Kuch Kuch Locha Hai

Devang Dholakia's Kuch Kuch Locha Hai , touted as a sex comedy, is in fact a large-scale mindless Gujarati drama on celluloid, packaged like a never-ending Balaji Telefilms soap, with skin show and cheap, ineffective thrills galore.

The story revolves around Praveen Patel (Ram Kapoor) aka PP, a middle-aged Gujarati shopkeeper settled in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He lives with his dramatic and stereotypically loud Gujarati wife Kokila Patel (Suchita Trivedi), whom he lovingly calls KoKodile and musician son, Jigar Patel (Navdeep Chabbra).

Like most NRIs, PP is besotted by Bollywood and in fact has a quirky obsession for the Bollywood 'sex bomb' Shanaya (Sunny Leone).

How PP manipulates his way through to fulfill his dream for a date with Shanaya, forms the crux of this long and convoluted tale.

Unfortunately, the premise is staid and it's treatment obnoxious. Most of the scenes are tackle canned. The direction is; careless, on the face close and upfront and theatrically projected.

On the performance front, though over-the-top, Suchita Trivedi as Kokila Patel and Mehul Buch as Chanpa Patel, PP's friend, are the only two, who stand out. There is some element of sincerity in their performances. They are believable characters.

Sunny Leone is there for the humph factor and she delivers uninhibitedly in 'full' measure, without any qualms.

One knows what to expect when it comes to films like these.

Story about a married, salacious 40-something man (Kapoor) who falls for international (adult) movie star (Leone) is silly, but not enough silly. It is evident from the intro frames where the film is really going - hatching a sex comedy between the primary protagonists, using slapstick and comic dialogs. Unfortunately, old formula has been highly tampered with and all that is left for its audiences to absorb are few cleavages, slurs about these cleavages, and short skirts that emphasize the cleft.

People love sex comedies if they are honest, but in here there is visible honesty only about one thing: flesh show. Those expecting things from the film will receive it with pure irreverence from Leone and Sharma, who are strictly for that purpose. Other characters simply fool around with unclear intentions. Moreover, the base of the film itself is flawed - the guy probably wants to get laid with someone other than his wife, and when the time comes, refuses to acknowledge it. I have no sympathy or liking for such a character.

The film is an update only for Ram Kapoor - a lucky sod who used to romance sari-clad middle-aged women in TV and now fantasizes about voluptuous actors.

BOTTOM LINE: Kuch Kuch Locha Hai is an updated and modernized progeny of Bhojpuri sleaze films which used to have posters stuck inside bus stops and on street light poles - posters that had three main people in it, descriptively the boob-flashing heroine, her big-hearted (and probably well-endowed) hero lover, and her knife-wielding villain lover. You know what to expect. 1/10 - avoid.

Can be watched with a typical Indian family? NO

Alcohol: Mild | Profanity/Vulgarity: Medium

Devang Dholakia's Kuch Kuch Locha Hai , touted as a sex comedy, is in fact a large-scale mindless Gujarati drama on celluloid, packaged like a never-ending Balaji Telefilms soap, with skin show and cheap, ineffective thrills galore.

The story revolves around Praveen Patel (Ram Kapoor) aka PP, a middle-aged Gujarati shopkeeper settled in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He lives with his dramatic and stereotypically loud Gujarati wife Kokila Patel (Suchita Trivedi), whom he lovingly calls KoKodile and musician son, Jigar Patel (Navdeep Chabbra).

Like most NRIs, PP is besotted by Bollywood and in fact has a quirky obsession for the Bollywood 'sex bomb' Shanaya (Sunny Leone).

How PP manipulates his way through to fulfill his dream for a date with Shanaya, forms the crux of this long and convoluted tale.

Unfortunately, the premise is staid and it's treatment obnoxious. Most of the scenes are tackle canned. The direction is; careless, on the face close and upfront and theatrically projected.

On the performance front, though over-the-top, Suchita Trivedi as Kokila Patel and Mehul Buch as Chanpa Patel, PP's friend, are the only two, who stand out. There is some element of sincerity in their performances. They are believable characters.

Sunny Leone is there for the best factor and she delivers uninhibitedly in 'full' measure, without any qualms.

When it comes to writing reviews for this website, I've developed a method that I believe works well and gives each project a pretty fair shot. I listen to the CD twice all the way through before writing a single word. Then I write down the track listing and as I play through for a third time I begin to make notes. This has become a self-imposed rule that I've stuck to on all but a handful of the nearly 300 reviews I've thrown up here. Sometimes I jot down quotes and sometimes just the premise for bits that grabbed my attention. I write down what stood out as really good and I write down what stood out as really bad. If a track goes by that isn't particularly noteworthy, I simply delete that line and move on to the next. By the end of the final playback, I have a skeleton of a review from which to work.For this movie sunny has acted well and the presentation of comedy was simply better you cannot get anymore better than sunny and ram cannot take eyes of her.

On the super comedy movie did not expect much but was surprised the way movie was brought...... specially the lead sunny was watchable cannot just take eyes of her...... the beauty queen has made us proud all the people has started liking her and seeing her in a different way no more the adult film star ......... it has taken her long time to be so successful....... the last year horror movie was also a super class of talent so we should be proud that the adult star turned in a professional actress ........ love to see her every time her new movies and her new looks cannot just take eyes out of her...... for me i would give 9 out of 10 for this movie yes cannot compare with big comedy movie but sunny has shown that she can work with big actors and make big films as well.... loved the movie