Kismet Love Paisa Dilli Movie Reviews

If you ever spend a Sunday morning at a sea face café in Bandra or a Friday evening at a bar in Lokhandwala, chances are you’ll effortlessly eavesdrop on a conversation that starts with Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and ends with Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows. There are dozens of movie writers out there who want to make a movie like Guy Ritchie’s. Nothing bad in that. After all art imitates art. But sadly, not everyone knows what they’re talking about

This one's no 'stand-up' comedy. Neither will any part of you feel like giving it a standing ovation. This is as much of a dhoka, as the slang version of KLPD actually suggests. It is a string of episodes, part slap-stick, part-ridiculous, part comedy (the smallest part, of course) that all happens in one long night. It starts right here. At a fashion show called En'gay'ged 377 (corny!) hosted by legendary 'man-eater', Rohit Pichwadia

In one of the more bizarre moments of the film, you have a soft-spoken, pushover, bike obsessed delivery boy - played by Anshuman Jha - transform into a jumping, flying, ear biting super mortal. If that line made no sense, I wouldn't blame you. In spirit, it's the kind of eccentricity that made Sanjay Khanduri's previous film Ek Chalis Ki Last Local so watchable. It had a natural quirkiness to it, and was a refreshingly original voice at the time

Guy and girl are strangers, they live through a night of misadventures and fall in love by the morning. How many times have you watched that story on screen before? Forget starting a count - even Sanjay Khanduri gave you more or less the same script the last time he made a film. Recall Khanduri's debut directorial feature, Ek Chaalis Ki Last Local. Pretty much the same bag of gags. Kismet Love Paisa Dilli, hackneys the Last Local idea in a new city

A hapless fellow finds his life turned upside down, and all kinds of degenerates hot on his trail, when he misses the last train home one night. Writer-director Sanjay Khanduri rejigs the premise of his quirky 2007 film, 'Ek Chalis Ki Last Local', but with far lesser success in the appropriately titled KLPD... although that's meant to stand for 'Kismet Love Paisa Dilli'. Vivek Oberoi plays the horny opportunist convincingly, but the film doesn't exploit that beyond a point

When you hear a title like KLPD - KISMET LOVE PAISA DILLI, expect fun, humor and naughtiness rolled into one. Come to think of it, besides the content of a film, the titles as well as songs are getting interesting [read bizarre] by the day. So a title like KLPD - KISMET LOVE PAISA DILLI doesn't raise eyebrows anymore. Like his directorial debut EK CHALIS KI LAST LOCAL, Sanjay Khanduri's KLPD - KISMET LOVE PAISA DILLI is set in one night

Almost half a decade back, writer-director Sanjay Khanduri made his debut with Ek Chalis Ki Last Local which might not have been a box-office blockbuster but went on to become a cult film for its contemporary crime-comedy concept and offbeat storytelling. One strongly expects he would raise the bar in its thematic sequel Kismat Love Paisa Dilli but is sorely disappointed with the downgraded derivative. The basic design remains the same with a boy and girl

What do you do after you’ve made a striking first film, which tracks a guy through a night in Mumbai as he falls in and out of hilarious adventures? Why, you do the exact same thing. Just switch Mumbai with Delhi, and the'local' with the 'metro', and hope that it will come out the same. Sanjay Khanduri’s ‘Kismet Love Paisa Dilli’ acronyms to that which cannot be expanded or explained in civil society. But it did get in a bunch of young fellows into the theatre

What do you do after you’ve made a striking first film, which tracks a guy through a night in Mumbai as he falls in and out of hilarious adventures? Why, you do the exact same thing. Just switch Mumbai with Delhi, and the'local' with the 'metro', and hope that it will come out the same. Sanjay Khanduri’s ‘Kismet Love Paisa Dilli’ acronyms to that which cannot be expanded or explained in civil society. But it did get in a bunch of young fellows into the theatre

Before KLPD, director Sanjay Khanduri made Ek Chalis Ki Last Local in 2007 and since he got it right back then, it seems he decided to use the same plot for his second film, only changing the backdrop and actors. So Mumbai [ Images ] becomes Delhi and the local train is replaced by the Delhi metro. But unlike his first film, KLPD is teeming with lame stereotypes. Homosexuals, especially, have been portrayed in an exaggerated manner

Meanwhile Mr Hunter’s buddy gives him tips about how to make the “bistar garam.” He asks Mr Hunter, “Chatri hain?” The reply is that he will make do with polythene! Talk of safe sex! Writer-director Khanduri (who earlier made Ek Chaalis Ki Last Local) may have felt that a script laced with toilet humour and double entendre would be mighty amusing. But in his endeavour to overdo the potty talk, the entire plot stinks only if someone had remembered

KLPD is one of those films, that's really a KLPD, if you know what I mean! There's Vivek Oberoi, who once showed a lot of promise. And there's Mallika Sherawat, who always promises, but never delivers. She does, however, deliver 'dwelt-on', 'heavily weighed', 'carefully crafted' quotes that are designed more to grab attention to her interview than anything else. If only she put in as much energy in her performance, maybe we would have seen an actor

Kismet, Love, Paisa, Dilli, mayhem, sheer baloney... one could go on. But what about some sense and substance? Kismat Love Paisa Dilli never promised any of that. So there. The makers of KLPD might as well, as a statutory warning, have added another letter to the title to denote ASSAULT. Yes, this wannabe comic thriller is an all-out assault on the senses. If nothing else, it at least lives up to its name. KLPD, if you know what it means, is just that

There’s not even a pun on the abbreviation of the film’s name – KLPD – that could add any humour to it or salvage it a little bit. It’s just an unending grind thankfully comes to a much need end but only after a painful 150 minutes. Lokesh (Vivek Oberoi) sets his hunter (“shikari”) eyes on Lovina (Mallika Sherawat) at a party and stalks her to the metro station. Instead of getting his prey, he gets involved in the death of a mysterious, white-sari clad

It’s been a week of comebacks, but Viveik Oberoi and Mallika Sherawat have not been missed and ‘Kismet Love Paisa Dilli’ drives home the feeling and how. Oberoi should now be seriously looking to find an alternate profession and we’ll feel a lot more secure about ever watching a movie again, if Mallika Sherawat immediately leaves the country and continues ‘hissing’ in Hollywood and pouting in music videos. Nothing, not a pep talk before