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Ki & Ka Reviews by Critics

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Ki and Ka has received mixed reviews from critics. We have compiled 12 reviews so far, out of that 8 reviews are 2.5 stars or higher. At the bottom of the page, you can find the list of top rated films of 2016.

Average Rating of All 'Ki & Ka' Review - 2.5 stars

Ki & Ka Review by Indicine

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All good. But Ki and Ka is a great opportunity lost, because while the concept is novel, the writer (R. Balki himself) does not go the full distance in making a film that is thought-provoking and real. In fact, for a film that promises to be unconventional, there are quite a few dialogues that are cliched and regressive. The pacing in the first half is a problem too. The film meanders along at a slow pace in the first hour, but gains momentum in the second. The light-hearted moments between the lead couple are entertaining and will be loved by the fairer sex. The music goes well with the film, High Heels is the best track followed by Ji Huzoori. The camera work (P.C. Sreeram) could have been better.

Ki & Ka Review by Bollywood Hungama

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One really needs to applaud the film's writer- director R. Balki, who has dared to live up to the term of being different' with this film. With this film, he has tried to redefine the quintessential hero' that the silver screen has witnessed so far. The best part about the screenplay is that it just does not come across as superficial at any point. The film, in totality, has been wonderfully conceived, beautifully written and splendidly enacted by the starcast! Besides it successfully conveys a powerful message. All of R. Balki's earlier films like CHEENI KUM, PAA and SHAMITABH, despite having quirky storylines, never challenged the obvious. But, with KI & KA, R. Balki challenges the stereotypical role of a husband and a wife in the society. In simple words, one can say that KI & KA has traces of the Amitabh-Jaya starrer ABHIMAAN minus the melodrama. The film has its share of blemishes as it slows down in the second half but picks up pace in time towards the climax. There are certain places where the story seems to lag.

Ki & Ka Review by Lokesh Dharmani on Masala

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Ki And Ka suffers from lazy, confused, amateur writing. There is out-of-character behavior and illogical scenes inserted in the name of feminism. Sample this: The husband accuses the wife of adultery when she gets busy with an American marketing big shot at a corporate do. She shouts and screams and even slaps him. And then they do exactly what a couple in such heightened emotions must do: make love!

Ki & Ka Review by Rohit Vats on Hindustan Times

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It's the lead actors' spontaneity that saves this 126-minute film. Both Arjun and Kareena look at ease and are ably supported by Swaroop Sampat and Rajit Kapoor. Kareena Kapoor's best comes out in the scene where she delivers a long monologue on being manipulative. Only if the dialogues could have been as natural as her. Arjun Kapoor focuses on being the most lovable male around and succeeds. Too much breakfast and coffee table drama make this well intentioned film lose steam. Ki & Ka isn't a strong voice against gender stereotyping, but it's one of its kind in mainstream Hindi film industry, and that makes it notice-worthy.

Ki & Ka Review by Saibal Chatterjee on NDTVMovies

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A concept film that has a lot to say - Ki And Ka actually succeeds in getting a few of its points in edgewise - but the writing is below-par. As a consequence, Ki And Ka is like a string of patched-together monosyllables that never attain sustained coherence.
In seeking to break gender stereotypes, the film actually ends up reinforcing them.

Review by Manjusha Radhakrishnan on Gulfnews

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Kareena is engaging to watch, while Arjun does his best to make Kabir endearing. He is good, but we wish these two were given a stronger script to wrestle with. The cameo from Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan is fun to watch, but they doesn't have the collective power to elevate this average film into a spectacular one. Just like a marriage that has seen better days, this film was potent with promise but doesn't cash in on its potential. Reserve this for a one-time watch.

Review by Meena Iyer on The Times Of India

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Kareena is terrific, Arjun, endearing. But Balki's writing is inconsistent. A few scenes leave you misty-eyed, but for the most part, the stock situations are banal. Yet, Ki and Ka is worth a ticket because it tells shows how there is nothing wrong with the man wearing the apron and the women wearing her ambition.

Review by Tushar P Joshi on Bollywood Life

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There isn't enough diversity or scope to develop these characters beyond the obvious in the film. And that's a big bummer. We are stuck watching long drawn monologues and back and forth banter between Ki and Ka who argue about their personal beliefs and values. We are never explained why Arjun doesn't want to work. What's driven him up the wall to the extent that he wants to become a stay at home husband? And there's nothing wrong with him making that choice but we wish Balki had given us a better backstory. The songs are a distraction to the lack of a better plot and don't really take the story anywhere.

