Well, nothing has changed. Kambakht Ishq directed by Sabbir Khan is the same old, typical Akshay Kumar comedy flick. Expensive sets, 4 odd songs filled with babes from the west, a couple of great action sequences performed by the star himself, a super sexy co-star, funny one-liners and a story that completely lacks sense or logic.
So what’s the story? In short, a guy and a girl hate each other to the core but end up falling in love. Yes, that’s about it.
For those keen on the detailed storyline.. Viraj Shergill (Akshay Kumar) is one of the most sought-after Stuntmen in Hollywood. He believes woman are good for nothing, except sex. Simrita (Kareena Kapoor), an arrogant young lady doesn’t believe in love. The two meet at Viraj’s brother Lucky’s (Aftab Shivdasani) and Simrita’s best friend Kamini’s (Amrita Arora) wedding. Both oppose and the battle of sexes begins! But like most Bollywood movies, the two are destined to fall in love.. the weird manner in which they do and realize their mistake, forms the rest of the tale.
Review in short.. Sadly, the best part of Kambakth Ishq is its first 15 mins. Its starts off brilliantly, but falls flat after the church scene. Infact, the second half is so poor, I would rather prefer watching a Tashan instead! Or maybe even Chandni Chowk To China.. atleast the songs were better!
Have patience for a detailed review? Read on.. Kambakth Ishq has to be one of the most desperate attempts to make people laugh, atleast in recent memory. And out of all the so-called funny scenes, probably two are worth a laugh.
In one of the most stupid plots ever witnessed in an Akshay Kumar film, we have the leading lady (Kareena), a doctor, performing her first surgery on her male lead (Akshay), who is injured while performing a stunt. While operating she happens to leave her watch inside his stomach. The watch keeps playing “Om Mangalam” every hour, so loudly that it could put the best of audio speakers to shame. The doctor, worried of being sued, tries every trick in the book to get the watch out and even sleeps with him (or atleast she thinks so). Now, Akshay falls in love, so what does he do? He slips her into a bikini, takes her underwater and proposes.. What does Kareena do? Injects him out of his consciousness and performs a surgery to take the watch out. HECK! Couldn’t she do that much earlier? Okay its a mindless entertainer, but neither is it entertaining or funny!
By the time, the only decent song in the film ‘Kyun’ begins, the restlessness amongst the audience is clear. Some get up to leave, clearly disappointed.
The dialogues are cheap, music (Anu Malik) is pathetic, lyrics are horrible and the performances are no better. Akshay Kumar in yet another slapstick comic role has a bad outing yet again, he tries hard but rising above the script, he doesn’t! Kareena Kapoor in her bitchiest role ever, displays ample amount of skin but disappoints with her performance. Aftab Shivdasani is wasted and so is Kiron Kher. Javed Jaffrey has just about 3 scenes and 10 minutes of screen time. Amrita Arora has nothing to do, she looks great in those bikini’s though.
Coming to the Hollywood stars, the only actor who manages to impress is Sylvester Stallone, being a huge fan of the actor I enjoyed his short guest appearance. Denise Richards looked bad. Brendon Routh was wasted.
Overall, Kambakht Ishq is a lot of money wasted. It neither entertains nor does it have enough ‘laughs’ in store for the viewers. Skip this, watch New York instead!
At the box-office, the movie has released on more than 2000 screens. The first weekend should be huge. But for a big budget film like this, its first Monday will be the key.
Rating: 
1 and a half stars
Other Notes: Promised to publish the Kambakht Ishq Movie Review by 3AM, but couldn’t due to heavy rains. Expectations weren’t too high, yet the movie was a major disappointment. These are just ‘my views’ on Kambakht Ishq, and as the saying goes to each his own! Do post your reviews below, if you happen to watch it. We also request you (read Akshay Kumar fans) to avoid bashing, cursing and instead, post your very own views and tell us why you liked the movie, be honest.
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Hi Fathiya
You are 100%. Gosh you think exactly like me, my husband also agrees most men need to burned even though he is a man himself. I’m not the kind of girl to take any orders whatsoever and conform to a schedule by a man of any sort. Each and everyday I live my life 100% the way I want to. I go about my business with no worries don’t have to rush anything, otherwise like you I would have stayed single if my husband was like all the other crap out there. I won’t make it long, because each and every word you said I agree with and follow and so does my husband. Otherwise I would have killed him by now hahah!!! I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you with your husband but it made you stronger and you stood your ground and that’s important like alot of women you didn’t give in.
To Ashan Khan
Fathiya isn’t from India, that just shows how much attention you pay. And she can post whatever she wants, this isn’t YOUR site.
Ahsan Khan: What?!! What did u say?!!! that was my first time to be out of India?! Did u mean to say out of Bahrain and not India?! for your kind information.. that’s my 30th visit to london as I go every year there.. my father had a house in London for almost 30 years, and I visited many cities in Europe as well as New York City twice + India 5 cities of India in 2006.
