Sunday, October 19, 2014

Movie Telling ;D: Khoobsurat


I happened to watch the movie Khoobsurat recently and I just loved it for numerous reasons.
Reason 1: It is a complete chick flick.
Reason 2: It is simple yet entertaining
Reason 3: The hero(Fawad) is Super-Handsome
Reason 4: Sonam's quirky and colorful clothes

Ok, the plot is very simple, nothing out of the box; but since it was co-produced by the Disney Pictures it had a dreamy, fairy tale kind of feel. I just went back to the Cinderella, Snow white and 7 dwarfs' era. Also, it is very modern too... totally this era with Sonam taking numerous selfies in every place possible.

Well, the story goes like this (No spoiler alerts! coz the movie is very simple and me revealing the story would not do much damage). There's this Mili Chakravarthy, a physio with a loud mouthed punjabi mother played by Kiron Kher who fits into the role to the T. She has done a great job like in any other movies (read Dostana). So, one day Dr. Mili (who calls her mommy by her name, Manju) gets an opportunity to serve the King of a royal family. So, that is when the whole story begins...The royal family has the King with a medical condition due to which he is wheel chair ridden, the uptight, highly disciplined queen, a handsome prince engaged to be married and a princess who wished to break free and pursue arts.

Among st this royal family is the very own misfit, middle class, clumsy, goofy Dr. Mili (which reminded me of Princess Dairies) who keeps irking the queen with her care free, I-Don't-care-a-damn antics. And the king has huge guilt pangs of his older son's death due to which he resists Mili's treatment. Obviously, Mili being the high spirited girl wins his heart along with the housekeeping staffs' as well. Oh! she wins the heart of the royal daughter and in fact inspires her to follow her acting dreams.

Initially, the prince is annoyed with her over zealous attitude but eventually falls for her and yes! they kiss which brings about a sense of awkwardness between them. Mili hides her true feelings initially considering he is engaged to be married and their life goes on until one day, when the royal daughter decides to flee from house to attend an audition. This creates a huge ruckus at the palace; Mili bears the brunt and she's asked to pack her bags.

There is a twist if you could call that..daughter returns, Kings resumes to walk, prince realizes his true feelings for Mili, Queen realizes her mistake of rebuking Mili and asks the prince to follow Mili to her home.

Finally, they meet, eat and they live happily ever after!

So, that's the magical fairy tale for you.

The logic, sci-fi, horror genre loyalists would not like it. But I thoroughly enjoyed it for, it is not a heavy duty movie :).