Priyadarshan is a director of contradiction. In 2008 his Tamil movie Kanichivaram won the national award and in 89’s and 90’s he has many commercially successful Malayalam movies to his credit. Then he ventured into Bollywood taking the safe route of remaking his Malayalam hits and turning many into hits again. But the problem in rehashing the old movies is that few of the movies thought successful during that time frame would fail to entice the present audience. Khatta Meetha is one such story, where the audience finds nothing new in it.
On other hand we have Akshay Kumar a super star on his own right but aware of leveraging it. Unlike the Khan stars, Akki is a common man when it comes to show biz who cannot position his star value to pedal up further. So you see him in big ventures like Blue and then you also see him in a seemingly low budget movie like this. I am not suggesting he gets trapped into stardom but he could do well by choosing movies that justified his new found stardom. Khatta Meetha definitely is not a movie meant for superstar like Akki.
Sachin Tichkule (Akshay kumar) is a struggling civil contractor who seems to be eternally doomed since he does not have money to bribe and get his files moved. While his brothers are successful civil contractors thanks to political connections and greased palms. Sachin is mocked and disrespected by everyone at home except his sister who loves him. To make matter worst, the new municipal commissioner (Trisha) happens to be his ex-girlfriend. With all this we have a khichidi of events like the bridge built by his brothers collapsing leaving many dead, the brothers framing their driver (Tinu Anand, a talent gravely wasted), death of Sachin’s sister, a character trying to expose the corruption in the bridge collapse (Makrand Deshpande, yet another talent wasted) etc.
I fail to understand how a smart dressed, cool looking Akshay as a college guy as shown in the brief flash back turns to be a caricatured, or to borrow the words of Rajeev Masand “Jackass” character, when he becomes a struggling civil contractor. Does the body language turn so Jackass including the walking style?
Trisha looks pretty but the dubbing voice plus the lip sync seems like a mismatch. Couple of songs by Pritam is good to hear but boring to watch.
GingerChai Verdict: Low in Meetha.
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Though Priyadarshan has made several good movies in Tamil, his foray in to Hindi as a comedy film maker is disappointing. But he is HIT here too because very few comedy film makers are available. In my view ‘Tere bin Laden’ is a short budget and better comedy movie to watch.
ahh I guess priyadarshan has over used the formula. It is time for him to change and bring something innovative for the viewers.
I had to watch this movie out of family pressure and Gawd! it was bad!Why on earth were everybody in the movie screaming their lungs out???!!