Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamana is supposed to be based on the hit English series ‘Sex and the City’ or closer back home the female version of ‘Dil Chatha Hai’. Unfortunately this film does not even come close to either of these two flicks which were super hits. The writer has attempted to make a chick flick for the Indian masses but unfortunately though the idea is impressive, the final outcome is a total disappointment. Firstly the promotion for this film was extremely poor, moreover even from the few promos that were aired the film looked far from exciting. Secondly time and again the release of the film was delayed and finally the film looked more like a comeback vehicle for over the hill and out of work actresses. The film is based on the sole aspect of these four ladies who bond at a salon and try to find a suitable suitor for their single friend. The film’s first half has plenty of mindless illogical comedy and the second half actually ventures into totally unconvincing emotional drama. Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamana is a film that is extremely disappointing and a total washout.
Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamana has been written and directed by Amar Butala and stars Rekha as Mayuri, Mahima Choudhary as Anjali, Vasundhara Das as Natasha, Kim Sharma as Kanika and Ashmit Patel as Amar. The film belongs to the comedy genre.
Mayuri, Anjali, Natasha and Kanika enjoy each others company and bond with each other often over facials, manicures, pedicures at their salon. The four girls are completely different from each other, lead different lifestyles and even belong to different age groups. Nonetheless they enjoy each others company along with glasses of champagne. Mayuri, Natasha and Kanika are married and pretend to enjoy their respective lives but they secretly admire the footloose and fancy free Anjali who is the only one in the group who in not yet married. Anjali has played a bet with her friends that she won’t marry till she turns 25, so now the rest of her three friends’ sole aim is to get her married before she turns 25 thus winning the bet.
However each of the girls now decide that they will find a suitor for Anjali without letting her know and there is a whirl of comedy when the girls actually find their candidates for Anjali. Meanwhile Anjali too unaware of her friends’ resolution falls for Amar. Now Anjali is being courted by four different men, but all this takes a dramatic turn when Anjali learns of the bet that her three friends have made behind her back. There is a showdown between the four friends and many other skeletons from the closet come out and each woman is forced to confront and deal with her own personal issues.
Direction by Amar Butala is totally amateurish and the narrative, script and execution are handled quite poorly. The script itself is lackluster with several loopholes. The comedy too seems over the top often and the emotional drama has been handled in an extremely shoddy manner. The execution of the film often looks sleazy and tries too hard to catch the viewer’s interest but does not manage to. The plot borders on illogical and irrational circumstances. The climax too is a downpour and seems forced and fake. Finally it is the performances that take the film even lower.
A few comic sequences evoke laughter in spite of them being illogical, like the scenes where each lady searches a suitable partner actually coming up with even more weird candidates. The music is average enough but the lack of publicity even for the music does not give it much scope. The music is accompanied by energetic dance performances and the romantic numbers are decent enough.
Cinematography is loud and unpolished. Dialogues are amateur and silly at times. Each of the ladies suffers from over the top and loud dressing. They look and behave garish. Mahima Choudhary’s dress style seems to keep displaying her well endowed bosom too many times, Rekha’s red lips and dark make-up makes her almost scary looking, Vasundhara Das needs to go on a diet and Kim Sharma’s clothing couldn’t get any tighter. As for acting, there is hardly any of it by the ladies, Rekha’s acting is crass and often she goes over the top in both the comic and emotional sequences. Mahima who at one time gave decent performances seems to be getting rusty and does a fairly poor job, Kim Sharma needs to learn acting and Vasundhara Das is mechanical. Ashmit Patel hardly has any scope and even then manages to botch up his performance. The rest of the cast seem like misfits in the film.
Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamana has one of the weakest scripts, a screenplay which is lackluster and performances that are excruciatingly unbearable. At the box-office there’s no chance for this film. A film that is below satisfactory.
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| Reviewed By: Rachel Fernandes |
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