Kambakkht Ishq

July. 03,2009      
Rating:
3.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Kambakkht Ishq is about a stuntman and a supermodel that don't believe in love but through a hilarious series of events they fall for each other.

Akshay Kumar as  Viraj Shergill
Kareena Kapoor Khan as  Simrita Rai
Aftab Shivdasani as  Lucky Shergill
Amrita Arora as  Kamini
Boman Irani as  ENT Mental Doctor
Kirron Kher as  Dolly Auntie
Javed Jaffrey as  Keswani
Sheridan Crist as  Deacon
Sylvester Stallone as  Sylvester Stallone
Denise Richards as  Denise Richards

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Reviews

Protraph
2009/07/03

Lack of good storyline.

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Baseshment
2009/07/04

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Bluebell Alcock
2009/07/05

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

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Murphy Howard
2009/07/06

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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M MALIK
2009/07/07

This movie is so Cheap,Vulgar,Shameless,Sex Filled,Bad Humor,Slangs,etc etc etc, i don't have words & i am not gonna find any too to tell the story of this junk movie.Akshay Kumar what are you doing man choosing bad movies. & miss Kareena Kapoor i have lost respect for you after this movie. learn something from your sister Karishma. Kareena please stop doing overacting . & those Hollywood guys uh i feel sorry for them. what were the names. oh yea Denise Richards,Brandon,& Sly Stallone .damnit what is this hunhh! Aftab was OK Amrita was wasted Javed Jaffery as usual looking for his jackpot to make more money .Bollywood meets Hollywood gotta stop. people of India please learn from this nonsense movie they waste your money & time..protest against these films Please!!!the music was average but this movie do not even deserve 0 i am only giving it 1/10 for akshay kumar..

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elshikh4
2009/07/08

This is not crap. It's giant crap ! The deal is like this : a love story, some comedy, many stunts and international locations. Seems cool. But it's WHOLLY not. At first there is a scene where Akshay Kumar plays the stuntman of (Brandon Routh) who's obviously whiter and taller (!) I said to myself now this is wrong. But that wasn't the only wrong thing here; it was just the beginning ! This movie makes itself so unbelievable to stand. It's bad brainless one; namely not where we say "leave your brain at the door" because even if, it would still unbearable. The script is strikingly shitty. After 45 minutes of real silly comedy, hundred coincidences, empty circles, squeezing bore, let alone the sidekick; Vindu Dara Singh, and his wig ! I was about to leave my seat. But lastly, thank god, I found an event with a drama to happen (losing the hand watch inside Kumar's belly). After that it's a romantic comedy I watched uncountable times before and more entertaining than that ! Some points were just embarrassing; the young doc works as a stuntwoman ??? Or the whole sequence of Italy ?!! Most probably they had a chance to shoot there so why not to add some useless, so forced, sequence to be shot there !!Speaking about embarrassment, the action scenes were an awful joke. The movie makers did all of their shooting at where the Hollywood studios used to make their tours; so you'll watch, rather re-watch, many locations and stuffs that were used before in famous old movies like (Beverly Hills Cop III – 1994), (Waterworld – 1995) as they're movies in production ! OK, they thought that nobody would ever pay attention. Now be aware of movies that assume the stupidity of its viewers !I don't think that Sylvester Stallone, who made once his share of bad movies, participated in a crap of this size before. The man was there for 2 short scenes, the second of them was complete idiocy in which he shows suddenly in rough black neighborhood right when the heroine faces some thugs to beat them, saying later (Hey, love is blind) in Indian ??!!. Definitely he was "out of his neighborhood" ! This is how not to utilize a star like him in a cameo. His material would've been more catchy, convincing, and less embarrassing if it was done by Indian star. Otherwise they must've at least re-written it. He did it for the money, maybe the fun, and surely to promote his movie John Rambo! And don't get me talking about Denise Richards; she can't act as a lead in her original movies, so here she couldn't act as a speck of a cameo either. And her role was better being played by any actress as well. As you see this movie was die-hard to put on its poster many known American names as much as it can, but they weren't good roles, and it wasn't a good movie !There is more : the movie uses clips for American stars, maybe recorded from Entertainment Tonight, in the opening credits THEN uses them AGAIN in "the stuntman of the year" sequence !!! Actually, this is nothing compared to the bigger crime that they committed. They hired some celebrities' look-alikes to be in that party, to watch impersonators of Jack Nicholson and Whoopi Goldberg not the real people (???). I think the aim was making it more "Hollywood" but what happened is that it made it as the worst "Bollywood". Another top of embarrassment this movie achieves !I don't like 90 % of the new Indian stars. They lack everything, and most of all the talent. They are pale shadows for the true stars of the Indian classics. I'm not by any chance a fan of Akshay Kumar or Kareena Kapoor. I even can't stand them separately. Especially Kapoor. She's not a pretty dream as what she always had been pictured. She's more like a nightmare for me! Even with heavy portion of sexuality she was utterly unsexy. They put her in swimsuit, very short very tight dresses, only a T-shirt to sleep in, shot her in hot – sometimes dirty – positions with (Kumar), focused on her butt, etc. But despite all of that, and despite the T-shirt matter which was hot, I longed all the time for another actress in all of the above ! While the comedy is so poor, they compensated that by increasing the nakedness, with sexual gags and cheap filthy dialog. The thing about the Indian cinema is that it wasn't used to this type of sexy romantic comedies. They made the escapists smartly before by their own commercial formula. Nowadays, you can notice easily that most of their commercial work became Americanized as hell, looking made by pathetic copycats to entertain an Americanized audience ! And sorrowfully the outcome ends up as tasteless thing that doesn't have the best of both; the American or the Indian cinema. Or in a word a white raven !I liked few lines, the photomontage of the catastrophes that the aunt caused many times before (nice cinema this movie hasn't), and yes.. I must admit.. the T-shirt moment ! Away from that, this movie oozes silliness. Since he was a kid (Kumar) wanted to stand beside (Stallone), and he did it, so here's a movie for him to watch, not us! Like one of its forgettable songs' title (don't want to love), when it comes to (Kambakkht Ishq) I even "can't" love !Finally a question : why the post-ending sequence, with the closing credits, is stolen from the post-ending sequence of Will Smith's movie (Hitch - 2005) ?? Hmmm, I won't tire myself thinking, since we have a maxim in Arabic says "beating the dead is a sin" !

