Ki & Ka Hindi Movie

One trick pony, too thrilled with itself for offering us a concept that a man would be happy to be house-husband while the woman of the house earned a living. It's interesting for the first twenty minutes, but then the film dives face first into problems that are so made up, so fake you wonder if they thought the film through beyond the 'concept'. Apr 1, 2016 By Manisha Lakhe

So it's 'cute' to have a lad want to play housewife and live off his wife. And he even gets the gorgeous Swaroop Sampat as mother-in-law. The film earns its one star for her. It is a delight to see her on screen after a long, long time. But even her logic and presence do not work to boost the reason why the movie should exist beyond the first twenty minutes. And I am being generous here.

They tell you every two minutes that the gender roles have been reversed. The lad wakes up before the wife does in the morning, does the groceries and cleans up the house before the mother in law and wife wake up. He makes breakfast. He knows the value of breakfast. In fact, he cooks food too. The women in the house are slobs, they wake up late, drink coffee (why is that a masculine trait, who knows!), make presentations, shake hands, come back late from work to piping hot food lad has made.

Its is hell to watch this made up domestic life. The lad 'acts' his way through kitty parties where the 'ladies' love him. He makes Masterchef type food and goes shopping with the same building ladies who, by the way, are all large and shapeless.

Trouble steps into this fake paradise when he gets popular 'socially'. So much so, that you choke to hear him on nothing less but TEDx spouting the value of being a stay-at-home dad. No... Husband. The weird scene where the wife comes home pissed off because she thinks she is pregnant (obviously does not want kids because she's thinking about her career!) makes you wonder if the writer/director actually knows how pregnancy kits work. The woman has to pee in a cup and put a few drops on the test kit. The wife is shown to use different kits (just to make sure she is not preggers) one after the other. How does she manage that? Does she have a magical bladder that can be turned on and off?

Kareena Kapoor as the ambitious wife and Arjun Kapoor as the happy to be at home husband then face faker and faker problems of gender reversal. As she works hard, she comes home late, and he watches TV alone, waits by the food at the dining table, is jealous to be left out at office party... The novelty has worn off, but the filmmaker plods on and on. As the lad finds fame on social media as a house-husband (and gets featured as cover on Femina), she gets jealous and asks him to live within the confines of the house. You wonder whether to choke on the fakeness of their fights or the shameless product placements. You'd rather watch Batman fall into the well and face bats for a hundreth time instead. This is an urban film, and the audience knows that both husbands and wives need to work to make ends meet.

Balki does not let you forget he is friends with Amitabh Bachchan and so we have Jaya Bachchan wanting to meet this lad who is on TV spouting happy stories about living off his wife. In that one scene, Amitabh Bachchan's irritation about, 'What's the big deal?' sums up what the audience is feeling.