Movie: Khoobsurat
plot: Khoobsurat is a remake of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1980 film by the same name, starring Rekha in the lead role. Mili (Sonam Kapoor) is a physiotherapist in Delhi. The free spirited doctor is sent to Rajasthan to treat the paraplegic Shekhar Rathore, Raja of Sambalgarh, who is now on a wheelchair
Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Fawad Khan, Kirron Kher, Ratna Pathak Shah, Amir Raza Hussain
Director: Shashanka Ghosh
Sonam Kapoor’s Khoobsurat featuring Fawad Khan opposite her, hits theatres on Friday.
Sonam Kapoor comes onscreen talking about her childhood dream of being a Disney princess and how Khoobsurat made it possible. Only then does the movie begin. That’s actually a hidden warning — this is another Aisha, produced by dad Anil Kapoor and sister Rhea Kapoor, this one’s another attempt to make Sonam look like the princess she feels she is.
Milli Chakroborty (Sonam Kapoor) is a physiotherapist who travels with Kolkata Knight Riders for IPL matches and after the season ends, agrees to go to the royal family of Rathores to treat the king played by Aamir Raza Husain. She meets Prince Vikram Singh Rathore (Fawad) there and falls for him.
The pair sizzles but the best giggles go to Kirron Kher, playing Mili’s mummy Manju, with some of this laugh riot’s funniest lines, including berating the ‘royal kanjar khana!’. Kirron runs away with her vibrant role, finely balanced against Ratna Pathak’s grim self-control and Aamir Raza Husain’s wine-soaked self-pity – that finally shows some spark.
But there’s more khoobsurti here. Romance between the lead pair is like perfume sprayed onto air while the evolution of Mili, from wild-child to dignified woman, and Vikram, from stick-in-royal-sand to a confused, vulnerable man, show.
Liked it. Recommend it. (This will help you sound intellectual and give you stuff to add at water cooler )
