Rating-***stars
After the gorgeous and dark opening credits, we meet Karthik, who is constantly bullied by every one around him from the landlord, to his colleagues, to his boss. The girl of his dreams(Deepika) doesn’t even know that he exists. In short, his life is miserable. He looses his job, and decides to end his life. He gets a call on his landline. From himself. Voice on the phone promises to help him change his life, for better.
Soon enough things begin to change. His life is back on track. What follows is a predictable but breezy first half that is great fun to watch. Karthik gets his girl. (Deepika steals the first half with her acting and charms.)
Post interval the movie is plot driven and starts getting darker. All along the audiences try to figure out what exactly is happening.In the scene when his psychiatrist visits him at his apartment, all guesses of audiences are proved wrong. This scene is the single best scene in the movie.
Performance wise all the actors have done very well. Farhan has exceptionally well on two areas: A) the scenes where he is scared audience can clearly feel his fear, B) The menace that he conveys just by his voice on the phone. Deepika is very charming and does full justice to her role, who wouldn’t fall for a character like hers. (By the way her dresses both formal and informal were gorgeous). Ram Kapoor (a very)has a small role of Karthik’s boss but his menace makes me wish I don’t get a boss like him, ever.
My guess for the premise of KCK after initial trailers proved right. Schizophrenia.
As for every good movie based on schizophrenia, all pieces have to fit in perfectly at the end. KCK succeeds excellently in this regard. Yes it has hints of ‘Beautiful Mind’ and ‘Fight Club’. It doesn’t really get to level of Beautiful Mind because the script shies away from taking risks. If it had taken risks chances are that it would have flopped but could have been better movie.
It is a small but smart film that is worthy of at least a single watch.
PS- Deepika is officially my favorite actress from now :-)
Written by Ali Naqvi.
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