Tell Me O Kkhuda Movie Reviews

Take away all the awkwardness of the comic relief by Johnny Lever and a plot that moves through three segments without transitional smoothness... and you have a film that's tender, sweet and gentle. Tell Me O Kkhuda is a bit of a smile-invoking ode to parenthood. Tanya (Esha Deol, in an author-backed, tailor-made, custom-built role), happily ensconced in her life of parents (benign Farouq Shaikh-Deepti Naval), best friend (Chandan Roy Sanyal)

Tell Me O Kkhuda' directed by Hema Malini feels so outdated, you’re hardly surprised it’s a rehash of an earlier film she’d directed, 'Dil Aashna Hai', all the way back in 1992. The premise of both films is exactly the same - an adopted girl sets off on a quest to find her birth parents. The director’s own daughter Esha Deol plays the protagonist of this new film, whose determined but frankly harebrained mission takes her to the doorsteps of three different men

Remember the earlier Hema Malini film (that starred Shah Rukh Khan and Divya Bharti) called Dil Aashna Hai? It’s a story about this girl who is on a mission to find out who her real parents are and goes through various experiences which forms the storyline of the film. In this film too, the basic storyline is the same. Esha Deol learns that a tragedy had separated her from her real parents and so she embarks on a journey to find her them. The same old plot

A supposedly successful writer Tania Kapoor (Esha Deol) has accidentally discovered her parents are not her own. A washed-out hospital tag (much like Esha herself) and few paper clippings reveal that she was adopted as an orphan from Bombay Hospital. This may remotely sound like it holds promise. But don’t get too excited. So our dear relaunched heroine, along with her seemingly idle friends Jay (Arjan Bajwa) and Cookie (Chandan), jet sets to Rajasthan

Life seems to have come full circle for Hema Malini. In an attempt to reintroduce daughter Esha Deol with Tell Me O Kkhuda, the yesteryear dreamgirl does a spinoff on Dil Aashna Hai (1992), a film with which she miserably attempted to launch herself as a feature filmmaker. While the erstwhile film derived its roots from the novel Lace (also made into an US tele-series), her latest endeavour comes closer to Amanda Seyfried's Mamma Mia (2008)

This one is strictly for old-timers who could get a high seeing Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna and Rishi Kapoor in the same frame even if it is for just a few minutes. The rest would be happier watching Shah Rukh’s antics in 3-D.

Hema Malini chooses to direct similar emotionally-charged scenes on loop, this time in Turkey. The cinematography here is breathtaking but unfortunately not enough to keep you hooked.

On the whole, TELL ME O KKHUDA has an erratic script, which works in bits and spurts. That, honestly, isn’t enough!

Here’s the story: The heroine’s an artiste of sorts. Much later in her youth, she figures that she’s in fact an adopted child. Confused by this strange turn of events, she leaves home, generally curious to finally meet her biological parent. Her boyfriend remains by her side. This was Hema Malini’s directorial debut in 1992, with Shah Rukh Khan playing that boyfriend, and Divya Bharti, the leading lady. Two decades hence, Hema Malini’s the director again

In the middle of all the Ra.One madness, it’s pretty embarrassing to queue up for a Tell Me Kkhuda ticket. Especially if one has to buy a couple of extra tickets to ensure that the head count adds up to five — the minimum requisite for a show to run at a multiplex. And at the end of 140 minutes, there are enough face-palm moments in Tell Me Kkhuda to ensure that the initial embarrassment is multiplied many times over.

TELL ME O KKHUDA... Will this be what everyone will be mouthing after the show? TELL ME O KKHUDA... will this be what Esha Deol, making an appearance after a brief hiatus, be mumbling under her breath, holding fast to her hair? TELL ME O KKHUDA... how could Hema Malini come up with something like this? It's a jerky ride, with a convenient story that allows the protagonist to enter unknown people's houses and stay on as a guest

Extreme love for the progeny produces corruption in several societies. It produces some terribly inspired entertainment in India. Few grudge the latter as much, I suppose. They don’t have to sit through it, if they don’t wish to. I didn’t have a choice.

By the end of it, you neither remember the music [Pritam], the camerawork, the editing or for that matter, the reason why you wanted to watch the film in the first place.

Tell Me O Kkhuda review by Komal Nahta: What’s Good: Performance of Esha Deol; a couple of emotional scenes. Wha...