~~ Khoobsurat Reviews + BO Figures - PART2~~ - Page 51

Originally posted by: kinjalshahshah

i am still confused why Overseas numbers are not included..who gets them??

Originally posted by: BollyFanLuver

Oh no, you didnt!😡🤣

God forbid! Touch wood it doesnt happen. Dont give them any crazy ideas yaar!😡😆

Nah what happened with DEI is a strong signal to other small fries though: dont come for FawadFever unless you are a biggie!😆 Plus FF was a wake-up call for BFF: she wont believe her own hype anymore now!🤣

Originally posted by: DY.chakravarty

Actually Finding Nanny budget is more or less with KS which is around 12 cr. but I guess due to BFF+ cousin combo, they sell it to distributor high, up to 32 cr. that why it is flopped even the first weekend indeed perform decent for 900 screens. The second weeks suffered the most. DRASTICALLY. 3.5 cr for 2nd week. But KS could get 8cr

By:Paromita Vohra


After the collective sighs of people swooning over Fawad Khan caused a dramatic storm last week, I felt I should go see what the fuss was about. My findings: Fawad Khan vakai hot hai.
However, I left the film feeling it was not Fawad Khan but I, who was khoobsurat (not only because I am one of those impostor girls with a Bengali name who's actually Punjabi, hee hee). That almost never happens after any commercial film.
Once most Hindi films had strong love tracks. No one labelled them films only for men or women. Now, rom-coms are often called chick flicks, implying they are spawn of a lesser cinema. In the film class I am teaching this week, nearly every student saw Haider, not a single one saw Khoobsurat. They looked a bit alarmed that the teacher had.
But, the romantic comedy is an interesting, even influential space, which works out changing relationships between men and women, shifting notions of heterosexual romance. Sometimes a great one comes along, like Band Baja Barat.
Khoobsurat is not, in that sense, a landmark of the genre, suffering as it does from a chaotic script and a first half that seems uneasy with itself, rushing away from a scene before its quite begun, like a skittish playboy.
But oh, it could have been! Here's a film that loves women with a big-ass heart.
It's deeply empathetic to their particular loneliness, the way in which they need love.
With a rather sweet and loving man by her side, Kirron Kher is able to go around freely dispensing her overbearing, interfering, bosomy love. While Ratna Pathak Shah with a distant man luxuriating in his own self-hate, finds herself alone and does her best with a kind of assumed bossiness. And behind Sonam's exasperating exterior (and scatter shot performance), its clumsy bravado, we see the bruised heart of a girl who feels not quite right because she feels not quite loved as she is.
The biggest relief of Khoobsurat is that women are not de-sexualized- nor do their parents expect them to be. Sonam's Mili frequently gets 'gande gande khayal' (for a Disney film) and discusses them with her mom. In this, the film has a far more radical heart than the lovable but squeaky clean Queen because it doesn't place women so squarely in the frame of sociology.
The film is equally empathetic to its men - they are not macho and masterful, but tentative and confused as well, yet eventually loved. And it manages to avoid the temptation of turning the romantic competition into a vamp.
If you are a woman who is a bit 'too much' --who has always felt little loser-ish compared to the thin girls in beige dresses and hair that stays in place, who has never been short of men who seem to enjoy you, but always decide you're too much to handle, leaving you in a hole of self-doubt that takes a lot of climbing out from - Khoobsurat makes you not care that you don't look like Sonam.
The film is uncommon in engaging with love as a concept. Love heals the maharaja's body and Sonam's tentative heart. Love liberates the prince from his template and unlocks Ratna Pathak's tenderness. Heck, love even offers a counter to capitalism, a different way of doing business. Love, we see, can be late, but it's never too late.
I wish Khoobsurat had been much closer to perfect, less ungainly. But, the love in the film, its khoobsurat khayal, makes me love it back. After all, as with the film, love is never 'correct' but it is always right.
http://www.bangaloremirror.com/Columns/Others/Finding-Indian-Love-A-thing-of-beauty/articleshow/44758578.cms

from Box Office India