Kitne Door... Kitne Paas (2002)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Mehul Kumar

Writers:

Mehul Kumar (screenplay)
Mehul Kumar (story)

Release Date:

1 May 2002 (Kuwait)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Two young Indians, a male named Jatin, and a woman named Karishma, meet on an airplane, who is on it's way to India...

Cast

Fardeen Khan	...	Jatin
Amrita Arora	...	Karishma
Satish Shah	...	Veer Singh / Jeet Singh Rathod / Bhanwar Singh
Tiku Talsania	...	Bapalal Patel
Nasir Khan
Govind Namdeo	...	Ramesh
Shama Deshpande	...	Geeta
Beena Banerjee	...	Rama (as Beena)
Ketki Dave	...	Mrs. Koki Patel
Avtar Gill	...	Kalyanji
Shehzad Khan	...	Police Inspector K.K. Limbachia
Shashi Kiran	...	Pritam Singh
Ram Mohan	...	Grandfather
Razak Khan	...	Razzak Shahjanpuri (as Razzaq Khan)
Roop Kumar Rathod	...	Himself

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Malaysia:U | India:U

Filming Locations:

Film City, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

Mehul Movies

Trivia:

Mahima Chaudhary was the initial choice for the role of Karishma.

Movie Connections:

References Mazdoor (1983)

Soundtrack:

Ji Jeend Jaan

Average, but watchable masala movie

An average Bollywood flick with Ex-VJ Amrita Arora in her first feature film role, a love story about two young NRIs living in the U.S. who go back to India to get married - though both to someone else. Still, they keep bumping into each other on their rather difficult journey home until the frequency of music and dance scenes starts getting higher (i. e. they have fallen in love). The plot is said to have been modelled on the Hollywood flick Forces of Nature (which I haven't seen).

Though quite average, I'd still consider this an ok movie: well choreographed song and dance scenes (though not particularly spectacular ones) and nice, good-looking, rather believable actors in the main roles. Though it was quite peculiar that many dialog scenes were very badly filmed (with bad lighting and awkward camera movements), while in the music and dance sequences the cinematographer seems to have changed: they were just perfect! There you can see again what is most important about masala movies...

This was the second Bollyfilm I have seen as a whole, so I cannot compare it really to lots of others, but I'd still say this is an average, but definitely watchable film, probably also for European audiences. I think here especially of the target group of older Eastern European women who love Latin-American soap-operas (like in my native Hungary) - they'd surely like this one, too... :)