Review by Sukanya Verma on Rediff

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Balki treats success like an evil in his story, triggering a feeling of neglect in one and jealousy in another. It's at this juncture; Kareena Kapoor Khan proves what an asset she can be. Her incandescent beauty exudes easy warmth and professional poise as per the occasion. The actress smoothly transitions between fragile and volatile to reveal a woman comfortable in her own skin, unapologetic about living life on her terms and never missing an occasion to mince words. A special appearance by Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, as themselves, even if gimmicky in nature, works as an amusing slice of celebrity life providing a catalyst during a stalemate in Ki & Ka's. Ultimately, gender describes but doesn't define a person. There's no breakthrough in swapping roles. If anything, it only confirms how superficial the conflict is. At the end of 126 minutes, Ki & Ka figure this out too. But is there a need for definite roles at all is what it should be asking.

Review by Jaidev Hemmady on Movietalkies

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The characters too don't seem well-developed. Kia, a self-assured and confident woman, suddenly starts behaving like an insecure teenager just because her husband was invited on a few chat shows, which seems quite juvenile. We wish Balki would have come up with something real serious to justify the cracks between Kabir and Kia. The fact that Kabir mellows down with minimal efforts after Kia behaves like a shrew is also something that is tough to digest. Though the concept is something that we have never seen before, the story doesn't touch us or affect us in any way or makes us sit straight and exclaim Wow'. Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan have a cameo appearance in the film and the two simply own the scenes they appear in with their delightful comic timing and evergreen chemistry. In conclusion, Ki & Ka' remains a film with a unique concept, but without a soul.

Review by Ananya Bhattacharya on India Today

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Ki And Ka might feel like the two longest hours of your life. Balki sets out to demolish stereotypes, but in the process, ends up affirming them even more. Watch it only if you swear by Kareena or Arjun. Or good germs of films spoilt by bad execution.

Review by Shubhra Gupta on Indian Express

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With Ki and Ka', Bollywood has got to the point of being able to place a man willing to be home, knuckle down to dull domestic chores, and wave the flag for ambitious women and progressive men. So hurrah for Ka and Ki and Balki? Yes, but only up to point. The film is fun when it is setting up the roles. But the execution, as it goes along, gets rocky. Much of it stays episodic, and starts reinforcing the very stereotypes it set out to negate. And so much of the writing is so explicatory that you begin wondering if the filmmakers really take their viewers for People Who Do Not Understand Anything Unless It Is Underlined Thrice Over.

Review by Sarita A Tanwar on DNA India

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The film loses momentum mid-way. The idea is stretched too thin and the climax is cheesy. The film tries to stay real for most part, but in the last scene it attempts to be silly-cool. In the real world, ego problems between couples do not get sorted by enacting scenes from the past. The problem with Ki and Ka will be finding an audience that can relate to it completely. It is meant for the urban multiplex audience. The male folk may not find it relatable because they are all part of the rat race. Ditto for the women, because how many of them really play the traditional housewives? Or even wear mangalsutras for that matter? The characters become caricatures after a point and that is really disappointing because you really want to cheer for this daring film.

Review by Shubha Shetty-Saha on Mid-Day India

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What doesn't work for the film is the constant onslaught of in-film marketing. Though it is done pretty cleverly at some points, too much is always a bad thing. The other thing is that the plot tends to get unnecessary gimmicky at points. Also, one wishes that the other characters like Kia's mother (Swaroop Sampat) as the liberated woman who runs 5 NGOs and Kabir's father, Mr. Bansal (Rajit Kapur as a successful businessman) were not confined to such tight boxes.

Review by Martin D'Souza on Glamsham

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Kareena Kapoor shows that she is still in control when she has a convincing role to portray. There are intense moments in the film in which she stands out. Arjun Kapoor is more laid-back. There is no urgency in his approach to a role that required him to take care of the house. His body language is stiff and non-committal. KI & KA, if it was scripted well, could have made a powerful impact. Unfortunately, there are only a few endearing moments and a few moments like these does not make a good film.

Ki & Ka Review by Indiaglitz

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Ki & Ka' is like having an old wine in a fancy bottle presented in a totally interesting manner. The family audience will enjoy the role reversal part from this movie, while others will find hard to digest this film due to the lack of conviction factor, followed by weak screenplay and repetitive elements which are stretched to the fullest.

Review by Pallavi Patra on Zeenews

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Ki & Ka' is a seemingly funny enterprise with a feminist theme gone awry. It's not the theme that is at trouble here but a laid-back script coupled with an ostensibly manufactured chemistry between its promising leads. Watch it or not, Ki & Ka' prefix will enjoy its dominance over the youth - but cinematic wise - not a good picture here.

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The only reason its getting 2.5-2.75 stars is because of concept. Otherwise would get somewhere around 1-1.5 stars.

