Luv Shuv Te Chicken Khurana in short is a one tine watch, has the desi mitti di mehak of Punjab, good acting, but a simple feel good movie with nothing special, simple plot, but could be better. Everybody played their roles upto the mark, with special mention about Rajesh Sharma, the odd pagal type character. This film is directed by Sameer Sharma, and this is his first film as director, and he is good for the first attempt, and produced by UTV and Anurag Kashyap, had the story and presentation become tauter, probably it will also have that taste which was missing.
Omi Khurana (Kunal Kapoor) has taken some money from Shanty (Manish Makhija), a UK gangsta, and he now wanted it back, so Omi comes to India to steal some money from his family, which composes of an ill Darji (Vinod Nagpal), his chacha (Rajendra Sethi), loving Chachi, young brother Jeet (Rahul Bagga), a love whom he left while running away from home Harman (Huma Qureshi), and now a new character is also there – Titu Mama (Rajesh Sharma), who is kaam ka na kaaj ka, dushman anaaj ka types. Omi knew that his Darji’s dhaba was a famous dhaba because of his Darji’s special dish, which he called as ‘Chicken Khurana’, so he thought that he will get money from the earnings, but found Darji ill (unable to speak), and Dhaba closed long ago. Now he has to decide what he has to do to pay money back to the Motorwala gangsta – Whether he should find out the secret recipe and sell it to the competitor dhabawala Kehar Singh (Vipin Sharma), or start the dhaba again. See and check out for yourself.
Well, let me point out the positives and negatives of the movie simultaneously, the biggest +ve thing here was the feel and the set, it has the authentic smell of Punjab village, and a Punjabi family, the togetherness, big family with everybody loving everybody else, and everybody caring everybody else. The real sets and the khusboo of Punjab as beautifully captured, great work by the art direction and the DOP units. Characters too are chosen well, though I felt that some characters doesn’t comes out that much well, like the character of Buaji, played by Dolly Ahluwalia, the character was not developed fully, and it seems that the expectation I set after watching the trailers, was not fulfilled fully. Yes, but the character of Titu mama was the best, he looked wacky and tacky and mad, with the one-liners given to him are good ones, and played wonderfully by Rajesh Sharma. Kunal and Huma did their roles as per the demand, kunal is a fine actor, and he shows it here as well. He just doesn’t do drama-shama, just act it simple (like Abhay Deol). The music was good, especially the two songs which I liked ‘Kikli Kalerdi’ (sung by Amit Trivedi, Pinky and Yo Yo Honey Singh), and the other ‘Motorwada’ (Tochi Raina, Amit Trivedi), lyrics were written with pure regional smell in it (by Shellee), and once again its Amit Trivedi with the different kinda music (he can be put alongwith the other different music generation stars like Sneha Khanwalkar). I liked the use of ‘Motorwada’ song as the theme music for the Gangsta Shanty’s entry, the line I liked was ‘Bhag Bhag Bhagat Bhagat BHAAAG!”, lyrics were wacky. Story was simple but still different (Sameer Sharma, Sumit Batheja), but I felt that the film could be better with such a story, Director Sameer make the film as simple, but something was missing, it does not have that spark which some other movies of the same genres was having like ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’ or ‘Oye Lucky Lucky Oye’. The movie took off slowly and went at the smooth pace the whole its running time which was around 2 hrs 15 min. 2nd half was better than the 1st one. Some dialogues irritated me, like the one which comes 3-4 times in the movie “Pound deja, Dreams leja”.
The movie can be watched once for the Punjab di khushboo and backdrop. And the movie is a god family movie, where you can even look for the crow’s attempt of helping the characters. Just like in the family, the characters are trying to make the signature dish of ‘Chicken Khurana’ but was not able to since that special Darji’s ingredient was missing, similarly I will say that even Sameer here tried the same with his film but missed it too, had the movie have that special ingredient, it could have been better. My take 3/5.
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