Karthik Calling Karthik Movie Reviews

Rock On, Luck By Chance and now Karthik Calling Karthik...seriously guys, Farhan Akhtar is turning out to be a revelation as an actor. As Karthik, the cube farm animal (read office nobody) who lives a drab life in a drab house doing drab work, he is absolutely stunning. His anguish at being unnoticed, exploited and squashed by all and sundry -- both in his personal and professional life -- hits you like a sledgehammer. As does his chutzpah, when he metamorphoses into the other

In times when you can’t grab the audiences’ attention even by directly speaking to them, here’s a protagonist who speaks to himself and yet connects with the audience amazingly. The title is giveaway to the gist of the story. Karthik Narayan (Farhan Akhtar), a socially shy guy, has been this geeky loser at workplace with no friends and a frightful-fat boss (Ram Kapoor). He secretly desires to date the sexy hot girl in office, Shonali

Have you ever received a call from yourself? Is it possible in the first place? There are several theories doing the rounds about the two Karthiks in this movie. So what is it? Is Karthik hallucinating? Does he have a double role? Or a split personality? For most parts of the film, you actually buy the explanation that Karthik does receive calls from, well, Karthik. Let's accept the fact that a concept like this instinctively generates curiosity

The idea of a mystical assistance to succeed through life's inevitable disappointments is quite a fascinating one. Genie in the lamp, Fairy Godmothers or any wish-granting medium is an upshot of this peculiar human fantasy. Karthik Calling Karthik, too, stems from this deep-rooted desire. Only our eponymous hero (Farhan Akhtar) isn't Aladdin, Cinderella or Bruce Nolan (of Almighty fame). A stereotypical weak geek at the receiving end of his scowling landlord

At one point in Karthik Calling Karthik, Karthik’s boss tells him: You are one strange fellow. That is the understatement of the year. Karthik, played by Farhan Akhtar, is more than strange. We are told that he is a topper from IIM but when we first meet Karthik, he is a singularly oppressed worker drone in a construction company. His boss and colleagues treat him like dirt. He is in love with a colleague, Shonali played by Deepika Padukone.

Karthik Calling Karthik' is actually two films. One, an office romance between a colourless drone and a beautiful colleague who notices him only when the boss lashes out at him in public. And the other about a guy who hears voices in his head and gets strange phonecalls from someone who claims to be him. Karthik calling Karthik, geddit? It could have been one film if first time director Vijay Lalwani had kept the writing and the tone consistent

Star cast: Farhan Akhtar, Deepika Padukone. Plot: Farhan Akhtar woos Deepika but when they decide to get married, ...