it’s worse than you expect.

First of all, my dears the acting is nothing to write home about. Darshan picks the choicest of non-actors : Chopra, Shetty and Patel. Khanna is OK, but that hairstyle really sinks him; what is with the delicate tendrils of hair framing his face ? Such a pity that neither of Vinod Khanna’s sons have inherited an ounce of his charisma. Then Darshan goes overboard on all his characters, making them caricature-like in their jovialty and accentuated emotions. Add to that Himesh Reshammiya’s songs which pop up every 10 minutes and you have a disastrous banshee of a film.

Anu (Chopra) is a UK-based Punjabi girl working and living in Bombay because of her unhappy break-up with Danny boy (Morea). Now, 3 years later she must head UK-wards to attend her step-sister Shirani’s (Patel) wedding. But still pining for Danny, she hires an escort Aman (Khanna)to act as her boy-friend to make Danny jealous. Punjabi kudi Shirani is marrying Gujju Kunal (Shetty). Both have very ethnically over-done parents – she has the stereotypical loud and over-bearing Punjabi parents and he’s saddled with the accented Gujju parivar. Of course Danny is at the wedding because he’s Kunal’s best friend. However he is well over Anu and has other fish to fry . . .

If this film had any redeeming qualities, I would tell you, I would. Honest. But it has none. The heroine is pretty but dumb. The hero is cute but has a bad hair-do. The actors who can act (Kher and Dubey) are given ridiculous roles and leave-you-numb lines. The rest of the cast are cringe-worthy. The screeplay and story are poor (even the ripping-off is done pathetically), the film lacks pace and it’s pretty un-funny.