Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 movie review: Kaiko?

Director Anukalp GoswamiActors Kapil Sharma Tridha ChoudhuryRating 1 starThe point of a sequel is you must ideally recall if not actually care for the original ie Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon KKPKmdash let alone whether it was a hit hence fit for this theatrical revivalThe latterrsquos unlikely It wouldrsquove made the then debutant lead actor still Indiarsquos top TV standup comedian Kapil Sharmarsquos career in the movies as a resultItrsquos been exactly a decade sinceFrom my expressed memory of the film that is its review then AbbasMustanrsquos KKPK mdash sexcomedy about a filthy rich husband with three frisky housewives mdash was a semifine guilty snigger for a homeview at best if you could get past its crappy cardboard aestheticsMy only visual memory of the movie is the three wives simultaneously waving goodbye to the same hero from their separate balconiesTherersquos a shot like that in this second part too thatrsquos been produced by AbbasMustan instead of the rsquo90s blockbuster duo directing it this time onAnd which I believe has emerged from the writerdirector Anukalp Goswami having cracked an idea to build a franchise around Thatrsquos whatrsquos got everyone from Kapil cast and crew excited to rehit the floorWhatrsquos that big ideaThat therersquos a Hindu boy Kapil in love with a Muslim girl Neither family approves of their marriage They could elope I guessBut the Hindu boy converts to Islam and thatrsquos good enough for him to marry his Muslim girlfriend mdash whorsquos a runaway bride still WhyShe thought she was being married off to someone else The dad Vipin Sharma wanted to surprise her at the wedding WhatThe herorsquos family hits him on his head and marries him off to a Hindu girl the same night The same boy from Bhopal meets a Christian girl at a church wedding and marries her too because her groom ran awaySo now we have the crazy lead Mohan with two aliases Mehmood and Michael mdash switching between three performatively Muslim Christian Hindu households instead of even once wondering where his actual girlfriend has disappeared toWhyrsquos he entertaining three dumb behenjis in the bikini state of Goa dancing with Honey Singh honeymooning with them simultaneouslyYou might think Irsquom giving away the entire filmrsquos plot No All of this as setup occurs within the first 2040 minutes of the 140How do you entertain this Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 from hereon mdash kaikoWell not that hard to screw logic damn the idea if therersquos a Govindalike rsquo90s early 2000s style hero adlibbing his way through boisterous mannerisms smart oneliners and quick comebacksFor instance through Instagram reels I sense a sure resurgence of even the Priyadarshan comedy Garam Masala 2005 about Akshay Kumar rotating between three airhostess girlfriendsKKPK 2 is similarly centred on Kapil Sharma with Navjyot Singh Sidhu his laughmate from The Great Indian Kapil Show offering an odd sorta voicenarrationThe staterun bar Wind and Waves in Bhopal has been renamed Kaprsquos Cafeacute Mercifully the thoroughly replaceable leading ladies in the movie arenrsquot crossdressersCouple of issues Kapil feels quite whittled down as the chickmagnet hero for such a madcap comedy There are better gags on an average episode of his sketchcomedy showYes there are a few fine sermons on lsquosarv dharma sambhaavrsquo equal respect for all religions But thatrsquos in the Indian Constitution Would rather read it there Everybody should read the Constitution