Saif ali with kids at Kambakkht Ishq screening

it's not a matter of competency....imagine what kind of ratings they would get, cheap jokes, lots of violence, some with questionable clothing

Anonymous on Mon, 2009-07-06 01:34.
"which organization in India do you think will offer the ratings? "
so r u telling me that indians arent competent enough to have an organization that could offer a rating system? i beg to differ. when we can make multi million dollar movies and have a censor board, then why not a rating system???
plus, as far as my "ramblings" r concerned, u urself called me a brainiac, that means that i'm pretty intelligent, hehe. now dont get upset, i'm just teasing ya.
i thought we could have a healthy adult discussion without getting personal................

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2009-07-04 18:33- which organization in India do you think will offer the ratings? brainiac, your two cents are senseless ramblings.

point is kids in india watch the ridiculous hindi movies and other language films starting at a young age
no one asked babysitting info from you
name one hindi movie that has a rating.
kids in india and indian kids watch "this crap" regardless of whether their mummies and daddies acted in them
get a brain and a life before you offer your crappy suggestions and get a reality check about babysitting in india

."what kind of ratings do these hindi movies have? and how many people leave their kids with baby sitters in india when they go to watch movies????"
none, but they should have ratings.
also, ppl should leave kids home especially when watching this kind of movies. if u dont have a baby sitter, find someone else like a family member or a friend. if u've none, sstay home and do something meaningful with ur kids rather than watching this crap.
anon, what is ur next suggestion: ppl who watch porn movies should take their kids along as well, cause no one in india has babysitters????

some of you are so full of it....what kind of ratings do these hindi movies have? and how many people leave their kids with baby sitters in india when they go to watch movies????

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Masand's Movie Review: Kambakkht Ishq vulgar, offensive
Rajeev Masand / CNN-IBN

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Amrita Arora

Director: Sabbir Khan

How much you enjoy Kambakkht Ishq is directly proportionate to just how low your standards have fallen. This battle-of-the-sexes saga starring Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor is a loud, vulgar and seriously offensive film that has reportedly been made at a price of Rs 60 crore. In that much money, you could feed an entire starving nation. And you'd be blessed for it.

I'm not saying the makers of Kambakkht Ishq have no business spending so much money. I'm just saying, if you must spend Rs 60 crore, the least you can do is give us a good film.

Akshay Kumar plays Viraj Shergill, a Hollywood stuntman who beds a new broad every day but loves his bachelor lifestyle too much to settle for anything permanent. He meets his match in Kareena Kapoor who plays Simrita Rai, a medical student-cum-part-time model who hates the very sight of men, convinced they're only interested in women for sex. The two of them clash when their respective best friends decide to tie the knot, but things take an unexpected turn when - believe it or not - Simrita accidently loses her musical watch inside Viraj's body while performing a surgery on him. Mortified that she could be sued for her negligence, she must find a way to get him back on the operation table so she can retrieve the watch. He, on the other hand, can't seem to figure out why his ears keep ringing with a musical chant every hour.

Watching Kambakkht Ishq, you know you can't apply logic to a film like this. There are dozens of questions that have no answers - Who allowed her to keep her watch on while performing surgery? What kind of battery does this watch run on for it to break into music every hour inside a man's stomach? What kind of stuntman can afford a luxurious condo overlooking the sea? Where in the world can you expect to find Sylvester Stallone lurking in alleys waiting to come to the rescue of hapless girls?

I could go on till tomorrow.

The problem with this film isn't that it's ridden with logical loopholes. Those you're even willing to turn a blind eye to, in keeping with the film's screwball nature. What is inexcusable is the consistently crude tone of the film. So while a scene in which a big black female customs officer practically rips through Akshay's backside to search for drugs might still make you laugh, what isn't very funny is a scene in which Akshay farts in Amrita Arora's face for no reason at all. That's just sick.

I also don't see the humor in Akshay and Kareena referring to each other as "dog" and "bitch" repeatedly, and believe me, those are some of the milder profanities they use in the film. Besides, there are innumerable references to sex, virginity and homosexuality, and to be honest many of them just aren't funny. Like the scene in which Akshay tries to set Kareena up with a girl because she's made her dislike for men quite apparent. When Kareena responds that she's not interested in sleeping with either a man or a woman, Akshay is ecstatic at the mystery he believes he's just solved - "Virgin! You're a virgin," he taunts her.

What's so funny, you ask.

I want to add here that slapping a woman is just wrong, and using that as comedy is plain offensive. In more scenes than one, Akshay Kumar physically abuses female characters - including one in which he slaps Amrita Arora across her face four times. I don't care that Amrita Arora probably deserves some kind of punishment for her lousy acting, but I'm sorry Akshay, real men don't raise their hands on women. Even as a joke.

Provocative, but just for the sake of it, director Sabbir Khan resorts to cheap gimmicks for the sake of cheap thrills - like a group of girls flashing their breasts to the men at a wedding reception, and Akshay Kumar grabbing Kareena and smooching her forcibly on the lips.

In terms of performances, there is very little that can be said about both leads. Kareena Kapoor, an actress blessed with scorching screen presence and immense talent, stoops to a new career low with Kambakkht Ishq. I can't imagine why any respectable actress would agree to play such a crass character and participate in the film's sexist jokes which include - on at least two occasions - her yanking her neckline down to reveal more cleavage and raising her hemline up to show more leg. Although the film benefits from Kareena's star wattage, it will remain an ugly blot on her resume. Akshay Kumar, for his part, recycles many of the same jokes from his earlier films and relies on broad physical comedy to draw the laughs. But he's running out of steam, and the loud, coarse humor is getting repetitive. At his best when he's comically endearing, one of the most entertaining scenes in the film is the one in which he's discovered to his horror who will be performing surgery on him. Muttering and cursing her as the anesthesia kicks in, he leaves you in splits.

