review of khatta meetha by SIR Rubaid Ashfaq

Cast – Akshay Kumar, Trisha, Rajpal Yadav, Urvashi Sharma, Manoj Joshi, Milind Gunaji and Makrand Deshpande. Director – Priyadarshan.

Here is my review of the movie Khatta Meetha. The movie is about a contractor Sachin Tichkule played by Akshay Kumar who is based in his home-town of Satara district where his family is staying in a royal ancestor house. Sachin has three sisters of whom two have got married his brother in laws Manoj Joshi and Milind Gunaji, who are working in Municipality as approving Engineer and Contractor respectively . Third sister is Anjali played by Urvashi Sharma, a college going girl. The movie starts with Sachin Tichkule struggling to get a decent contract. He is overburdened with debt. He is a not so good son. He is a not so good contractor. But still he believes he can be a good contractor one day………

One night the bridge constructed by two in-laws of Sachin breaks down and around 65 people are dead. For which they try hard getting out with help of politician, trapping Tinu Anand as guilty and thereby closing the case. Here Sachin is trying hard to get his due of work-done for constructing the roads and files a case on Municipal Corporation for the claim. Enter Gehna Ganphule played by Trisha. She is a new Municipal Corporation and she values the integrity, Gandhiness, honesty and etc. A sudden flashback and we come to know that she was girlfriend of Akshay during his college days. They have a tussle and both moves on with life. Meanwhile Anjali – Sachin’s younger sister is being forced to marry to one of a corrupt politician’s brother, who is related to Anjali’s in-law brothers contracts. One night (again) she is found dead. After which Sachin decides to uncover all the villains of this movie with the help of, of course Gehna and Makrand Deshpande who had lost his dear ones in that accident.


Further, not discussing anything about the story I would like to set the record straight here about the movie itself. We have seen this Akki + Priyadarshan + Rajpal Yadav combination’s so called comedy for N number of times and add one more to it !!! It is not about common man as have been publicized. It is again a try hard comedy. It tries very hard but unfortunately not succeeding. The usual Akshay Kumar dialogs with usual Rajpal Yadav trying be a freak and in process being beaten by Akshay here and there, time and again. Johny Lever has a small cameo where he successfully manages to bring out some laughter. There is one incident of a road-roller and that one incident has been stretched to 45 minutes!!!!

The biggest disappointment comes from the Director itself. Priyadarshan has been serving the same food over and over and over again. The story writing is confused. Screenplay is shoddy. The dialogs are below par. Music disappoints with Preetam giving only one good song in “Aila re aila”. Not much to add in music department.

If we talk about performance, Akshay again tries his best to cover up the deficits of his director with his spontaneous performance. He does his usual bit with good effect. Urvashi Sharma has played her part very well. Manoj Joshi continuous his loud acting, where he left from De Dana Dan. Rajpal Yadav has done decent job. Milind Gunaji, Tinu Anand and Makrand Deshpand are wasted. Want to add something about Trisha in her debut Bollywood movie. She tries her best to spoil further the flow of movie with her under-trained acting skills, yap you read it right. Her role is thankfully not much which at best can be called as “extended guest appearance”.

Had only if the director would have thought that audience are nowadays not keeping their mind at home when going to a cinema hall. Had only if the director thought that the audiences are not dumb as his movie. Had only director thought an actor cannot all the time save his movies. Had only director gave a thought ………

Verdict – 2 stars out of 5 for Akshay Kumar carrying on the load and Twinkle Khannas concept, with very poor execution