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By Joginder Tuteja, November 2, 2009 - 17:21 IST
MOVIE DETAILS
Cast: Jackie Shroff, Sohail Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Dia Mirza, Nauheed Cyrusi, Romeo
Director: Puneet Sira
Producer: Sohail Khan
Music: Dabboo Malik
Lyrics: S. R. Bharti, Kanwar Juneja, Panchhi Jalonvi, Salim Bijnauri
THE FILM
As the titles start rolling along with the feel of Agneepath and Ram Lakhan being conveyed through a song picturised on Jackie Shroff and junior Arbaaz/Sohail, one patiently starts waiting for some exciting drama to unfold every 10 minutes.
15 minutes pass by, 30 minutes go away and finally there is an interval point and still there isn't much momentum in the story. What one gets to is a happy family (Jackie Shroff and his sons Arbaaz Khan & Sohail Khan) getting torn apart due to arrival of Dilip Tahil (who continues to wear the same suits, mouth the same dialogues - 'Main Aapki Bhavnaaon Ko Samajhta Hoon' - and carries the same smirk not just throughout the film but also in the 20 odd films that he would have done in last decade or so).
One 'beta' is 'baap da laadla' and another becomes brainwashed into believing that Dilip Tahil is the only shining sun in his life. Hard to believe though that he would get carried away by the glorious offers being made by the rich industrialist in lieu of him breaking away from his family since a) he has studied law and is expected to know the tricks of the trade and b) he has a wife who is stable minded enough to keep her relationships intact with her 'sasural' even though her husband has turned his face away from his own father and brother.
So much so that even when his 'chota bhai' comes to pay a visit to him in his palatial mansion (that could possibly shame Bill Gates) after his 'chakki-peesing' stint in a jail, he blasts him before his lovely wife Dia Mirza could excuse herself, get a glass of water and return to see her husband making a hasty exit.
Not just that, there are quite a few cliched moments that really make one wonder that what had prompted the Khan brothers to invest in a script like this. Bad man not allowing the right phone calls to reach the brothers, father hiding his paralysis attack from his son, son not getting to know about his father's medical condition even though the entire 'pind' knows about it, village youngsters treating themselves as warlords and only the hero's family indulging itself in all the 'hero-giri'.
Ok, so in Bollywood, aakhir sab chalta hai. But then have some new masala in place. One is not asking for a message to be conveyed or an emotional tear jerker in the offering but at least get the entertainment quotient on!
Thankfully, there is some of it, though in bits and pieces, which at least allows Kisaan to chug along to a fair degree. The relationship between Jackie and especially Sohail is done well and there are always fireworks when the father summons his son to get into a bravura act. Sohail's 'jo bole papaji' act is interspersed well into the narrative and every time that it appears, it gets good reactions.
Also interesting is the scene where Arbaaz Khan asks his father for his share in the 'zameen-jaayadad'. Old world school of cinema, but still effective. The best scene in the film though is the one where Jackie orders the execution of 'goondas' in the dead of the night. The sequence that follows with Sohail Khan, Vishwajeet Pradhan and Sharat Saxena headed for the job is done well. This further leads to the day light killing of the last of the villains which is rustic, hard hitting and well shot.
Performances of each of the three male leads is good as well with Jackie Shroff leading from the front, Sohail shining in each of his scenes and Arbaaz too making a decent impact. He is let down with the script though which has so many holes that even he would have felt the pressure. Like the scene where he accidentally finds a secret file lying on the floor. Come on, now what are we really talking about here!
PACKAGING
DVD of Kisaan comes in a regular plastic case along with a free DVD. I got Apne.
DURATION
The film's duration is 103 minutes
SPECIAL FEATURES
None
TECHNICAL DETAILS
- 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
- Subtitles in English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 and Stereo
PRICE
Rs. 99/=
CONCLUSION
When Sohail Khan announced a movie that would take viewers back to the villages, one certainly expected that there would be something novel that would be in the offering. After all why would a producer/actor invest in a project that has its roots in the kind of subject that was explored 30-40 years back and still not bring in any new ingredients. Kisaan is the kind of movie which is not just outdated but also terribly predictable as well as filled with cliches.
 
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