I can’t say anything about Akshay’s movie coz I didn’t see it yet, I loved Singh is Kinng and 8×10 Tasveer, so u can’t assume that I’ll find KI a bad movie. .yeah I found cc2c a bad movie in those 10 minutes which I watched and didn’t need to continue watching it but I found SIK a funny movie and loved Akshay’s role as a funny sikh.. so this might be too a good movie.. I don’t know.. my feeling is that the movie is not bad like Tashan & cc2c.. might be little better because Silvester Stallone did a role in an indian movie.. so it must be good..
Ahsan Khan: don’t jump into some conclusion, wait till I watch it.. but one thing I could say about Karina’s look.. she’s so beautiful in this movie, in few scenes which I saw her in the trailer.. she was really stunning.. she’s perfect in her styles & makeup and not too skinny or fat.. she’s just perfect in her look and the dresses she wears.. she’s stylish now.
Fathiya ! thanks.
if you don’t mind, where are you from?
I’m from Bahrain, Gulf Arabia, but I’m not Arab because 90% of Arab ppl don’t watch hindi movies because they don’t understand it but Persian do.. I’m Persian.
First of all.. I’ve to say something about the movies.. the categories of the movies.. there’re different comedy movies.. different levels.. there’re some quality & good comedy which comes along with a good script, with a romantic script and with some superstar actors similar to: Kal Ho Na Ho, Kank, Hum Tum, Dil Chata Hai.. and there’re some “pure” comedy movies which r made only to make u “laugh” and which is not based on some good scripts, actually pure comedy movies don’t need a good script e.g. Masti, No Entry ( 2 of my favourite pure comedy movies) as well as those crap Golmaal series, Welcome and the rest.. comedy movies also has some levels.. there’re some high quality which u wl give them 4/5 or 5/5 and some cheap.. very cheap like the rest which aren’t funny at all but silly.
Singh is Kinng was a good comedy with some nice songs, but with some scenes which I didn’t agree for.
KI was also a good passtime movie, so let me explain in brief the possitive and the negative in this movie:
The possitive:
– A big movie with a nice cinematography, with some quite good songs.. 2 or 3.
– Karina was so beautiful, stylish in this movie.. not very skinny and I loved her hairstyles, makeup & dresses.
– a funny and not a bad comedy.
the negative:
– Vulgar in some scenes.. some bad language specially that Akshay called Karina twice in the movie (bitch)! and she kept quiet! is that a cool language nowadays?! maybe.. coz even drinking alcohol is cool in indian movies which was different in the past! in the past some bad women used to smoke and drink.. but now it’s cool to drink in parties and in night clubs.. just normal! and that ofcourse encourage all the girls to do the same! if smoking is forbidden in bollywood movies so drinking also should be the same.. if India was a conservative country then they’d hv never allowed all this in their movies.
– Karina agreed to shoot for a vulgar bad scene.. the scene while she’s riding a bike with Akshay, to shoot for a movie, and she tries to set infront of Akshay.. so vulgar and cheap.
– The scene where Akshay is wearing a black curley hair on his head and painted his face with black.. I didn’t like this scene
– I didn’t like Karina in the black swimming suit
To be honest…the movie was a good pastime.. that’s what I can say about it
too late
Worst movie of the millenium!!!
Simply the insult of Bollywood legends like Sylvester Stallone.
kareena should better concentrate on their films rather showing their skins…
And Mr. Akshay Kumar, I think your humor will not work know, viewers need some sensible stories and they are simply not fool now. I mean how can the prestigous star like Akshay can accept such vulgar films!!!
It totally busted my mind,what a pathetic language used in this films, and kisses and kisses without any meaning. Certainly, would have copied bollywood films, but that type of films is with sensible stories and incredible stunts, which our films cant even copy 1%. so we better should be in our limits and should show our culture and tradition rather showing illogical vulgarities.
below avg. film……poor akki for actin in such a movie…anyway akki was superb…. but the film suxxxxxx…. pls sabir khan stop ur direction…
the movie was good….laughed a lot…javed jaffery’s short role was also gud….
the songs were very very bad…
the end was not too gud….
but overall a nice movie to see…..3 stars frm me
This is such a crude and horrible remake of a good and really funny tamil movie… Akshay kumar plays Kamal hassan’s roll and he sucks at it he has not even performed .1% of what kamal hassan has performed… and the stupid kareena cant act for nuts and is horrible on screen with her dumb attitude.. she should be called dumbo instead of bebo or whatever that is.. over all the 4 screenplay writers had a loose motion while writing this and they wrote the same screenplay as the tamil one the only difference was in the hurry and anger they mutilated it with vulgar shit.. bollywood has taken people for granted and makes stupid movies like this where in akshay kumar plays a stunt man for a hollywood star who is taller and stronger than this chimp.. why cant bollywood directors try something simple and subtle like taare zameen par has bollywood run out of good directors..
this movie is total hype and has nothing in it other than 2 half naked idiots shouting at each other without any purpose in life.. this movie would have done better if this was a bhojpuri movie….
