You take a fairly good looking dude; around him you throw half a dozen girls all of who are interested in knowing his sun sign. Needless to say he wants to bed all of them. There’s flirtation, lust, sex and a rude awakening. All this could make for a piping hot Love Khichdi. Alas, it doesn’t.
Too many parallel tracks spoil the script. Director Srinivas Bhashyam takes a titillating plot but tries to cram it up with every possible masala to pander many palates. The result is a true hodgepodge in the name of a sleazy rom-com.
The story revolves around Veer Pratap Singh (Randeep Hooda), a chef in a hotel. He is gifted with looks that make women go weak in their knees. Just a slight calculation, a little maneuvering and right moves on his part, and the girl comes running into his arms. There’s his skimpily clad neighbour (Riya Sen), a bookshop owner (Rituparna Sengupta), a Punjabi neighbour (Divya Dutta), a feisty model (Jesse Randhawa) and the men-devouring business executive (Kalpana Pandit). All eye him. And the insatiable Veer still hungers for more. He ogles at his maid (Sonali Kulkarni) and fantasizes about her. Among all there’s only one girl (Sada) who’s his real friend. He doesn’t lust for her. But she loves him; secretly though.
It’s not hard to guess how the story unravels; how the promiscuous protagonist realizes the importance of love over lust.
The trouble with ‘Love Khichdi’ is that after the initial half an hour, the story doesn’t progress much until the latter part of the second half when the film becomes a tad serious. Till then, the story keeps switching from the track of one woman in Veer’s life to another.
On top of it, Randeep Hooda isn’t as funny as his character demanded. True that the actor seems bursting with energy and joie de vivre but he’s unable to convincingly bring about the transition in his character as the story draws to its conclusion. Among the actresses, Sada makes an impression, so does Riya Sen and Divya Dutta. Sonali Kulkarni as the man-hating maid is a delight to watch.
If only the movie was equally funny. In the second half it keeps stretching on and on and you lose interest in the proceedings and simply hope that one of the hot babes would pop out of the screen and take the vacant seat next to you. Alas that doesn’t happen and you have to swallow the bitter reality of having wasted your time and money on this humdrum flick.
Movie Review : Truly a hodgepodge! (3/10) By Nikhil Kumar
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