Aug 14, 2006 05:18 PM
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Until now I detested the lavishness and melodrama that Karan Johar dished out in his previous movies like KKHH & K3G and now I hated his immature and illogical take on the extra marital relationships. If KJ wanted to move away from mush and push the envelope a bit further by exploring the extra marital relationships then he should have concentrated on plausible causes & reasoning to validate extra marital relationships and infidelity. He has failed to put any plausibility either in the arguments of the characters involved in the illegitimate relationships or in their sufferings nor there is any logic given initiation of such relationships. KJ doesn’t have any artistic & philosophical inclinations nor the maturity to explore such sensitive issues. KANK is a brainless movie made by KJ in the name of boldness and progressiveness.
The movie stands crooked under a weak platform filled with flawed script, poor characterizations, poor logic, pathetic justifications and ordinary performances.
If only the characters had taken efforts and pains to salvage their relationships instead of wasting their time in finding love outside their marriage then the characters would have lived happily. But not for Karan Johar. He wants his characters to indulge in extramarital relationship under flimsy and childish excuses. SRK is incessantly pissed off and makes no effort to save his marriage. One fails to understand as to why a happily married Rani Mukherjee has an affair with SRK considering that her husband has been shown as loving, caring and understanding. What more should a wife want from her husband. Why should career women (Preity Zinta) be shown only as heartless and ruthless and their husbands (SRK) as jealous MCPs. Due to poor characterizations, the audience does not feel for any characters except Abhishek Bachchan.
The opening sequence itself, where Rani speaks to a stranger (SRK) about her reservations about her marriage to a wrong person and then heeds SRKs advise of getting married to Abhishek, makes it clear that the movie will move into a deep mess. How can a modern girl staying in USA behave in this strange manner and not take a stand against the marriage considering that she has no hesitation in entering an extra-marital affair with SRK.
The reasons for the couples’ incompatibility seem very frivolous and are shown in a very forced manner. It is not made clear why Rani is not happy with Abhishek and what she wants from him. He loves her, is ready to discuss with her, wants her to enjoy with him, tries to satisfy her sexually and bears every tantrum of hers. Why would anyone be dissatisfied with such a good husband. Ironically, after all this it is Rani who goes on looking for love outside her marriage when it should have been Abhishek doing that. And what does SRK do that makes Rani fall in love with her. Nothing. On the other hand SRK is frustrated because his wife keeps the kitchen fire burning and hence thinks she is not right for her. Thus, according to KJ a wife should get out of the marriage on frivolous grounds and husbands should ask their wives to become housewives.
The characters of SRK and Rani are made to crib all the time for no apparent reason and are never shown making any attempts to salvage their marriages. And when matters go out of hand, the characters of Abhishek and Preity are made to insult and reprimand their spouses thus trying to make the audience sympathize with SRK and Rani and make Abhishek and Preity look stubborn and rude. The audience does not buy this logic and fails to sympathise with the characters of SRK and Rani. Karan Johar wants to send out a message that people who have time and money in hand are free to look out for love outside marriage on flimsy grounds.
What’s that stupid logic that only two persons who are going through rough times will understand each others woes. Rani and SRK decide to have friendship with each other so that they can meet and talk about how they can salvage their respective marriages. But why don’t they instead talk to their respective spouses and work out the matter amongst themselves. But then KJ wants SRK and Rani to meet on the pretext of solving their problems so that they can spend time together so that they can fall in love This looked very forced one. Moreover, after all that meetings and coffee sessions they don’t even implement whatever they have planned and discussed nor do they take efforts to change their behaviour towards their spouses. It’s only Abhishek and Preity who take any effort to compromise.
There are no scenes that shows love blossoming between SRK and Rani gradually. It’s all of a sudden and therefore the pre-interval scene where SRK professes his love for Rani fails to move and convince the audience.
If SRK and Rani had planned to terminate their illicit relationship then where was the need to confess to their spouses. KJ has clearly chickened out in the end. Its only after Abhishek and Preity’s go ahead does Rani goes ahead and meet SRK. Shouldn’t SRK and Rani have got married to each other after their divorces if they had loved each other so much? Why should the guilt factor come in. And there is also a forced attempt to show Abhi and Preity as goody goody ones who forgives and permits Rani to marry SRK. The audience can see through this forced union. And SRK and Rani are also shown feeling guilty and even apologise for their act. After all this how can it be said that KJ has made a bold movie.
SRK’s incessant sermons on love does not make sense at all considering that he is shown cribbing all the time in the movie. The so-called funny scenes like SRK and Rani misunderstanding each other as Black beast and the scene where they think Abhi and Preity are having an affair do not even elicit a smile leave alone the laughs.
Amitabh brings hookers to his house in front of his son and daughter in law, flirts with every woman in vicinity, flirts with SRKs mom, passes comments on Kiron Kher’s anatomy, SRK passes comments on Rani’s butts and breasts, visits sex shops, etc. With so much vulgarity in the movie how come the censors gave U certificate for the movie, not to forget that the movie deals with extra marital relationship.
The scenes where Amitabh gives an emotional speech at the end of the Rock n roll song and his conversation with Rani in the hospital were good but in isolation and not contextually. How can the audience take Amitabh’s sermons on love seriously when he is shown sleeping with hookers everyday and flirting with women at the drop of the hat. Hey KJ, is it because AB did not value his wife’s love and could not keep her happy that he started sleeping around with hookers. Another good scene is where SRK jokingly confesses his love for Rani during a family dinner. The scene where SRK is standing at the signal with a bouquet and both Rani & Preity walking towards him is really tension filled.
