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Critic Review
Ki & Ka (2016)The film starts off with a wedding party that Kia (Kareena Kapoor Khan) is attending. Every time someone tells her to enjoy the party, she picks up her phone and acts as if she is talking. When she leaves the wedding midway, she reasons her departure by a small talk on the position of a woman in today's society that stuns everyone present there. The film then 'takes off' to her getting introduced to a sobbing Kabir Saini (Arjun Kapoor) on a flight. When asked about his sobbing, she discovers Kabir to be a Mama's boy, who is missing his dead mother because it is her birthday. A few meetings later, Kia understands Kabir's reason to be non-ambitious while Kabir understands Kia's goals and aims in her life in the corporate race. One fine day, a train-passionate Kabir lands up proposing to Kia in a toy train yard, post which she gets him introduced to her broad minded mother (Swaroop Sampat). While introducing him to her mother, Kia states Kabir's ambition to be a 'house-husband' and run the family and his selfless support in helping her fly in the corporate world. The couple gets married and begin their unusual journey. While Kabir takes to the household chores (including spying on the maid) like a fish to water, Kia starts inching towards the realisation of her ambitions. Being extremely intrigued by Kabir, Kia's colleagues express their desire to meet him. Amidst that get-together, an initially reluctant Kia later reveals Kabir being a 'house-husband'. What follows after that are offers galore for Kabir who becomes 'the most wanted munda' all over the place, right from the TV shows, cookery shows and even the housewives in the neighborhood who want to slim down through his organic diet charts and workouts. One day, when Kia is abroad for a business meeting in Dubai, Kabir flies down to Mumbai on the invitation of 'an extremely impressed' Jaya Bachchan and a bitter Amitabh Bachchan, Kia's mother gets admitted in the hospital for low blood pressure. Because of his meeting with the Bachchans, Kabir puts his mobile on a silent mode and lands up missing as many as 20 calls from Kia and her mother. What follows after that is a big showdown in the form of Kia's outburst. Does Kabir walk out of Kia's life, does Kia ever realise her mistake towards Kabir and apologise, does the couple ever meet and live a happy family is what forms the rest of the story..
Ki and Ka is a one time watch, an average film that could have been great. Since this is a solo release this week and you don't have much options, we suggest the couples to head to the nearest theatres, watch the film, to have a new take on life, get a le.
One that women do as much work at home and are hence no less. Second that money leads to inequality. So I request all the men reading the review to not just appreciate the women in your life but share your salary with them. Open an account in their names,.
Kareena is terrific, Arjun, endearing. But Balki's writing is inconsistent. A few scenes leave you misty-eyed, but for the most part, the stock situations are banal. Yet, Ki and Ka is worth a ticket because it tells shows how there is nothing wrong with t.
“Har scene ko TV serials ki tarah finish karoonga (Will end every scenes like a TV serial)”, or something to the same effect. Basically with a hook point, but that makes the proceedings too obvious and predictable..
What doesn't work for the film is the constant onslaught of in-film marketing. Though it is done pretty cleverly at some points, too much is always a bad thing. The other thing is that the plot tends to get unnecessary gimmicky at points. Also, one wishes.
Great to see the premise– send a woman out, keep a man in, and reverse gender expectations- on screen : it just needed to have been sharper and deeper..
Ki And Ka might feel like the two longest hours of your life. Balki sets out to demolish stereotypes, but in the process, ends up affirming them even more. Watch it only if you swear by Kareena or Arjun. Or good germs of films spoilt by bad execution..
