REVIEW

Money is one of the reasons that causes gender inequality. Since women don’t go out to earn, their efforts to make a home, run a family and raise kids are often forgotten and taken for granted. We forget they do a job as well, round the clock, round the year, unpaid and sometimes unappreciated. Ki and Ka addresses the same thought in the climax where a mother minces no words and points out the sad power game as is.

STORY

Delhi-based Kabir Bansal (Arjun Kapoor) is in line to inherit his father’s multi-crore business conglomerate. Kabir wants to be like his mother because he believes being a housewife is nothing short of being an artist. One day, he meets a rising corporate star, Kia (Kareena Kapoor Khan), and tries desperately to woo her. However, it’s a daunting task for one simple reason: Kia is unusually ambitious and doesn’t want the marriage to hinder her flight before reaching to the top.

Kabir’s father, Mr Bansal (Rajit Kapur), is not happy with his son’s ‘outlook’, and thus their relationship is very much strained. The bone of contention between the fighting Bansals is the treatment meted out to Kabir’s late mother by Mr Bansal. On the other hand, Kia’s mother (Swaroop Sampat) runs 4-5 NGOs and has also been a single parent. Now, when everyone has a reason to hate marriage, Kia (Ki) and Kabir (Ka) decide to tie the knot, but is this a good idea? Will they be able to sail smoothly through thick and thin? You will have to watch in the silver screen.

PERFORMANCE

Kareena is the pick of the cast. She is particularly good in her emotionally over-wrought scenes. It is such a joy to see her playing a substantial role after a string of marginal parts in male-centric films. Arjun’s brooding intensity is always attractive, but he has delivered better performances in the past. Swaroop Sampat, who plays Kia’s mother in Ki & Ka, is cute and likeable but she just cannot act.

Balki's writing is inconsistent. A few scenes leave you misty-eyed, but for the most part, the stock situations are banal. Yet, Ki and Ka is worth a ticket because it tells shows how there is nothing wrong with the man wearing the apron and the women wearing her ambition. A special appearance by Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, as themselves, even if gimmicky in nature, works as an amusing slice of celebrity life providing a catalyst during a stalemate in Ki & Ka’s.

PLUS

Concept

Lead Cast

MINUS

Screenplay

Few comedy scenes

Verdict : Role-Reversal!

Stars : 1.5/5