Khichdi Movie Review, Rating

What was widely touted as its USP becomes the biggest glitch for Khichdi: The Movie.The film is obviously out to milk the huge fan base of the popular sitcom on which it is based.

Watching the big screen version you realise why that ambition was skewed from the start. For all its tricks as a TRPpusher on the small screen, Khichdi: The Movie unfolds too much like a TV serial.

For those who came in late, Khichdi is about the Parekhs — a funny family of Gujaratis who seem to have a combined brain the size of a pea. In the film, heroine Hansa’s (Supriya Pathak) brother Himanshu (JD Majethia) has a loony brainwave. He wants to have a memorable love story of his own. He finds the right girl by way of the friendly neighbourhood Parminder.

A regular marriage wouldn’t let the guy have his ‘ memorable love story’. Which in turn means the script gets the scope for a madcap twist as Himanshu backtracks on the eve of his wedding.

The movie essentially follows the template set by the serial: keep piling a series of gags — some funny, most of them too silly to be funny — and weave a sort of narrative in between.

Rating - 2.5 / 5