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Review of Yeh Kaisi Mohabbat
By: S Ramachandran
September 14,2002
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Krishna and Deeksha in
Yeh Kaisi Mohabbat
Yeh Kaisi Mohabbat *1/2
Dir: Dinkar Kapur
Cast: Krishna, Deeksha, Viveka Babajee, Sharad Kapoor, Deepak Tijori, Anjan Srivastava, Johnny Lever and Mukesh Rishi
There are times when you can make a good film with a young energetic cast. And there are times when you make a mess with what you have.
Yeh Kaisi Mohabbat falls in the second category.
Vicky (Krishna) is a wastrel who flicks his friends’ money and behaves as if he is born to dance in music videos. He meets Tina (Deeksha) and both of them fall for each other. But suddenly he sees another woman resembling Tina.
In the meantime he also encounters Priya (Viveka Babajee) who seems to show a lot of interest in him apart from Thakral (Sharad Kapoor).
When Vicky saves Thakral’s life, the latter offers him a job. Tina’s lookalike is now portrayed as Thakral’s bewafa wife. Tina Turner is killed and Krishna is blamed. Now Tina surfaces and it turns out that Priya has been killed. One ACP (Mukesh Rishi moving his neck like a spondylitis patient) investigates. Who is the killer? Thakral, Krishna or someone else?
I am sure, that I would be a killer if I get my hands on the screenwriter.
By the way, Johnny Lever is playing a Sikh called Iqbal Singh who comes into the picture cracking silly jokes when the going gets serious.
If you are able to handle the first half, the second half is tolerable. Director Dinkar Kapur tinkers with a slipshod script, aided by a cast who resemble products in a furniture showroom. Debutant Krishna copies his uncle Govinda in style and dance, Rajnikanth during fights and a tree while acting. Deeksha needs a major dose of deeksha in acting and Babajee is not right for the bioscope.
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