Review : Kuch Khattaa Ho Jaay : Social message with a dose of laughter!

In the era of nuclear families, there still are large joint families in India and the multiple generations live under one roof. The elders are immensely respected in our society and it’s an everyday affair in joint families. In most of the joint families decisions made by elders are binding on everyone irrespective of their likings. The young couple are expected to have babies in the first year of their marriage. Similar situations are amalgamated in a newly released film ‘#KuchKhattaaHoJaay’. The expectations of elders and the trails and tribulations other generations face fulfilling them forms the core portion of the movie. It’s a reasonably made comedy and throws a message too in the end.

Heer Arora (Guru Randhawa) stays in a joint family with uncles and aunties. His grandfather (Anupam Kher) wants him to get married as soon as possible as he is longing to play with his great grand child as none of his three sons have offsprings for various reasons. Heer is still studying in a college and he has a friend Ira Mishra (Saiee M Manjrekar) who aspires to be an IAS officer. But as there’s complications in her family setup, she is forced to marry immediately. Heer is in love with Ira and gives her a proposal of getting married so both their family’s issues get sorted. But after marriage she is pestered to go ‘family’ way instantly. Since her focus is on studying for IAS exams, she and Heer fake a pregnancy. The grandfather and the entire family is elated and starts celebrating. But something goes wrong after her minor accident. What transpires around the incident forms the crux of the narration.

There’s no novelty in the story and the screenplay has the ‘south’ flavour. The director G Ashok has done a few films down south and it reflects in the film’s proceedings. The dialogues are good but the humour looks forced. The film has comedic scenes and some of them are good. The elders should be more understanding with other generations and should not take decisions on their whims and fancies is a message thrown towards the end. Technical sides are of high quality and cinematography is excellent. Music is mainly ‘Punjabi-Hindi’ mix and is passable. Anupam Kher sands out in the lot and delivers a solid performance. Guru Randhawa’s comic timing is super and he shines in comedy scenes. His one liners are humorous and enjoyable. Saiee Manjrekar looks very pretty and gives a sedate performance. Though she is good in emotional scenes, she should brush up her comic timing. Other cast including Ila Arun, Atul Srivastava, Paritosh Tripathi, Paresh Ganatra offer good support. South comic actor Bramhanand creates expected laughter in his cameo.

Kuch Khattaa Ho Jaay delivers a social message with a dose of laughter.

Rating : ***