Kismat Konnection
Kismat Konnection is a 2008 Indian Hindi romantic drama film directed by Aziz Mirza who previously directed films including Yes Boss, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani and Chalte Chalte. The film stars Shahid Kapoor and Vidya Balan in the lead roles with Juhi Chawla in a guest appearance. Shah Rukh Khan is the narrator. Produced by Ramesh S Taurani under the banner of Tips Industries, Kismat Konnection was released on 18 July 2008. The Film was declared a "Hit" at the box office.
Kismat Konnection is loosely based on the Hollywood film, Just My Luck which stars Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine.
Plot
Raj Malhotra is an architect who hasn't made a great deal to prove his brilliance, which he thinks he has because he had been a great student in college and won many prizes during college time. He seems to be very unlucky for many times and his bad luck is always stopping him from gaining success. His college student Hiten Patel is now his colleague.One day he is supposed to have a meeting with a big company boss, whom he expect to sign a big deal with. His bad luck comes to him again: his alarm clock stops ticking one minute before it is supposed to alarm, making him having slept for 30 excessive minutes; the water supply in his house is interrupted when he is taking a morning bath after waking up late; his car can't start after he finally finishes his shower; he decides to take a taxi, but finds no money in his wallet; when he is withdrawing money from an ATM, the machine is not accepting his card; when he is carrying on, his car nearly hits Priya's, which however makes him miss a small accident that can have happened to him; and finally, he gets rejected by the boss.
In another try, Raj and Hiten meets Gill Patra's CEO Harry Gill and they expect to sign a big deal with him. To their surprise, Mr. Gill has just had a meeting Dev Kataria, whose proposal interests him a lot and whom happens to be colleague of Raj and Hiten. Mr. Gill is therefore not in mood of having meeting with Raj and Hiten, and excuses them to come at another day.
Again, when Raj is withdrawing money from an ATM, the machine is not accepting his card, where coincidentally Priya is waiting in queue. They meet and have a quarrel again, during which Priya throws Raj's name card away and it accidentally falls to the hand a business man who is eager for an architect. Raj gets the deal. The project is not big, and the contractee invites Raj and Hiten to the celebrating party of the project completion. After learning Mr. Gill will also attend the party, they agree.
However, Priya happens to meets Raj again, right in the party, during with Mr. Gill is playing billiards with his friend Sinha. With unintended help of Priya, Raj helps Mrs Gill with a critical shot, which impresses Mr. Gill and the latter agrees to meet him again to discuss with his proposal.
Cast
- Shahid Kapoor as Raj Malhotra
- Vidya Balan as Priya
- Juhi Chawla as Haseena Bano Jaan
- Om Puri as Sanjeev “Harry” Gill
- Boman Irani as Priya's waving friend/Rajiv Batra
- Karanvir Bohra as Dev Kataria
- Vishal Malhotra as Hiten Patel
- Himani Shivpuri as Mrs. Manpreet Gill
- Hyder Ali
- Shehnaz Anand as Aditi
- Amit Varma as Karan Behl
- Satyanand Gaitonde as Kabir
- Dimple Sharma as Rita
- Shah Rukh Khan as Narrator
Production
Critical reception
The film received an average rating of 3 out of 5 from the critics. "A simple romantic Kismat Konnection", "which could have been a good romantic comedy, but lack of good one liners, a bit lengthy second half, typical climax makes it fairly average." However Taran Adarsh gave the movie 3 out of 5 calling it a simple and sweet film. He also said the performances by Shahid and Vidya are done very neatly. Noyon Jyoti Parasara of AOL.in also rated it 3.5 out of 5 and said, "Overall, Kismat Konnection bears the stamp of typical Aziz Mirza film. It's not a great story or an extraordinary film. But it's a nice, cute and emotional movie."Box office
The film registered a very good opening at the box office. The film was released in more than 600 screens worldwide including US, UK, Australia and the Middle East. In the Middle East, the film did a business of. In the US, it collected by the second night of its release.Soundtrack
The music was composed by Pritam. Remix songs were mixed by DJ Suketu & Aks. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 10,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's fifteenth highest-selling.The "nanna na na " tune in the song "Aye pappi" has been lifted from the background music of a Thai film Fan Chan.| # | Song | Singer | Duration |
| 1 | "Move Your Body Now" | Shaan, Akriti Kakkar & Hard Kaur | 04:06 |
| 2 | "Soniye Ve" | Sonu Nigam & Sunidhi Chauhan | 04:06 |
| 3 | "Is This Love" | Mohit Chauhan & Shreya Ghoshal | 05:29 |
| 4 | "Aye Paapi Aye" | Neeraj Shridhar | 04:20 |
| 5 | "Bakhuda Tumhi Ho" | Atif Aslam & Alka Yagnik | 04:52 |
| 6 | "Bakhuda Tumhi Ho" - Remix | Atif Aslam & Alka Yagnik | 05:46 |
| 7 | "Aye Paapita Aye" - Remix | Neeraj Shridhar | 03:45 |
| 8 | "Move Your Body Now" - Remix | Shaan, Adeel Chaudhry, Suhail Kaul, Hard Kaur & Akriti Kakkar | 03:35 |
| 9 | "Kahin Na Lage Mann" - Remix | Mohit Chauhan & Shreya Ghoshal | 05:52 |
| 10 | "Soniye Ve" - Remix | Sonu Nigam & Sunidhi Chauhan | 03:58 |