Release date:
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January 22, 2016
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Director:
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Umesh Ghadge
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Cast:
Language:
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Tusshar Kapoor,
Aftab Shivdasani, Krishna Abhishek, Claudia Ciesla, Gizele Thakral, Mandana
Karimi, Shakti Kapoor, Meghna Naidu, Darshan Jariwala, Sushmita Mukherjee,
Guest appearances: Riteish Deshmukh and Gauhar Khan
Hindi
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Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 should inspire the
Censor Board to introduce a new rating to the existing lot: J for Juvenile.
Seriously, A for Adults Only is an insult to all those over-18s in this country
with an iota of maturity and common sense.
Tusshar Kapoor and
Aftab Shivdasani play buddies Kanhaiyya and Rocky in this, the third in the Kyaa Kool series. Kanhaiyya, son of
industrialist P.K. Lele (Shakti Kapoor), is thrown out by his Dad for messing
up at work. His quirk, since everyone must perforce have an identifying quirk
in such films, is that his eyeballs get locked whenever he sees the colour red,
giving him the appearance of a squint. Rocky is… well no one really bothers to
tell us anything about him beyond the fact that he is Kanhaiyya’s friend.
The two take off
for Bangkok where Rocky says a certain Mickey (Krishna Abhishek) has offered
them a “hand job” in his business. Slip-up alert! He meant to say “a job which requires us to lend him a
hand in his business”. So clever, na?
When the boys land
in Thailand, they realise their friend is a producer of, ahem, adult films
although he insists he is not doing “porn
ka kaam” but “punya ka kaam” (applause
again, please!) since his earnings are pumped into considerable philanthropic
work. The residents of Mickey’s palatial home-cum-studio include a transgender
actor, another who is gay and perennially semi-nude, a method actress who gets
so engrossed in her roles that even her normal off-screen conversations are
conducted in gasps and moans (Gizele Thakral) and another (Claudia Ciesla) who
keeps going off into a trance to feel up her own body.
The setting and the
latter two characters in particular have the potential for a rip-roaring
laughathon. Besides, Krishna has good comic timing and KKHH3 reveals a funny bone in the Polish-German model-actress
Claudia, whose calling cards in India right now are the ‘item’ number Balma in 2012’s Akshay Kumar-starrer Khiladi 786 and her appearance on Season 3 of the reality show Bigg Boss. Sadly, the writer-director team of KKHH3 loses the plot even before they’ve laid it out, recycling
clichés and taking it for granted that nonsense cannot be intelligent, that
rhyming words are somehow funny and that repetition is in itself a joke.
So a female porn
star is known as Mary/Meri Lee, the surname Lele becomes a predictable source
of merriment, a man mistakes his own foot in bed for an erection (How? Could he
not feel his own body?) while another refers to a buxom woman as “boobsurat”. Yawn. Think of something
new, people. Then there are meaningless inside jokes playing on the words “masti”
and “grand masti” (you know, the
titles of those films featuring Aftab and guest star Riteish Deshmukh). Yawn. And
of course there are self-referential wisecracks about “ekta” (unity). Yawn, yawn. How often will we hear that in a film
produced by Ekta Kapoor?
No doubt Ekta and
her colleagues will argue, as they always do, especially if a film goes on to
earn big money at the box office, that critics are too serious and incapable of
enjoying comedy. Nonsense! Heard of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Sai Paranjpye, Golmaal, Chupke Chupke, Chashme
Buddoor, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, stand-up comedy, Pushpaka Vimana, Kamal Haasan, Govinda,
David Dhawan at his best, Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Mrs Doubtfire, Robin Williams, Billy
Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, Riteish when he is not giving himself short shrift, Seinfeld, Friends, Two Broke Girls,
The Big Bang Theory, Mohanlal, Jagadeesh, Jay Leno, John
Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, Aisi Taisi
Democracy, Poochakkoru Mookkuthi, Priyadarshan, Paresh Rawal…you really
want a longer list? May I confess too that I thoroughly enjoy Anees Bazmee and
Rohit Shetty when they are not taking us for granted?
No doubt too we
will be told, as we always are, that this is what the public wants. Well, this
member of the public would humbly submit that it is possible to be
light-hearted, ludicrous and downright stupid to let your hair down, without
being infantile.
Even within this
series, the first Kyaa Kool Hain Hum (2005)
was fun because there was a freshness to it, an impertinence that cocked a
snook at ultra-conservatives, even if it pandered to those very conservatives
with its many stereotypes,. The follow-up film, Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum, was boring, offensive and icky. KKHH3 is not even trying. Maybe it’s our
fault that, as an audience, we made its predecessors hits. As with politicians
and the media, so it is with cinema – I guess we get the films we deserve. What
next? Kya Super Stupid Hain Hum?
Rating
(out of five): ½ star
CBFC Rating (India):
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A
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Running time:
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125 minutes
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