Bollywood New Movie ‘Ki and Ka’ has Pigeonholes Galore

In the aboriginal exchanges amid the capital leads of R. Balki’s “Ki and Ka”, Kabir (Arjun Kapoor) tells Kia (Kareena Kapoor) that she
is a apprentice who has no animosity or emotions. She in about-face accuses him of getting a “corporate psychopath” who is adjoin all those authoritative a career for themselves. The curve complete antic – to accept every aggressive being is a apprentice and that those who don’t harbour accumulated ambitions are psychopaths.

But R. Balki is acutely aggressive by George Clooney’s memorable band in “Up in the Air”, area he tells an addled intern, “I stereotype. It’s faster.” And so, in the absorption of speed, Balki fills “Ki and Ka” with added stereotypes than you can count. In the guise of a blur about a accelerating man who stays home while his wife lives the accumulated dream, we get a cine that makes across-the-board generalizations about both genders.

The women in this blur are either like Kia and her mother (Swaroop Sampat), who accept a acceptable career but cannot accomplish themselves a appropriate breakfast; or they are absolute housewives who run a abode but are appealing amateur in added affairs and absorb all their chargeless time in backing parties and traveling to the cine theatre with added housewives.

The men are no different. They are all adamant accumulated hacks who will stop at annihilation to get that CEO column and wouldn’t condescend to go grocery arcade with their wives. Which is why Balki’s hero, Kabir, is such a novelty. He is a business academy acknowledgment and beneficiary to a absolute acreage empire, but his alone appetite is to be a calm husband. He marries Kia, who lives with her social-worker mother (FabIndia sarees and breakable jewellery, because that’s how all NGO wallahs dress) and thinks alliance is a albatross to a woman’s career.

Balki cannot assume to yield the ad film-maker out of him – aggregate in this blur is about acute curve and there are no absolute artifice points, just accessory blips in Ka and Ki’s activity which acquiesce them to approach to others about gender adequation and reflect on the role of men and women in the world.

Arjun Kapoor’s smug, brain expressions mirror the arrogant accent of the film. Thankfully for the viewer, Kareena Kapoor is in her element, switching apparatus amid ball and affect calmly abundant for you to acknowledge how abundant accustomed aptitude she has as an actor.

There is so abundant to be said about alteration roles in today’s India, and films would do able-bodied to reflect on this abundant churn. But R. Balki, like a lot of of Bollywood, would rather not attending alfresco and learn. Why accomplish a absolute blur about absolute humans if you can stereotype. It is faster.