No doubt the concept is interesting but trailers showed they weren't able to execute it. Cant do much with pathetic actors like arjun kapoor

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Ki and Ka has recorded 15-20% occupancy in the morning shows in all over India. The opening is similar to the previous releases of this year. As none of the film has taken a good initial so far except from Hollywood release Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. The opening is very poor at single screens while it is slightly better in multiplexes.

The film has got a poor stat and now it will all depend upon the growth in the evening shows. Though India's campaign in the world cup has ended which can give a boost to Ki and Ka.

Going by the early trends, Ki and Ka 1st day collection can be in the range of 5-6 crore. The final numbers can vary depending upon the growth in evening shows.

The film has received mostly mixed reviews so it will all depend upon word of mouth. Also tell us your thoughts on

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Brilliant, subversive, progressive. What a film. My four-star review of R Balki's fantastic #KiAndKa: https://rajasen.com/2016/04/01/review-r-balkis-ki-ka/...

<h1>Review: R Balki's Ki &Ka</h1>
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As a Bengali, I have traditionally struggled with the Hindi language, and particularly its ideas of gendered grammar, thestree-lingandpul-ling. Growing up, I was flummoxed by the fact that the word Police, in Hindi, is a feminine one, which doesn't quite match up to the visuals of mustachioed constables demanding a little something " or, for that matter, even the moustache itself, the word "moochhein", being akirather than aka.
It was thus with some expectation of (at least grammatical) subversion that I walked intoKi & Kawhich promised, in its tagline, thatstree-lingandpul-lingare the same thing. But no: in this film the Ka " as in the Ka-poors, who act in the film " are okay, it is the Ki " as in Bal-Ki, who directs it " who stumbles rather badly. The film aims for something progressive in an attempt to strike a blow against traditional gender roles, but only presents us more stereotyping. It is a good-natured but thickheaded film, one that has too little to say to justify its feature-length running time.
The film opens with Kareena Kapoor, stretching her acting chops to the limit while pretending she can't dance. She's downing whiskey at a wedding she doesn't like, and when asked by a prospective suitor if they should hit the floor together, she fobs him off by blaming her menstrual cycle, shouting aggressively about having her period. Um, okay. Moonlight and waltzes may well be related, but this certainly seems a step too far.
On a flight, she meets the whimpering Arjun Kapoor, and the two start hanging out together, which seems weird. She's understandably curious about this crybaby who heralds his ambition to be like his mother " how unbelievably outr, the makers feel " but he relentlessly keeps negging her, mocking her ambitions while celebrating his own. That, to be fair, may be his whole play: telling this stunning woman her nose looks like baby-corn and her hair like spaghetti could well be the most clutterbreaking move of all.
These two kooks decide that they can split home and workplace duties without conflict, and he proposes marriage which ticks all the right boxes in her head. Her mother, played by the excellent Swaroop Sampath, is intrigued by this union of two people who share a birthday with the day the Titanic sank, and " apparently not believing in remembering too many dates " suggests they marry on the same day as well.
The writing is painful right from the start " the first half-hour of the film, in fact, is the most unbearably moronic. For a while there I gave the film the benefit of the doubt, thinking that caricaturish broadstrokes " she works on Sundays, he reads cookbooks in bed " might be the director's unsubtle way of getting the equality point across. This idea is emphasised by the way Arjun recites his lines like he's in a musical without music, but soon it becomes clear that the film is as dimwitted as the protagonists.
The film starts off saying that men and women can each do what the other can, but it splits the union unfairly, making the woman skeptical, shrieky and given to paranoia while the level-headed man is notjusta TEDx-speaking oil-endorsing chef, but also one who can provide a Dharmendra moment' whenever the wife most needs one. Groan. Watching the amiable, ambling Arjun Kapoor play a fitness instructor is just one of the few things that beggars belief in this film.
Meanwhile, the arguments that have some steam also amount to nothing. Kareena is at a business dinner, having a conversation when Arjun sidles up and interrupts her mid-sentence, asking when they can eat. She understandably cuts him off, but later in their room " completely out of nowhere, completely out of character " he accuses her of sleeping her way to success. She lambasts him, saying his noble homemaker ambitions and talk of progression are just a front and his thinking is typically petty, and as an answer he... Kisses her. Because what better way to resolve an argument than shutting someone up? (For good measure, while they make out, Balki keeps cutting to ejaculatory shots of fountains.)
The film's cinematography is another massive blunder. The great PC Sreeram works his focus-puller overtime as he shoots characters in close-up and then pulls out and pushes in, like a schizophrenic drunkard trying to eavesdrop. It's massively distracting, and instead of lending dynamism the the scenes, it ends up taking away from the conversation. Visually, the film is made bizarre anyway by the hero's obsession with trains, an obsession that turns a perfectly nice flat into something rather psychotic, where a locomotive runs through the lunch table. This idea of making the boy a man-child " who likes toy-trains and goes to buy milk on a Segway " is a trope that doesn't work at all in a film that is trying to stress his maturity.
<p>The rest is bilge " but bilge, you see, that knows when and how to make room for shameless product placement. This film is funded, I assume, mostly by the skilful way adman Balki makes sure the one lamp in a hospital room is placed just right, so you can see the brand of suitcase the heroine prefers.
There is, however, one great scene. It is one where Jaya and Amitabh Bachchan, playing themselves, sit and discuss the idea of a woman working while a man handles housework. It is a finely written scene " when she says he can't even boil water, he reasonably enough says he'll hire help " and Mrs Bachchan even conjures up the image of Amitabh looking over the kitchen while she goes out to give the Sundaydarshan, a visual that seems alarmingly unthinkable today, and one that evokes memories of their classicAbhimaan, one of the best films made about marriage and ego.
As for the current actors, Kareena looks dazzling and holds up her lines quite well, even when the script needs her to fly into reasonless rage, while Arjun lumbers through his part likably enough. Ah, where we could have ended up, given a genuinely clever script...
Ki & Kawants to be important, it wants to be revolutionary, it wants to be a feminist statement of equality. Admirable, sure. But it doesn't know how. It is a film that thinks it knows better, but really " really " doesn't. This is a film without breasts that desperately wants to burn a bra.
Rating: 1.5 stars
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The only reason its getting 2.5-2.75 stars is because of concept. Otherwise would get somewhere around 1-1.5 stars.
No doubt the concept is interesting but trailers showed they weren't able to execute it. Cant do much with pathetic actors like arjun kapoor

