Cast and Crew:
Movie Title: Main Aur Mrs Khanna
Release Date:  October 16, 2009
Language: Hindi
Genre: Romance
Cast: Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sohail Khan, Deepika Padukone
Music: Sajid-Wajid
Written by: Prem Soni
Produced by: Sohail Khan, Ronnie Screwvala
Directed by: Prem Soni

The Movie:

It is a romantic story based on post-marital love affair. ‘Main’ is Sohail Khan and Salman Khan alternatively, and ‘Mrs Khanna’ is, of course, Kareena Kapoor.

The Story:

The NRI couple Samir (Salman Khan) and Raina (Kareena Kapoor) are married and settled in Melbourne, Australia. But their happiness after marriage doesn’t last longer. Because of quick marriage, Samir faces major hurdles in his career to some wrong work decisions that he had taken. Raina is working as a waitress to support their house.

Jobless Samir gets an opportunity to work in Singapore and make a new beginning. He takes Raina along with him but only to tell her at the airport that he has booked her ticket for India to go back to his parents and that he will come back to her once things fall in place in his career. After Samir catches his flight for Singapore, a dejected and sad, Raina keeps waiting at the airport lounge right till the final boarding announcement for her flight to India comes in. A bar tender at the cafeteria in the departure lounge,

Akash (Sohail Khan) sees her plight and offers help. He falls for her instantly but only to realize she is married. Raina gets confused whether to go to India or stay back in Australia. Just then, help comes in form of her friend Nina (Nauheed) who arranges for a job through a friend (Mahek Chahal) and Raina decides to stay back. Incidentally, Raina gets a job at the jewellery shop situated bang opposite of that of Akash’s café. Gradually friendship grows between the two. But what happens after Samir arrives back to take Raina along with him to Singapore forms the rest of the film.

Performances:

Salman looks smashing and shows he can play a serious romantic role extremely well too. Kareena looks WOW and acts superbly, especially in the emotional scenes. Sohail in what one may call one of his career best roles does complete justice to his character and rises much above his written role. Yash Tonk aids him perfectly. He is hilarious in the second half especially in his scenes with Salman. Nauheed and Mahek Chahal (last seen as the gangster’s moll in Wanted) add glam quotient and act ably. Bappi Lahiri is hilarious as the jewellery shop owner. Deepika Padukone in a special appearance has nothing much to do.

Thrown in is some situational comedy, courtesy Govinda, who plays troubled Salman’s friend. Priety Zinta, who has unabashedly swayed to a ‘Happening’ qawwali number, which does manage to have a gripping individuality of its own.

Sajid Wajid’s music is very good and has been well incorporated in the film. Also, the use of RD Burman’s song sung by Amit Kumar – Bade Achche Lagte Hai has been made smartly use of two times in the film.

Verdict:

Its not a bad film to waste your time and money but it could have been done even better. You can watch it once with your family in this festival season.

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