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Khoobsurat' Movie Review

Khoobsurat' directed by Shashanka Ghosh and staring Sonam Kapoor and Fawad Afzal Khan in the lead roles releases today and the movie doesn't fail to impress.It tells the story of Dr. Milli Chakravarty (played by Sonam Kapoor) who is a physiotherapist and has worked with IPL team KKR is given an assignment to treat the paraplegic Raja of Sambalgarh, Rajashthan. A happy go lucky Delhi-based girl lands in Raj Mahal where everyone lives a disciplined life where even laughing or smiling is like an alien activity. It is here she finds Shekhar, a wheel-chaired old father who gulps wine every now and then, a strict as Hitler mom Nirmala Devi Rathore (Ratna Pathak), a trapped daughter and an always busy on his android and in business meetings son Vikram Rathore (played by Fawad Khan). Now how Milli breathes and battles it out in this big cage and brings a different fortune with her chirpy attitude during her stay for the paraplegic father forms the crux of the story and Shashanka narrates this beautiful love tale through Khoobsurat'.
The asset of Khoobsurat' are undoubtedly it's actors. The chemistry between the lead pair is sizzling. Their interaction is portrayed so skillfully that nobody has anything to complain but to adore the glorifying feels that's the outcome of the hushed moments they share. Kirron Kher and Ratna Pathak Shah give Khoobsurat' the required support and momentum. Kirron Kher, who is mostly seen in online chat sessions with her on screen daughter is delightful. She plays the role of the big mouthed mother effortlessly and is still capable capable of tickling your funny bone. Ratna Pathak Shah displays the strictness required of her role effortlessly. Sonam Kapoor is charming as a vivacious physician while Fawad Khan effortlessly steps into the shoes of the boring prince fighting internal battles after he falls in love with the doctor visiting his house. Music by Sneha Khanwalkar, Badshah and Amal Malik lends a great feel to the movie. Overall, Khoobsurat' is definitely a must watch movie.
Published OnSeptember 19, 2014by Team Television World |77Views |

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Rating: ***

A modern day fairytale, loosely based on the Hrishikesh Mukherjee comedy of the same name, helmed by Sonam Kapoor? I dreaded going into Khubsoorat', plagued as I was by dark thoughts of Kapoor's previous botched attempts at carrying off real characters, which ranged from the terribly twee (Aisha'), to the mercifully short (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag').

One of the most pleasant surprises of Khubsoorat', I'm happy to report, is that Kapoor is not half-bad. She is well suited to the film's general tone which is suitably perky and giggly, and unapologetically silly: Kapoor's introduction has her character give off an unselfconscious titter , and that sets the tenor for her, and the film.

Dr Mili Chakravarty (Kapoor) shows up at a rajmahal' which has a wheelchair-bound morose middle-aged noble (Hussain), his discipline-loving martinet of a wife (Shah), and their children-a daughter on the point of rebellion, and a dishy son (Khan) who roams about in vintage cars, striking deals involving mouldering castles and their reluctant owners.

From the first frame, you know that the film is set up as the coming together of the motor-mouth prole Mili and the high-nosed prince Vikram Singh Rathore. What saves Khubsoorat' from drowning in predictability are the unexpected touches, woven into the writing, and some spiffy acting .

The film brims with standard tropes: jodhpurs and jeans, stuffed shirts and stiff upper lips, loose-limbed girls going bakar-bakar', khammaghanis' and bristling saafas'. This is Rajasthan, so of course the 'rani sahiba' is immaculately coiffed and wears bespoke printed chiffons and fat pearls, the raja sahib' twirls his wine glass and rolls his Rs. The handsome scion is worthy and well-dressed and betrothed to a beauty (Hydari) who looks as if she would fit well into their lifestyle of dinner at the stroke of eight, and a starched napkin beside the plate, please.

Into this becalmed set-up arrives Mili, the girl who will do everything wrong, but will ultimately set everything right. And everything goes down just the way it should, scattering a bunch of smiles as it goes along.

The plot, and pace, slackens in between. The song-and-dance bits are completely superfluous, even if the lyrics and the tunes are spirited. But the rest compensates. Kirron Kher as the down-to-earth Punjabi mother, who could easily sleepwalk through the role given how much practice she's had at it, has the film's best lines, and makes us guffaw. The gang at the palace- the frosty mama bear who will melt, the grouchy papa bear who will throw out a leg, the oppressed girl who will burst free, and the frog who will learn to pucker up- are all up to the mark.

The frog aka the Pakistani hearthrob Fawad Khan, who has amassed a mammoth following in India after his brooding turn in a popular TV serial, makes his Bollywood debut here. He didn't make me sigh, but he catches the eye, and does well enough for a prince-cum- maindak'. And Kapoor, after a false over-bright, high-pitched start, settles into her part.

What you see is what you get with our Mili, and Kapoor plays her right, without letting the effort show, and that's what works for the part, and for her. I only wished her deliberately mismatched outfits didn't scream see, see, I am so delightfully un-cordinated therefore daffy', but it did help in un-Disney-fying her and grounding her.

Khubsoorat' is bubblegum-y and air-headed and good-natured, and its biggest strength is that it keeps it consistent, becoming one of those films that over-delivers precisely because it under-promises.

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