Ki & Ka Movie Review

R Balki comes up with the most unique ideas, infuses them with an amazing energy but in his eagerness to impress, he loses all subtlety. Kareena Kapoor Khan and Arjun Kapoor-starrer "Ki and Ka" has created quite the buzz with its storyline, but the film has failed to live up to the expectations.

Directed by R Balki, the film features Kareena, Arjun in the lead roles, Swaroop Sampat, Rajit Kapur as the supporting characters and Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan have done a cameo in the film.

Kia (Kareena Kapoor) and Kabir (Arjun Kapoor) get past their meet-cute in a tearing hurry, and jump into an exchange of garlands and glands. Ka rolls out of bed, picks up after his office-going wife and mum-in-law (Swaroop Sampat), lays out steaming hot food ; Ki cracks open her Mac, and delivers smart campaign ideas to her advertising agency colleagues and goes up the corporate ladder. She is into marketing; he is busy home-making, and they are happy playing footsie. And then jealousy rears its ugly head, and the lines Ka and Ki had set up for themselves start to blur. Who will go out? Who will have a public face and high profile? Who will stay in and cook fresh? Will a Ka be happy to be called ‘nikamma’?

The film evades that problematic one neatly by a too-convenient plot twist, involving Ka’s disapproving papa (a permanently sneering Rajit, who is never given the chance to smile through the film) who thunders on about ‘ ‘mards’ and, haha, cautionary ‘chhaddi checks’. The problem is the film’s unwillingness to go the mile and really explore what that ‘nikamma’ could do to the male ego. Ka, poor fellow, is a victim of confusion. He may say he wants to be like his mummy. He may adorn his wrist with a ‘mangalsutra’, hoho, but has no problem in using his legs to kick louts. He is shown hosting kitty parties and urging fat aunties into shape: huge stereotypes, dear director and writer, connecting all your jolly housewives and ‘kitties’, and stay-at-home ladies and bulges; tsk. When Ka is not doing all of the above, he is busy wheeling his trike up and down certain heavy-traffic bearing Delhi roads – these are roads, any Dilliwala will tell you, where only trucks and buses and cars carrying passengers will traverse. Couldn’t they find a residential colony?