I agree concept is do good but too bad bad execution 🥱 and bad direction I told u yesterday..n now many critics r saying balki underperformed.

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Now only udta Punjab can save bebo but even that isn't a BO movie

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Now only udta Punjab can save bebo but even that isn't a BO movie

shahid kapoor movies hardly work. He is a flop actor with good fan following. He is pretty rare case.

As for kareena, she couldn't reinvent herself like Priyanka did. Priyanka's hollywood success wasn't overnight. Something these all ageing actress should learn from.

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Gosh the reviews are so bad.

The only good reviews are coming from the industry-wallah or Kareena's die hard fans.

Arjun is walking away with all the praise. Balki seems to have flopped in the second half.

This was the first film in so many years where Kareena had a chance to recapture some lost glory, but seems to be a lost opportunity.

However I still might go to see the film because despite it's flaws, it seems to be adequately entertaining and I fancy eating popcorn while listening to the songs on the big screen!

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Ki & Ka First Day Early Estimate

Friday 01 April 2016 20.00 IST

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Ki & Ka has followed a similar path to Kapoor & Sons on day one and has seen a pick up in the evening and will finish with similar collections. It good go a little higher due to the slightly wider release. The early estimate is around 6.75-7 crore nett. The trend is also ditto of that film as the pick up has enabled the film to get decent collections in the same places which is mainly Mumbai city, Delhi NCR, Pune and Bangalore.

Basically the evening crowd in urban centres has come for the film and the growth in business on Saturday and Sunday will tell whether this crowd has appreciated the film or not. Despite the pick up the film will still have to show that 30-40% growth on Saturday which would give the film a chance to succeed.

The best figures will come in the Delhi NCR area with Delhi city, Noida and Gurgaon putting up healthy numbers. As usual with these type of films collections outside the big metros are dull. Big A centres like Jaipur, Ludhiana and Lucknow are poor.

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Ki & Ka First Day Early Estimate
Friday 01 April 2016 20.00 IST
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Ki & Ka has followed a similar path to Kapoor & Sons on day one and has seen a pick up in the evening and will finish with similar collections. It good go a little higher due to the slightly wider release. The early estimate is around 6.75-7 crore nett. The trend is also ditto of that film as the pick up has enabled the film to get decent collections in the same places which is mainly Mumbai city, Delhi NCR, Pune and Bangalore.
Basically the evening crowd in urban centres has come for the film and the growth in business on Saturday and Sunday will tell whether this crowd has appreciated the film or not. Despite the pick up the film will still have to show that 30-40% growth on Saturday which would give the film a chance to succeed.
The best figures will come in the Delhi NCR area with Delhi city, Noida and Gurgaon putting up healthy numbers. As usual with these type of films collections outside the big metros are dull. Big A centres like Jaipur, Ludhiana and Lucknow are poor.

thats decent. considering begum is done and dusted and arjun a nobody.