Khoobsoorat beauty

Khoobsurat
Starring: Sonam Kapoor, Fawad Afzal Khan, Kirron Kher, Ratna Pathak, Aditi Rao Hydari
Rated: 8/10
Sonam Kapoor is known to have just too many critics. But as the breezy motor mouth Dr Mili Chakravarty in Khoobsurat, she turns in many converts. Other than her and Pakistan’s Fawad Khan as the dishy prince with awesome intensity, Khoobsurat is a perfectly Disney film — a fairytale love you fervently wish had been spun around you.
It has everything you would have wanted in a sizzling romance — good humour, good chemistry, good humour and good amount of modernity.
But, to compare Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Khubsooratwith this one in which director Shashank Ghosh spins a royal versus commoner tale, would be incorrect as both make an impact in varying ways. While Rekha was engaged in a delectable fight of sare niyam tod do with an uptight matriarch in Dina Pathak, here Sonam has not that daunting a task at hand and is more about her “Viku ke liye gande gande khayal” rather than her clash with his royal mother played by Ratna Pathak Shah.
A tough nut to crack as a physiotherapist who can make Dhoni & Sehwag run to victory despite sore back and torn muscles, a Punjabi spice girl who calls her mother by her name, a today’s youngster who spews style, class and confidence, a girl in unabashedly in love and a thorough professional when at work, Sonam is a beauty inKhoobsurat.
Romantics seldom get their money’s worth through Bollywood, but this absolutely breezy story gives you goose pimples of love all through and will be remembered as one film which held on till the last on what many cynics call second hand emotion.
Fawad as the intense, sparsely speaking prince exudes royalty and extends his territory as a brooding man with a heart of gold. For him, zindagi gulzaar hai on this side of the border too. Besides holding his own against the more central character of Sonam, Fawad also declares he is here for a long career.
Khoobsurat’s other high point is kudi Punjaban Kirron Kher who yet again gives a new sauce to her shade of bindaas Punjabiyat. Though, there in a small role, she captures more imagination than her role should have allowed in normal circumstances. She is the best ever Punjaban we have in Bollywood for now.
Amir Raza Hussain as the wheel-chaired king who has to be treated by Sonam has a role as constricted as the disability he acquires after losing his son in a sports car accident. Ratna Pathak Shah is adequately stiff and oh-so-royal in her coiffured hair and Oxonian attitude.
On the whole, Khoobsurat, you can say, is Bollywood’s best cheer for love.

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 21 September 2014
 

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