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| KHATTA MEETHA |
Cast:Akshay Kumar, Trisha, Rajpal Yadav, Urvashi Sharma, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Makrand Deshpande, Manoj Joshi, Johnny Lever
Director:Priyadarshan
Rating:**
my ratings - 4/5 (nice comedy family film)
Priyadarshan remaking his Malayalam films into Hindi is an old story. So is his partnership with Akshay Kumar, whose penchant for playing an average joe is also old hat. So what’s new with `Khatta Meetha’, a remake of Mohanlal-Shobhana starrer ‘ Vellanakalude Nadu’? Kumar’s character Sachin Tichkule is a regular fellow all right, but not as bumbling and naïve as he’s been before. It’s not like he’s been cast in a mint-fresh die, but there’s just about enough to keep you going for its nearly three hours of running time. Just about.
Tichkule ( Kumar) is the youngest of a family of crooked contractors, with the exception of his upright Gandhiwadi father ( Kharbanda). His brothers and brother-in-law are all corrupt and hand-in-glove with greedy politicians. Leaky bridges collapse, innocents die, and the gang keeps going merrily. Tichkule is not squeaky clean himself, and is not above bribing and threatening officials to get his cheques out, and contracts in.