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Avinash Patalay
2009/07/09

Well, with the media taking its toll on Kambakkht Ishq & Akshay Kumar - the expectations runs low and the movie turns out better than expected. Akshay Kumar must be kicking himself not having exercised caution (read that "choose wisely") when he was just between the cup-and-the-lip. Lightning doesn't strike twice my dear friend.Anyways, the love-you & loathe you sequences start from the word go and until it reaches finale there is a fair share of story interlaced with emotion, drama, comedy, tragedy etc. Having said that, there was immense potential to improvise - but hey, who am I to say!¤ Akshay Kumar:: Much before he struck gold I always carried an opinion that give him a nickel and Akshay delivers in dimes. Post success streak that became his style. And now - I am back to my original opinion.¤ Kareena:: The "Poo" character return (albeit in size zero!).¤ Javed Jaffery:: Seriously, what was he doing there?¤ Aftab & Amrita:: Glorified junior-artistes. Reminds me of Rajendranath/ Shobha Khote of 60's.¤ Vindu:: Good to see after a long hiatus. And trying a hand at comedy, eh?¤ Boman Irani & Kiron Kher:: Under-utilisation at its best. Seriously - is money everything? ¤ Hollywood star-cast:: Beyond my comprehension as to why they were there in the first place. Too much of money to flaunt around I guess. The plot could have easily been based in India.¤ Sabir Khan:: Obviously, the master doesn't teach everything to the disciple (ref. Mujhse Shaadi Karogi!)¤ Nadiadwala:: Time to pull up your socks and ensure quality goods are delivered under your baton.Finally, the movie is completely inspired (should I abstain from the word plagiarised?) by Pammal K. Sambandam. Had the project been executed legally involving the great thespian to overlook the proceedings - the results would have been far more superior. On that same note, yesterday I read the producers of Namaste London suing the Bengali filmmaker for copyright infringement. Hello Mr. Akshay Kumar... pot calling the kettle black eh?

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Soniya Ahuja
2009/07/10

I wonder if it really needs an Akki-Bebo pair to make a huge flop with a big budget. Kareena has been her usual self in the movie. Over acting most of the times as in most of her movies (Jab We Met was an exception - may be she was possessed by a good actor's ghost then).Akshay Kumar's face is filled with emotions at some remote times but mostly he is doing nothing but cracking cheap jokes and acting like a stupor.Kareena seems to think of her Size Zero as some accomplishment which none others have. She acts cheap on the screen, adjusting her boobs to allure the audiences but mostly embarrassing most. She ends up looking like a jerk who needn't do what she just did and definitely does not look sexy.Overall, this movie is a waste of time and money. Though it has some big names associated with it, it has no story line and is literally the death of Element in Bollywood. For those who despised Tashan - Don't waste bucks on this one.For those who enjoyed Tashan - this movie is for you guys!

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