There are some movies for which you actually feel bad if the final outcome is not as interesting as you would have expected after the first half. Aap KI Khatir is one of them.
Though the movie begins well, a series of absurd incidents over the course of time make one loose interest in the proceedings and hence dampen the effect of some fine work done in the initial reels.
Priyanka Chopra is an unmarried girl who is invited back to her parents London home to attend her younger sister’s (Amisha Patel) wedding. Her ex-fiancé[Dino Morea], had dumped her without warning two years ago and he is supposed to be present there in the wedding as well..
Anxious about confronting him, she hires male escort [Akshay Khanna]to pose as her boyfriend. She intends to make her ex jealous, but her plan backfires when Akshay convinces everyone, including her, that they’re madly in love.
Spolier ahead:
The ending:Amisha confesses to her fiance Sunil just before the wedding that she was in love with with Dino. Sunil chases Dino out of the wedding. Priyanka ends up with Akshay .Torture ends!
While the first half is fine, it is again not of the kind that could make a movie belong to the must-see category. Still at the least it makes you look forward to things.
But second half is one big mess. There are some incidents that make the proceedings more absurd than anything else. For example why Priyanka falls in love with Akshay Khanna? Just because Dino loves her sister Amisha?Why did Amisha hide the truth from Priyanka?Also the moblie comic track involving Anupam Kher is so corny that one can almost hear the people in the auditorium laughing at such scenes rather than laughing with them. Even the entire sequence where Akshay debates over Sunil in the name of marriage is ridiculous.
Many more situations like these make the viewer loose interest in the movie and by the time the movie reaches its final and predictable end, its time to pack bags.
Priyanka just doesn’t get to do anything and her love story with Akshay appears to be a mismatch from scene one. They have as much chemistry as oil and vinegar!
If Dharmesh Darshan thought that Akshay alone would be able to lift the movie then that unfortunately doesn’t happen.
Dino has just not improved over the years and still carries the same wooden expression and terrible dialogue delivery style. Liiltey Dubey and Anupam Kher irritate.Amisha seems to have lost interest in the film midway and that excessive make-up doesn’t make her boredom look any better.Sunil hams.
Overall Aap KI Khatir is a lukewarm movie with not enough merits to make it a box office winner. It is a big shame on the viewer’s intelligence. Very disappointing. . I know there are much better scripts out there waiting to be made. How did this one get chosen??