Hindi Film review
Johnson Thomas
Catering to your
‘baser’ instincts
Film: Lucky Kabootar
Cast: Eijaz Khan, Ravi Kissen, Kulraj
Randhawa,Shraddha Das, Sanjay Mishra, Madhavi Sharma
Director: Shammi
Chhabra
Rating: *
This one is an utterly
trite attempt at comedy and it’s definitely not pleasant in the least. ‘Lucky Kabootar’ is definitely targeted at
those who get a rise out of risqué behavior and shabby, insensitive attempts at
humor. The film appears to be driven by a romantic-comedy plot-line but neither
the romance nor the comedy is justified well enough to be classified as such.
Lucky(Eijaz Khan) is a
down on his luck salesman, selling tractors and he is married to Lakshmi
(Kulraj Randhawa) –a woman who he makes no bones of being disgusted by.
Kammo(Shradha Das), the local goon(Ravi Kissen)’s sister is the love of his
life. Lucky goes to the extent of visiting a resident Baba, Sexy Das(Sanjay
Mishra) who looks like a cross between Satya Sai Baba and Rajneesh , to win
Kammo’s heart. Sexy Das performs obscene acts, talks in double entendre and has
a complement of female disciples pandering to his every whim(sexual and
otherwise). The Baba’s most favored disciples are called Hard drive and Pen
drive. The intention behind that is quite obvious(hic). Thanks to Sanjay
Mishra’s tongue-in-cheek performance, and his attempt to lend his character
perennial villain Jeevan’s style in terms of dialogue delivery, there are at
least a few moments of levity.
Unfortunately , the scripting lacks direction. It appears as though a certain formula was
decided upon first before the plot was given any shape. So the form and content
here are distinctly unsavory and lascivious.
A married man’s
unfulfilled desire for a woman other than his wife, is not a plot that is new
to Hindi cinema so there is nothing distinctive here other than the sexual
innuendos and bad sex jokes that litter the dialogues and make them sound
tasteless and crass.
The turn of events that
allows for Lucky to lose his wife, win a windfall and also get Kammo in the
bargain, is orchestrated so amateurishly that it looks and sounds absolutely
weird. To top it there are sequences of ‘shradh/ death rites’ being conducted
to keep up appearances, while the object of the ‘shradh’ is alive and watching
the proceedings.
Obviously, the title
refers to Lucky’s sudden wealth and the fact that before the windfall , he was
a diffident and foolish young man who had no value for the wealth ( his wife,
aptly named Lakshmi)he already possessed. Kulraj Randhawa appears to have lost
the plot after a successful debut with ‘Yamla Pagla Deewana.’ Despite her
pleasant , though unaffecting performance, she is unlikely to win any fans with
this severely deluded outing.
Crude sequences
masquerading as semi-eroticism make the goings-on quite cringe inducing.
There’s also a botched-up attempt to
portray a gay Punjabi as hirsute and effeminate- the contrast looking
absolutely outlandish and quite simply , unlikely. To top it, he is called
Pussy. Then there is this lady politician who doesn’t think twice before
mispronouncing standard hindi words and making them sound like deliberate
sexual innuendos. There’s also this woman who is so wildly in love with the
goon that she drenches herself in milk at every opportunity while the camera
goes slow-mo on her obvious assets, just
so that she can draw his attention to her. Such obscene references are
definitely disrespectful to the character types and make the entire wildly
careering narration look totally
outlandish. Don’t risk your peace of mind on this one!
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