Kambakkht Ishq

Kambakth ishq might leave you with an upset tummy, definitely not because of laughter.


The film is a fuhad farce about the battle of the sexes. Viraj stuntman in Hollywood, thinks women are only good for making love. Simrita certified man-hater, thinks men want just one thing (not hard to guess, again) from women. The two are pitted against each other when Viraj’s brother Lucky and Simriti’s friend Kamini get married. Both Viraj and Simriti don’t approve of the marriage and try to break the match. From then on Viraj and Simriti keep bumping into each other – in airports and planes, in exotic Italian towns and in operation theatre in hospitals.

Director and his band of writers (Kiran Kotrial, Anvita Dutt Gupta, Ishita Mohitra) seem clearly clueless where to take the story so they keep spinning it in circles and throw in a couple of Hollywood faces like that of Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards and Brandon Routh to flaunt to the audience how Bollywood has graduated from desi item babes to videshi atom bombs.And having run out of the ration of gags, the director gives the story a few melodramatic twists in the end.

Wow! That’s innovative! So we see Akshay giving emotional award-acceptance speeches and feeling the kick of his conscience when he gets the chance to bed Kareena. Ironically, it’s here, when the movie wants you to take kerchiefs out, that you laugh genuinely at the sheer foolishness of the kitschy sentimentality. The brand of humour that dots ‘Kambakkht Ishq’ has already been exemplified. The less said about the music the better.

The dialogues are so sleazy that you’ll keep shying away from the aunty sitting next to you. For the most part Akshay calls Kareena ‘bitch’ and she likewise calls him ‘dog’. Among performances, only Akshay shows his characteristic sparkle here and there. He’s the one who makes the movie worth sitting through while Kareena, playing a surgeon part-timing as a model, overacts most of her part. Neither the anorexic Amrita Arora nor the brooding Aftab are funny. The same goes for who hams through his role of a man looking for opportunities to mint money out of lawsuits. If only he could be sued for his terrible performance. Last words – ‘Kambakkht Ishq’ may get footfalls in theatres but the film is a damned dead comedy. Watch this no-brainer at your own risk.