Kapil's Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon Is Regressive Filmmaking At Its Worst

Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon, Abbas-Mustan's attempt at comedy is a sickening film that should make everyone angry with its medieval repressiveness. In this 'comedy', Kapil Sharma - who is singing, dancing and doing everything he should not be doing, all in a bid to be accepted as a mainstream hero - ends up 'accidentally' marrying three women and falls in love with a fourth who he truly wants to marry.

These accidents happen mostly because the women are on the verge of dying. Being women, if a man dumps you, the next logical step is to jump off a bridge or into a burning pyre. After all, you are as good as the man you marry. And if you've suffered a wardrobe malfunction as a model, like Simran Kaur Mundi's character here, rest assured that no man will touch you. In fact, he will dump you on the wedding day. Ouch, marital malfunction.


So Simran Kaur, Manjari Fadnis and Sai Lokur become Kapil's wives and on his best friend, Varun Sharma's (genuine comic relief) advice, Kapil decides to buy them swanky apartments in the same building on different floors. The three of them are shown to be so incredibly dumb that even after becoming best friends, they don't figure out that they share a common husband until he confesses.

When they're not waiting up for Kapil to show up, they are doing Karva Chauths and cleaning his underwear. No, really. This is 2015 and we're still making films where this is the best we can do for female characters. Oh, they also join a ladies club (where Elli Avram does a strip-tease. Wait, what?).

An epic scene is when the girls figure out they live in the same building. No, they don't bump into each other in an elevator or the compound. They meet at MARINE DRIVE! Because anything remotely realistic would mean these are real people and not dimwits, who they are expected to be.


It is one thing to do comedy for television with a laugh track in the background and another to be an actor. Unfortunately, Kapil is funny only occasionally and as far as acting is concerned, that's something he shouldn't seriously consider. There's a ghastly song in which he appears and that's the point when you realise that he's just not cut out to be a Hindi film hero.

As for the women, all of them compete for the tag of worst performer but Elli wins hands down.

Then, there's a deaf don in Arbaaz Khan who doubles up as his brother-in-law, a maid who mistakes Newton for Nutan and an elderly couple (Sharat Saxena and Supriya Pathak) romancing on Bandstand. With these tactics, the film makes desperate efforts to be a laugh riot but comes close only to being a random commotion.


However, the lack of humour or the poor performances isn't even the worst part of the film. It goes a step ahead and justifies Kapil's philandering ways. He's a messiah who rescued these women who had nothing better to pursue, no real reason to live other than fall for a man who glorifies polygamy as a perfectly nice thing to do! All it took was a corny speech and boom, he's added another chick to the wife catalogue.

To add insult to the injury, they all happily move into the same flat! While one can argue "Oh, it's just another mindless comedy," that's an even more dangerous attitude to have. In the garb of humour, you can't pass off something so backward-thinking and reductive. It's a poor reflection of the mentality of our writers and directors, an ilk traditionally believed to be as the ones challenging stereotypes and breaking new ground.


I hope we've seen the worst already because if this isn't, then we need to be really, really worried.