The point of a sequel is you must, ideally, recall, if not actually care for the original, i.e. Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon (KKPK)— let alone whether it was a hit, hence fit for this theatrical revival.
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 review
Director: Anukalp Goswami
Actors: Kapil Sharma, Tridha Choudhury
Rating: 1 star
The point of a sequel is you must, ideally, recall, if not actually care for the original, i.e. Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon (KKPK)— let alone whether it was a hit, hence fit for this theatrical revival.
The latter’s unlikely. It would’ve made the then debutant lead actor, still India’s top TV stand-up comedian Kapil Sharma’s career in the movies, as a result.
It’s been exactly a decade since.
From my expressed memory of the film (that is its review then), Abbas-Mustan’s KKPK — sex-comedy about a filthy rich husband, with three frisky housewives — was a semi-fine guilty snigger, for a home-view, at best, if you could get past its crappy, cardboard aesthetics.
My only visual memory of the movie is the three wives simultaneously waving goodbye to the same hero, from their separate balconies.
There’s a shot like that in this second part too, that’s been produced by Abbas-Mustan, instead of the ’90s blockbuster duo directing it this time on.
And which, I believe, has emerged from the writer-director Anukalp Goswami having cracked an idea to build a franchise around. That’s what’s got everyone, from Kapil, cast and crew excited to re-hit the floor.
What’s that big idea?
That there’s a Hindu boy (Kapil), in love with a Muslim girl. Neither family approves of their marriage. They could elope, I guess.
But the Hindu boy converts to Islam, and that’s good enough for him to marry his Muslim girlfriend — who’s a runaway bride, still. Why?
She thought she was being married off to someone else. The dad (Vipin Sharma) wanted to surprise her at the wedding. What?
The hero’s family hits him on his head, and marries him off to a Hindu girl, the same night. The same boy, from Bhopal, meets a Christian girl at a church wedding, and marries her too, because her groom ran away.
So, now we have the crazy lead Mohan with two aliases, Mehmood and Michael — switching between three performatively Muslim, Christian, Hindu households, instead of even once wondering, where his actual girlfriend has disappeared to!
Why’s he entertaining three dumb behenjis in the bikini state of Goa, dancing with Honey Singh, honeymooning with them, simultaneously?
You might think I’m giving away the entire film’s plot? No. All of this, as set-up, occurs within the first 20-40 minutes of the 140!
How do you entertain this Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2, from hereon — kaiko?
Well, not that hard to screw logic, damn the idea, if there’s a Govinda-like ’90s, early 2000s style hero, adlibbing his way through boisterous mannerisms, smart one-liners, and quick comebacks.
For instance, through Instagram reels, I sense a sure resurgence of even the Priyadarshan comedy, Garam Masala (2005), about Akshay Kumar rotating between three air-hostess girlfriends!
KKPK 2 is similarly centred on Kapil Sharma, with Navjyot Singh Sidhu, his laugh-mate from The Great Indian Kapil Show, offering an odd sorta voice-narration.
The state-run bar Wind and Waves in Bhopal has been renamed Kap’s Café. Mercifully, the thoroughly replaceable leading ladies in the movie aren’t crossdressers.
Couple of issues: Kapil feels quite whittled down as the chick-magnet hero for such a madcap comedy. There are better gags on an average episode of his sketch-comedy show.
Yes, there are a few fine sermons on ‘sarv dharma sambhaav’ (equal respect for all religions). But that’s in the Indian Constitution. Would rather read it there. Everybody should read the Constitution!
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