On the day of Vijay Dashmi, two bombs land at the box office. The fortnight of Shraddha is over and many more are in line to make a bang at the box office. They say around 350 Crore of Rupees are stake on the film that will be releasing by the time every one is the country starts playing crackers. But for the time being lets talk about this Friday that lays a red carpet for a debutant director Saurabh Narang in 'Vaastu Shashtra' and another attempt to mix the comedy with sex. Mallika Sherawat leads the second band of Bollywood wannabees in the film 'Kis Kiski Kismat'. The film is directed by no other than Govind Menon who made the whole country talk about nearly two dozen kisses thrown on actor Himanshu Malik in his last film 'Khwahish'.
Bollywood moves on these types of gimmicks some time but not every time. So we have a film titled 'Kis Kiski Kismat', that boasts of being a great film and also that makes so much noise for its lead actress Mallika Sherawat that one starts thinking what so big about this mediocre looking girl who is hell bent in throwing away her clothes in public. People have rejected her in 'Murder' and 'Kis Kiski Kismat' only seems to give final verdict for the actress that if you do not have talent in you, only skin show can not take you very far in a field where people pass many years in struggling with loads of talent in them.
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'Kis Kiski Kismat' starts as a family drama, take a turn to be a sex-comedy, in between also tries to sail on love boat and finally lands in a mess that was the only end that this film could have seen with such kind of cast and crew. 'Kis Kiski Kismat' revolves around a bimbette Meena Madhok (Mallika Sherawat), she happens to meet a millionaire stockbroker Husmukh Mehta (Dharmendra) by chance. Husmukh in his attempt to correct a mistake takes Meena to buy some costly things but the people around them think other wise.
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Gossip mill works overtimes and soon people start thinking Meena as Husmukh's mistress. As it was not enough we have another angle added to the story. Humsmukh's son Harish (Siddharth Makkar) falls in love with Meena. Meena does not know that Harish is son of Husmukh Mehta. Things move on in such a way that soon Meena becomes talk of the town and Share Market watches her each and every step very closely. The sensex get associated with the pulses of the bimbette and time comes when Husmukh is on the verge of being bankrupt. The good lasso comes to his help but the one confusion leads to another and the situation becomes so confusing that even the confusing climax cannot get out of the confusion.
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If you can get any thing out of this story line, you are as brave as those who watched the film on the very first day. The film has no direction and with a director like Govind Menon in commander's seat, it was more pathetic to see such a film on the festive day. Govind Menon may have conceived the film in a very novel way but his execution of the same has failed miserably. His vision lacks the feel of the pulse of those who make a film click. Menon has infused his vision of comedy so much into the film that it suffers a lot. There was no need of adding a love track to a film, which already has a unique setting for the story.
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Had the film totally concentrated on the confusion in relationship of Meena and Husmukh it could have been a better project, but the makers of the film seems to have succumbed to the demands of the heroine to bring a young man in the film as her lover. The gang of the comedians namely Tiku Talsania, Satish Shah and Kurush Deboo only make things worse. They play their characters as if they have just come out of some soap opera. A good plot sees the adversaries of a bad script. The writers have falters in making the film take many tracks simultaneously and it is pity of the makers that they still continued to believe on their writers. The film has nothing to boast off; even the plot points are so weak that one finds it very difficult to hold on the interest in the happenings on the screen for its whole duration.
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Another point that makes the film go down is performances of its cast. His fans have loved Dharmendra for years; now what he wants to prove with these kinds of films is beyond an explanation. If he is doing these film for the sake of money, then his sons Sunny and Bobby must look into the matter otherwise there is no reason why such a loveable man is doing these kind of trash and film makers are trying to bank on him by publicizing the film as his come back. He fails to impress at all in this film. He should take a permanent retirement from the film gracefully if he is not getting some thing great to act on screen.
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And, for Mallika Sherawat writing on the wall has become very clear, her figure is not such that will make millions mad every time she shows her panties in public. Her show is a no show now, as people have seen every part of her skin in her last films. She has nothing to offer new now and until she learns basics of acting her career hands in danger. Debutant Siddharth Makkar is let down, his face does not emote at all and its better he takes acting classes to before doing another film. 'Kis Kiski Kismat' also lacks good music. Music director D. Iman seems to have been heavily inspired by likes of M. M. Kreem and others, and fails to come out with even one hit song. On the whole, 'Kis Kiski Kismat' is a no show and its future at box office is very bleak.
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