To Sachin July 12th
The Background musical at the airport scene when Akshay come out of the airport is from the song “HOT STEPPER” from INI KAMOZE.
Watch it on You tube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3uZhh4HpKI
All these people who think this movie is FUNNY or HILARIOUS. It is the biggest piece of dog **** I have ever seen. These people have either worked on the film and stand to make money from it, are brain dead, have had lobotomies that went wrong or are under the age of 6.
People please stop smoking the ganja and come back to reality.
cudnt help myself but i just had to write a comment of my own. wot type of bullshit are you guy n girls sayin. Akshay Kumar has done some great and fantastic movies in the past, so he wanted to try omething new. I see no problem in that. Even for hollywood actors/actresses, it’s the same. For example, Look at arnold schwarzenegge, Great bodybuilder in the past and great actor. When we hear his name, what do we think. we’ll only think ‘ACTION’, right? but wrong. did u know that arnold also has some movies including full frontal female and male nudity. no u didnt!. See!
So wot, akhsay wanted to try something new, maybe he was sick n tired of comedy and under 18 movies, maybe he wanted to try a movie that adults would actualy enjoy.
Arnold shcwarzenegger – Action, Comedy, Adult Humor, Horror, Nudity, thriller
Sly Stallone – Action, Humor, Nudity, Horror, thriller.
Brad pitt – Action, Comedy, Nudity, Humor, Thriller
Same goes with akhsay kumar – Action, Comedy, Adult Humor, Nudity, Thriller/Horror.
As a matter of fact, you should be glad that akhsay didnt do any more excessive nudity in KI. Hollywood movies and grave amount of nudity, kissing scenes, Bed scenes, Sex Scenes, Sexy Scenes, and we dont seem to say anything about that. But wen akhsay decides to do a movie with some adult humor and maybe 1 or 2 sexy scenes, you idiots are throwing a fit. Wots rong with u, stupid people. Its probably the only way he came get known in Hollywood aswell.
Oh and by he way, The song Kambakht Ishq and scene where a bunch of girls flash their boobs at aksay and a few other guys. If you look carefully WITH YOUR EYES, you will notice that they have some sort of tight piece of clothing on, covering their boobs. You all should be thankfull that they didnt show the nipples on camera. STUPID PEOPLE U R.
I loved this movie. Dont mind wochin it again, again and AGAIN. Great songs, great action scenes, Great Adult Humor, Great Comedy and Great work Akhsay and Kareena. Keep it up, hope more movies like this are out soon. Fantastic Film.
Dude there must be something wrong with u if u call this adult humour man.. No one here has a personal vendetta against Akshay kumar or Kareena Kapoor… You need to grow up and see outside your prejudism and partial review…
When u talk about hollywood actors like Arnold , Sylvester Stallone and Brad Pitt apart from their nudity there is something more to the movie too… We are talking about that… See there is a very thin line between being fashionable, Sensual and being vulgar.. The hollywood ones are sensual and this particular movie was vulgar… Let me explain to u the difference since u seem to not know the difference…
A bunch of girls showing around their tits for no reason just because the director wanted to some show girls on the screen so that perverts like u would watch the movie again and again and satisfy urself… And being sensual is showing the hero and heroine making love not because the director wanted them naked on screen but the script actually required it…
Can u tell me one such scene where in the script actually needed them both naked on the screen..
Also stating about the hollywood movies.. Just think with some logic (i know u dont have any) but still try Akshay kumar is 5 feet 10 inches and Brandon routh is in the excess of 6 feet and he is caucasian just imagine there is so much of contrast between these guys and apparently Akshay plays the stunt dupe for this golliath… This is totally absurd and ridiculous… This is not called trying something new dude this is called trying something desperate so that knuckle heads like u can imagine urself as Akshay and get a life…
And if u so wanted just some adult movie then all u could do is rent a porn movie man… And stop writing such ridiculous reviews just to please ur ego man.. We people are not stupid its u who is making a stupid of urself man.. Get a life…
Nothing personal dude pure Business… Hope u understand some day that u were an idiot to post such a reply for a god forsaken movie…
All the best dude try not to get into an asylum.. The movie could put u there if u keep watching it….
I got to watch this movie only yesterday. Although the storyline was dumb, this movie was nicely done. Kareena looks so hot and the scenaries and song add glamour to the movie. Anyways it is much better than Sinng is Kinng. I really like this movie. I’ll give 3 1/2 stars for this.
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