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Ratings:1/5 Reviewer:Rajeev Masand Site:IBNLive
Visit Site for MoreWhatever else you do, don't forget to carry cotton for your ears when you're heading off to watch Khatta Meetha, director Priyadarshan's loud and outrageously insensitive new film.Disguised as a comedy, Khatta Meetha is in fact a drama about the deep-rooted corruption in our system.But Khatta Meetha,
a remake of Priyadarshan's own Malayalam film, Vellanakalude Naadu, is
a seriously schizophrenic film. I'm going with a generous one out of
five for Priyadarshan's Khatta Meetha; this is cinema at its most tasteless.The movie ends with a music video in which Akshay Kumar dances to a song titled I'm allergic to bullshit. If indeed those words were true, we wouldn't have to watch this film!
Ratings:3/5 Reviewer:Nikhat Kazmi Site:TimesOfIndia
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Khatta Meetha, he tries to multi-task, once again, slipping from social
satire to comedy in order to create a light-hearted comment on India's
bumbling, bribe-prone bureaucracy and unprincipled political class.
Does he succeed? Yes and no. First, the highpoints....The film boasts of
three wild and whacky comedy sequences which almost bring the house
down.Add
to this, a few more snippets of fun and games, and you have an
outrageous comedy track, that sadly comes in bits and pieces only. And
herein lies the tragedy of Khatta Meetha. The film is too long and has
too much of high-pitched drama, leaving room for too little of the
laughter circus. Now this does seem irksome, specially since the comedy
bits crackle with such fun, they leave you desperately hungering for
more. What's more, the drama is mostly repetitive.Tune off a bit for the tedious middle and you could be in for some fun and frolic in Khatta Meetha,
Ratings:1.5/5 Reviewer:Taran Adarsh Site:BollywoodHungama
When Priyadarshan and Akshay Kumar joinVisit Site for More
hands, you expect the cineplex to reverberate with laughter.
Unfortunately, KHATTA MEETHA is noise [the actors scream a lot in this
movie], more noise [the great promotion] and only noise, while the
content takes a complete backseat. Although KHATTA MEETHA shouldn't be
compared to this combo's earlier works, since this one's a satire, I
have to add that this is their weakest film to date.KHATTA
MEETHA raises a finger at the corruption in government establishments,
but what it tries to say, or expose, has been witnessed over and over
again. In fact, it's the writing -- sorry, the absence of it -- that
makes matters worse. The beginning is good, the middle falters and the
end is exasperating.
On the whole,
KHATTA MEETHA is a major letdown from the accomplished director. It's
not a full-blown comedy. It's not a full-scale satire either. Hugely
disappointing!
Ratings:1.5/5 Reviewer:Sukanya Verma Site:Rediff
Priyadarshan's Khatta Meetha is a part-funny, part-furiousVisit Site for More
take on prevalent corruption and red-tapism through the misadventures
of its chief protagonist, Sachin Tichkule. The deal with Mr Tichkule,
promoted as the R K Laxman-inspired voice of common man, is that it's
more Bollywood than comic strip. As opposed to Khatta Meetha, the
cartoon as well the original Malayalam movie Vellanakalude Nadu, are
both strong on subtlety and aesthetics. Moreover, Khatta Meetha
projects itself as a witty satire with reference to someone as reputed
as Laxman but its uneven mood shift from ironical to intense augmented
by cheesy dialogues like 'Keechad mein baithe suwar ki tarah sust kyon
ho?' begs you not to be taken seriously.And, well, you comply.
Ratings:1.5/5 Reviewer:Gaurav Malani Site:Indiatimes
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lacks wit and sarcasm and by no means can be termed as a political
satire. Rather it’s a blatant and full-blown melodramatic tale of
corruption that one has witnessed in zillion films before. The writing
branches into too many subplots from politics, family, romance but seems
disjoint rather than appearing multifaceted. The family
characterizations of a powerless patriarch (Kulbhushan Kharbanda),
scheming siblings and the ridiculed younger son protagonist (Akshay
Kumar) are quite reminiscent of Anil Kapoor’s Saaheb. In the last scene of the film, Akshay Kumar casually comments, “ mujhe kuch waqt ke liye shanti chahiye
” (I need peace for sometime). He pretty much resonates the sentiments
of audiences who have been seeing him repeat the same loud and
caricatured characters in the name of comedy. Khatta Meetha ends up leaving a bad taste in your mouth.
Ratings:2.5/5 Reviewer:Komal Nahata Site:KoiMoi
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film has a hotch-potch story and a hackneyed screenplay which cares
little for logic and a lot for convenience.A major drawback of the film
is that what begins like a comedy takes a rather serious turn after
interval and becomes a family drama thereafter. The look of the film,
its making, the ambience, all give the viewer the feeling that he is
watching aSouth remake of the eighties, an era gone by.
What’s Good: Some comedy sequences, a couple of songs.What’s Bad: The very convenient screenplay.Verdict: Khatta Meetha is for the masses and the single-screen audience, not so much for the multiplex audience.
Ratings:2/5 Reviewer:Shubhra Gupta Site:IndianExpress
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Tichkule is a regular fellow all right, but not as bumbling and naïve
as he’s been before. It’s not like he’s been cast in a mint-fresh die,
but there’s just about enough to keep you going for its nearly three
hours of running time. Just about. A
couple of things stop this from being a good Priyan movie. It is
criminally long, burdened with flat comedy tracks as faulty as Sachin
Tichkule’s roads. Plus, the film veers uneasily between heavy emotion
and loud comedy, another perennial Priyan problem. There are also a few
objectionable scenes in a film which will be viewed by families with
children.Laugh out loud would have served `Khatta Meetha’, and us,
better. It’s been too long since Priyadarshan served up one of those.
Ratings:1.5/5 Reviewer:Pankaj Site:Glamsham
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of Priyadarshan and Akshay Kumar (HERA PHERI, BHOOL BHULAIYAA, DE DANA
DAN) fails to entertain this time. Priyadarshan falls short to render
the issue of corruption, which Rajkumar Hirani did effectively in
portions of LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI. It has the right intent but offers
nothing which we haven't seen. The screenplay gets monotonous with
Sachin Tichkule constantly borrowing money, his numerous tiffs with
Gehna, perverted acts of Rangeela (Rajpal Yadav) and random songs.KHATTA MEETHA isn't sour or sweet. It's simply bland.
