Hang your boots Mr. Ghai! . Review on Kisna

Hey friends! Any one to tell me what happened to Kisna and his two women at the end of the movie! Phew! The movie was so bad that I just could not sit through till the finale.

What was Subhash Ghai thinking when he made Kisna? Urgh! I think the man has lost it completely. Not that I was ever a big fan of his but his Karma, Karz, Saudagar, Ram Lakhan and Khalnayak at least had some drama in them. Flicks like Pardes and Taal had melody. This one has nothing. Just Vivek Oberoi trying some heroism to save Katherine (Antonina Bernath) from some desperate Indophiles (Junoon anyone?).

Kisna lives somewhere in the hills in Northern India (present Uttaranchal). As a kid in the mid-30s he was very friendly with Katherine but her magistrate father packs her off to England. Cut to May 1947. She has developed into a full-bosomed lass who still feels very strongly about Kisna who is now betrothed to Laxmi (Isha Shravani) who loves to do rope dancing.

Things are fine when one day the locals kill Katherine?s magistrate father and start baying for Katherine and her mother?s blood. Kisna comes to their rescue and embarks on a mission to see them safely till Delhi. The race begins. On horseback, on motorcycle, on a tonga, in a car.

A jealous Laxmi also sets after them and God-knows-how sees them embracing in a church when the locals headed by Kisna?s devious mama (the late Amrish Puri) and his elder brother (Yashpal Sharma) have no clue about their whereabouts despite being outside the church.

Kisna also has to save Katherine from a rajasaheb (a very stiff Rajat Kapoor) and if that means subjecting us to a tortuous mujra performed by Suhmita Sen then so be it.

Subhash Ghai sir: Please stop making pseudo-bhartiya films. In every film of yours, you need not refer to Ramayana and Mahabharata. These are our epics. Please do not degrade them like this. Your Kisna is sheer trash and in no way does it extol the virtues of Lord Krishna ? the real warrior poet.

Vivek Oberoi is miscast as Kisna. Antonina is good and perky while Isha ?.. oh God - let?s not even begin to talk about her. What was Sushmita Sen doing here? Om Puri as her pimp was tolerable. The music by Ismail Durbar and AR Rahman is a BIG BIG LET DOWN.

The dialogues are sprinkled liberally with rubbish like ?Ab tu Krishna ban gaya hai?. Only Ashok Mehta?s brilliant cinematography offers some relief. I have to admit that the film is mounted spectacularly. But so what? There is no substance to it. Subhash Ghai has made a mountain out of a molehill.

Hang your boots Mr. Ghai!