Kis Kisko Pyaar Karu
Genre: Comedy
Director: Abbas Mustan
Cast: Kapil Sharma, Varun Sharma, Manjari Phadnis, Simran Kaur Mundi, Elli Avram, Sai Lokur, Arbaaz Khan, Manoj Joshi, Supriya Pathak, Sharat Saxena
Kapil Sharma brings his show to the big screen with a two-hour long gag fest that brings back the Gharwali Baharwali kind of comic chaos back in business. On the surface it is harmless humour where punchlines keep coming as Kumar Shiv Ram Kishan keeps shifting floors smoothly to be with his three wives. Accidents have brought them together and the boy doesn’t want to reveal the truth. Don’t ask why for logic is in short supply here. He has a girl friend and her demanding father to please as well. In short there are all the elements that can light up the eyes of a Priyadarshan or a David Dhawan. Though they have a Baadshah to flaunt, comedy is a relatively new territory for Abbas Mustan, the masters of thrillers. They take time but once they connect the effect is suitably rib tickling.
Together with Varun Sharma, Kapil ensures that the silliness keeps going. Newton becomes Nutan and gravitational pull acquires a whole new meaning but towards the intermission when Kapil delivers a monologue in a drunken stupor, you realise the comedian can make you believe in the bizarre. It is a tough art to make the loony sound rational and getting the masses eat out of your hands. He has done it all these years on television and here again he shows the talent to fit into the larger than life space.
The production values are a little tacky and with Abbas Mustan concentrating more on presenting Kapil on expensive automobiles wearing expensive suits than the script, the first half-an-hour suggests that this is going to be a torture but as the plot unravels Kapil, backed by his trusted writer Anukalp Goswami, keeps the fans in good humour.
Like Govinda he adds a dash of innocence to supposedly lewd situations and double meaning dialogues. It is a kind of cinema that works as long as you don’t scratch the surface because underneath there is a misogynistic tone which could not be hidden beyond a point. With three wives and a girl friend, Abbas Mustan try to give their hero a mythical sanction by naming him as Kumar Shiv Ram Kishan. As long as the film doesn’t take itself seriously the layers don’t matter but when the narrative starts giving sermons suggesting a woman’s life is not complete without marriage even if she has to live with a man who is already married twice, it hurts. Such lopsided simplification could have worked in the 90’s but today it is hard to digest. When the central conceit is explained like an accident, it works for a while but when the hero is presented as a saviour of sorts, it disappoints.
The girls play along with Kapil and seasoned players like Manoj Joshi and Supriya Pathak join the party without affectations. Watch it if you are Kapil Sharma fan.
