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#Khoobsurat is Sonam Kapoor's best film. Fawad Khan so charming. Kirron Kher will make u laugh @sonamakapoor @KirronKherBJP @_fawadakhan_

#Khoobsurat makes you live, laugh and cheer throughout , transporting you to a happier and safer place.@sonamakapoor as Mili is effortless -

contd-So honest&adorable.Yes,like Mili @_fawadakhan_ ko dekhkar hume bhi gande gande khayal aa rahe the congrats @RheaKapoor great job!

Just watched Khoobsurat. Loved it. Way to go @sonamakapoor. And girls, watch out for Fawad Khan, the new eye candy who can really act!

• By Manjusha Radhakrishan, Senior Reporter
• Published: 15:51 September 18, 2014

Director: Shashanka Ghosh

Starring: Sonam Kapoor, Fawad Afzal Khan, Ratna Pathak Shah, Kirron Kher

Rating: 3 stars

Shakira once observed, "Underneath your clothes, there's a story." Clearly, she hadn't met a certain Ms Kapoor who has clothes, many clothes and just clothes that my-daddy-richest' showcases every now and then in a film or two. I can almost imagine the conversation between the actor daughter and producer papa.

"Dadddyyy... uummm... I have shopped so much... all my parties fall short to showcase my new wardrobe... what to dooo..."*puppy face*

"Don't worry beta..." strokes his beard, "Jhakaas, Rhea beta let's rehash an old classic, watsay?"

So last time it was Jane Austen who twirled like a top in her grave after Aisha's release. This time it is our very own Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

But Khoobsurat is not a bad film. Okay, let's just say it wasn't as offensive. I was sceptical because you don't touch a Hrishidaclassic, especially not the one that had memorable performances by Rekha and Dina Pathak, but the film didn't ruin the old classic so badly. So what's the difference between the old and new Khoobsurat? In a line, it's like a rainbow puked all over the old Khubsoorat on its Disneyland vacation in Rajasthan.

Mili (Sonam-Chanel-goes-high-street-Kapoor) is a physiotherapist. That's established well with deep insightful dialogues like, "Aapki taango mein sensation hain...aap theek ho sakte hain." She comes to the royal family of Rathores and discovers that there is an unsaid, unspoken competition of snobbery --- a grumpy wheelchaired father, a disciplinarian mom, a frustrated daughter and a busy son. And like all good physiotherapists in the world, she gets the royal daddy back on his feet, literally and helps the ambitious daughter realise her dreams, loosens up the uptight her highness and in the process kisses the prince and breaks his engagement with a certain Kiara (Aditi-ab-side-roles-milenge-kya-Rao.)

If old Khubsoorat was about the clash of lifestyles between two families, the new Khoobsurat is more about the young couple's love story. And hence how the snooty sasu maa has a personality transplant in the end looks slightly superficial and contrived.

But the film doesn't bore you at any point. If Dil Kabaddi used the technique of talk to the camera' to reveal the inner battle/confessions of its characters, Khoobsurat has the invisible thought bubble' technique. Behind their happy-hello-how-are-you smiles, both Mili and Vikram whisper through their teeth and greet each other with tags like, "khadoos" and "aafat." Full points to director Shashank Ghosh for canning some interesting scenes. For instance, there is a beautiful scene in which Mili and Vikram meet to talk how cool' they are after their first kiss. The unspoken dialogues (like invisible thought bubbles) reveal how badly shaken up both are under those we-are-cool-unaffected' facades.

Sonam Kapoor plays the clumsy Mili and manages to impress occasionally but the problem is that she never surrenders to the character completely. The invisible Chanels and Guccis come in the way. She might call her mother with her name and scream "MANNNJUUU yaar" but falters at many occasions to play the loud Delhi lass. There is something too petite, too posh about her, even when she crushes papad with her manicured hands or makes gargling sounds when she downs wine. Her acting is much like how she speaks in real life -"Ummm...you know like...ohhh myyy gawwwddd...but you know like...like but you know...like...whateva!" Though I must admit she has an undeniable star presence and a gorgeous, infectious smile and that works well for her in the film.

Fawad-SUAVE-Khan is simply FABULOUS! Under his sharp suits and I-am-ready-for-a-GQ-shoot look, he packs a controlled, underplayed performance as he portrays Vikramaditya Rathore. The man has big, dreamy eyes and makes good use of them on various occasions in the film.

Ratna Pathak Shah tries her best to fill in mommy's big shoes (Dina Pathak) as she plays Niramala Devi but suffers heavily from the Sarabhai hangover. I could almost see her address Mili as Mooonishaaa and add a that's too LS' at the end of her sentences. But she scores high in the climax of the film when she breaks down and bursts into tears.

