Luck lustre

 

 

Romantic comedies are usually enjoyable if you empathize with the characters, or if they are hilariously funny, or both. Kismat Konnection, sadly, is neither and turns out to be a pedestrian piece of film making being peddled as a vibrant film. As you come out of the hall you can hear people murmuring “Shahid toh abhi bachcha hai... acting seekhna baaki hai” or even more hilariously ripping apart, the by now infamous dressing style of Vidya balan... “why does she try to look happening when she has no clue of even how to carry off a basic western dress!”

Try as you might, you’ll find it difficult to identify with Raj Malhotra (Shahid Kapur), a bright but down on his luck architect, looking for that one big break. Through a fortune teller (Juhi Chawla’s otherwise brilliant comic timing is wasted in a role lacking panache and even a half decent name—Haseena Bano Jaan is tacky even by this movie’s low standards) he finds his lucky charm Priya (Vidya Balan in a plastic effort) and the challenge for the rest of the movie is whether Raj would manage to cling on to his lady luck! The story navigates the hazy realm between the imaginative and the implausible and the dialogue does nothing to make you laugh (wasn’t it supposed to be a comedy in the first place?). The music which was a major promotion point is also unremarkable and adds nothing to your viewing experience. The only moments the screen flickers (seriously, there’s nothing that makes this movie ‘light up’ on the screen) are the ones when Himani Shivpuri (playing Om Puri’s garrulous Punjabi wife) enters the scene, but pity that her interjections are rather brief. Keeping all of the above in perspective, it would be a challenge for you to sit through the movie let alone relish it. Not that Aziz Mirza films have ever been extra ordinary, but at least he knew the art of telling a basic story – not to forget that he gave us the extra ordinary Nukkad, one really does wonder whatever happened to even that.