Judged purely on its screenplay, Kambakkht Ishq spirals downwards in its second half, when the tone shifts abruptly from comedy to sappy romance. Those supposedly emotional scenes in the film's third act aren't in the least convincing, and only slacken the film's pace considerably.

On the upside, Kambakkht Ishq has attractive camerawork, and set in the heart of Hollywood you're treated to a ringside view of such local attractions as the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Universal Studios and the Kodak Theatre. There is also the opportunity to see a few daring stunts being filmed, but those scenes sadly are too short.

The real humor in this film lies in the clever bits. Like that scene at an Action Awards ceremony where the audience rises to its feet to accord respect to what they think might be the Indian National Anthem when what's actually playing is that musical marriage chant in Akshay's body.

Unfortunately such moments are few and far between in what is ultimately a loud, vulgar film. Which brings me to another concern - Kambakkht Ishq has been rated U/A by the Censor Board which means children of all ages can see the film as long as they're accompanied by an adult. I don't mean to be a prude, but do we really want our kids to learn about sex from the movies? From this movie?

I'm going with one out of five for director Sabbir Khan's Kambakkht Ishq. Think of it as Welcome or Singh Is Kinng but about twenty times more tasteless. Of course it worries me that that description might excite some viewers to check it out!

Rating: 1 / 5 (Poor)

she looks olds

hey real1, nobody is commenting on akshsay's son cause his pic is not posted here so most ppl dont know that he was at the screening as well. and nobody said that "only" saif's kids at the screening is a bad thing. we r talking about being discreet with kids, ie all kids.

This idiot "Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009-07-03 00:51" will find anything ridiculous thing to comment on. Quite childish and hyprocritical! By the way, comments on having the kids watching movies with kissing scenes, i guess you were blindfolded by your parents in watching Nick TV, Disney and other American TV shows. It's quite hilarious, some of you must be from different planets. Akshay's son was at the screening of the movie, why aren't commenting on that?

i dont know about the jawline but what about her nose??? it looks more refined to me now as compared to her early days.
as far as taking the kids to watch the "wahyaat"movie is concerned. i can bet that all the ppl who r saying that kids know a lot, etc etc dont have kids themselves. and yeah, sharmila tagore wore a bikini, saif does kissing scences, bebo wears next to nothing clothes etc etc but there is an age for everything, thats why hollywood has a rating system plus dude, its embarassing. seriously, i watched salaam namaste with my mom, i am 26 and still it was embarassing.

she had to pick a favorite feature and she picked something safe, no big deal, what did you want her to say? butt?

Then how come her face looks the same chubby way in teh pic I posted?
And kareena's always liked her jawline. In one of her earlier interviews, she was asked about her favorite feature and she said her jawline, that was back in 2004. Why would hse get it tweaked if she calls it her favorite feature?

even if she lost weight, you don't get such jaw lines without surgery
why is it so unbelievable that she did surgery, her sis did too, they have the manly faces and needed to tweak them

Kareena has never gotten any surgery done. Her cheeks are still the same as they've always been, though a bit more prominent thanks to her weight loss. Here is her most recent pic.
She looks NORMAL
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I don't understand why a issue is made of saif's kids thinking about their dad and his gf's movie n stuff. I agree with few comments that kids know much more these days than we used to but dont forget their grandma Sharmila did wore a bikini in her film n specially in those days when it was a bold move to do so.

Thu, 2009-07-02 13:26.
Thanks! Thats what I thought...Hillary Duff had gotten her cheeks sucked in a while back as well and seeing this picture of kareena reminds me of how hillary started to look after she had gotten them done!
Kareena has always had a chubby face...and no matter how much weight u loose if u have a round face its always gonna be round!...I have that much knowledge lol ... And in here she looked like she got work done, as Hillary did post hers...so I mentioned it!...They have all da money in the world why cant they get it done?

i agree these are not kid-worthy movies but kids these days have knowledge about everything and watching kissing's no taboo. their dad did that in his movies

She looks old I agree with you. And I agree with the people who said why take your kids to a movie that has kissing scenes. Eww.

there are you guys happy, he's out with his kids
she is old, she looks old, what's so newsworthy about it? we all age

go to kareenak.net and see the family section...will find plenty of babita with kareena at anonymous 1432 7/02/09 below

bebo u r gorgous and keep it up. u are the best actress

It's such a pity that many bloggers are full of hatred and contempts. I think she looks OK. There are so many actresses who looks hideous and get so much respects from you. I admire individuals who exercise and eat well, and she seems to be doing that. Having a trim and healthy body is really good.

can some one post new pics of babita plz i have not seen it for ages

she had surgery she admitted it in 1 of her interviews!! check it out on you tube...i will post the link when i find it

last picture is babita kapoor, kareena and karishma's mom and randhir kapoor's wife!

bebo is looking gorgous and will watch the movie

sme one mentioned 'cheek implants' lol what a loser
she lost like 20 kgs obviously her face gonna lose fat so the cheekbone starts appearng

LOL I think the wisest thing to do would be to just stick to Rajshri productions films when that happens! (The makers of Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, Hum Saath Saath Hain, Vivah etc)