Kunwara

Director David Dhawan and actor Govinda made many comedy films at the turn of the millennium in Hindi cinema; some successful and few not so much.

This is another of those cheesy little flicks and maybe a bit underwhelming compared to the other films they made. The comic elements sometimes seem forced in many situations, the acting by many of the cast members including the lead actress is downright pathetic. Add to it randomly inserted song and dance sequences that are inherently pointless and feel dated.

Still, the film does have it's moments , especially in the second half and if one keeps their expectation tempered, it's not a bad watch.

I still remember watching this movie on the silver screen as a kid. It was just weeks or months before that I had watched Hera Pheri as well. Hera Pheri is the first movie, which I remember enjoying so much in the theater. The movie made me keep laughing for hours. I became a fan of comedy genre. Watching this movie as a kid or watching a back to back comedy movie too wasn't disappointing at all. I got to laugh for hours that's all mattered as a kid.

I decided to revisit and watched this again. Johnny Lever managing to act dead for more than a day and yet Urmila wasn't suspicious even for a while felt as silly as ever. But of course I understood that it was meant to be silly. Govinda and Johnny Lever too executed it so well. Probably no other actors would've managed to pull off something like that with such perfection. There was a character in the movie played by Aarif Sheikh, who was shown as an extreme moron, trying to impress Urmila and always complaining about Govinda. Moreover, managing to mess up things almost each time. That's where I felt the supposedly comedy stuff was overdone. The rip off of Shankar Mahadevan's breathless was executed perfectly though. Especially towards the end, I couldn't get enough of Govinda and Kader Khan's 'chukki pisaenge'.

While I did enjoy feeling so nostalgic, I found some unforgivable flaws. It is unbelievable that while Govinda was pretending to be a husband of Nagma. He never bothered to ask her how her supposedly lover looks like. The makers kept such simplistic thing as secret for the climax purpose. Moreover, when Govinda was dating Urmila in New Zealand, he again never bothered to ask her about her family background, just to bring some unnecessary complexities in their relationship during the interval. Since this concerns to the primary storyline, such gaps are not easily forgivable.

As a kid, I wasn't aware of foreign locations and blindly believed that as they were in New Zealand, the songs were also shot there. However, now we look at those music videos, the Swiss flags, the city names or the bank names are clearly visible in the background. Na Heera and Moti song almost kept showing the Swiss flags throughout the music videos either intentionally or unintentionally.

I don't know if there was any controversy with Johnny Lever on the set of this movie, I felt he was needed for the pre-climatic scenes. Govinda accepted the chariot race challenge when he was still present. Suddenly, he was never there for the rest of the movie. I felt he should've been there at least for the chariot race scene.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend this movie to anyone. However, those who love to watch Govinda doing some funny scenes would at least find something entertaining about this movie.

It's a full of comedy. Where govinda and Johnny Lever paired. Kader Khan made the comedy more hilarious. And remember, for laughing on comedies, brain should not use. Music is also worth. Govinda and Johnny are best, you will admit after watching this movie.

Kunwara is another no-brainer from the DD-Govinda department. Nothing is in the right place in this film. The plot looks ridiculous with lots of comedy scenes thrown in coupled with songs and dances which come abruptly without any valid situations.

Govinda is his usual self. He excels at comedy but an actor he is not. Urmila tries hard to make us tickle but fails miserably. Nagma looks lost and this is easily one of her worst performances. Om Puri is wasted and Kader Khan is not too bad.

Overall, Kunwara is another disaster after Chal Mere Bhai and Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge from the David Dhawan camp. Don't watch it unless you want to laugh hard!