Kirron Kher, despite her 38963th Punjabi mom performance, does evoke a few hearty laughs but she really needs to discover new characters or newer ways of portraying Punjabi moms. She no longer plays a Punjabi mom these days but cuts, copies and pastes her last Punjabi mom performance that turns these characters into caricatures. Taking a cue from Amrita Singh in 2 States won't be a bad idea.

Khoobsurat is pretty much like Sonam Kapoor and her collection of bags, clothes and shoes --- feel good, easy, breezy, gorgeous and inoffensive. Watch it once. It won't hurt.

Khoobsurat Movie Review

Rating:

SPOILERS ALERT

Who doesn't know that remakes of movie classics can be seriously risky business? Many in the Mumbai movie industry have in recent times made a complete hash of a rehash and burnt their fingers real bad.

But not so the makers of Khoobsurat.

Shashanka Ghosh's lively update of the unforgettable 1980 Hrishikesh Mukherjee comedy makes more than a fair fist of an obviously onerous task.

The Quick Gun Murugan director is quick on the draw here, and hits his stride right from the outset.

He opts for merely the kernel of the old idea, throws in a few new madcap twists, and then serves up the gleaming cocktail in a pretty tall glass that doesn't crack under the weight.

Khoobsurat, buoyed by an incandescent Sonam Kapoor, a rock-steady Fawad Khan and a fabulous supporting cast, is smartly crafted, well acted and endearing. Well, for the most part at least.

It is a rare Bollywood romp in which everyone involved, on the screen and off it, seems to be having an unabashed blast.

The enthusiasm inevitably rubs off on the final product, making it funny without being unduly fluffy.

One key driving force behind the original hit was the brilliantly workaday dialogue penned by Gulzar.

The remake may not be quite up there in that crucial respect, but the writing is infused with enough wit and intelligence not to be an effort more scintillating in ambition than execution.

The middle class milieu of yore is replaced here with a sprawling palace in Rajasthan run with an iron hand by an uppity maharani, Nirmala Devi Rathod (Ratna Pathak Shah). She brooks no transgressions in the household.

Enter garrulous and unbridled physiotherapist Mrinalini Mili' Chakravarty (Sonam Kapoor). Her brief is to get the royal patriarch Shekhar Rathod (Aamir Raza Hussain) off the wheelchair that he has been trapped in for the past decade.

Mili quickly realizes that there is a man in the house far more interesting than the morose maharajah - a dashing but deadly boring prince who only talks shop, Vikram Singh Rathod (Fawad Khan).

Between clicking selfies in different eye-popping parts of the palace and chatting on Skype with her motor-mouth mom back in Delhi - the young lady decides to stir things up a bit.

She is a noisy eater, has questionable table manners, drinks wine straight from the bottle, and thinks nothing of joining the kitchen orderlies in a riotous binge.

The rule-book is repeatedly thrown at her, but the half-Punjabi, half-Bengali big city lass cares two hoots about the funereal air that hangs over the family and focuses solely on finding ways around it.

But this guest is more than just any odd blissfully ignorant outsider - she is a full-blown rebel who believes in doing exactly as her heart desires, a trait that is actively encouraged by her mother.

The inevitable clash that ensues between carefree Mili and no-nonsense Nirmala Devi forms the crux of the plot, but the rest of the story pans out very differently from the way it did in the Hrishikesh Mukherjee film.

By not following the known script in its entirety, the peppy Khoobsurat acquires a degree of freshness and unpredictability that is appreciably accentuated by the uninhibited cast.

Sonam Kapoor dives enthusiastically into the role of the bubbly Mili and comes up with a delightfully droll star turn, investing the character with both elfin charm and infectious goofiness.

Fawad Khan provides the perfect foil, delivering an impressively consistent performance.

Ratna Pathak Shah and Aamir Raza Hussain (both wonderfully in sync with the demands of the screenplay) add to the uniqueness of the casting.

Wish one could say the same about Kirron Kher, who repeats her done-to-death loud, loquacious, irrepressible Punjabi mom act yet again.

Not that Kirron is any less competent than she usually is, but her overtly hammy performance appears a tad out of place in Khoobsurat.

The pitch that she adopts belongs elsewhere in the Bollywood entertainment spectrum, not in a film that is otherwise so refreshingly far removed from the run of the mill.

It is quite another matter that Kirron Kher, with her rat-a-tat punchlines, will probably get the biggest laughs of all.

Among the brighter elements of Khoobsurat are the wonderfully off-kilter compositions by music director Sneha Khanwalkar.

What helps the songs sound even better is the fact that they are not staged in the conventional manner.

The exchanges between two opposites - serial rule-breaker and staid royal scion - play out on a dual track, one through the spoken lines and the other through an audio approximation of graphic novel thought bubbles.

That device adds to the humour quotient by underscoring the glaring gap between what is going on in the minds of the two protagonists and what they actually end up saying to each other.

In the end, Khoobsurat is a pretty good show. It is both funny and flashy, but its many flourishes are delivered in measures that religiously avoid excess.

Rating - 3.5/5

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