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Kitne Door Kitne Paas (Romance Movie ,2002)  Starring
Director : Mehul Kumar |
Synopsis
KDKP starts in the US where Fardeen Khan and Amrita Arora live with their families. Both come from traditional families and their
parents choose their respective spouses in India. Just before they come to India to marry, they accidentally meet at a mall where they
end up having a small argument.
They end up traveling together on the same flight from US to New Delhi from where they have to head to Gujarat, where he is supposed
to get married to Sonali Kulkarni, while Amrita is all set to take tie the knot with Ayub Khan. But on reaching Delhi, they lose their
money and are in a tight spot. They don’t know how to get to their destination and finally Fardeen decides that they board a bus for
Gujarat together.
But as luck has it, the bus they board is reserved for married couples exclusively (very strange) so they both have no choice but to
pretend to be a married couple. This is where both start getting close to each other and realize that they love each other.
Then follows the usual Bollywood masala.
Kitne Door Kitne Paas is directed and produced by Mehul Kumar. The film stars Fardeen Khan, Amrita Arora, Paresh Rawal, Satish Shah,
Govind Namdev, Ketaki Dave, and Shehzaad Khan.
It has music by Sanjeev Darshan and lyrics by Anand Bakshi. The film is slated for release in mid-January 2002.
Review
Mehul Kumar, film’s director has relied too much on coincidence to build chemistry between his two lead characters.
Jatin(Fardeen) and Karishma(Amrita) keep running into each other for the major part of the movie. They meet at the airport, on way
from US to India, and both of them are going back to marry the girl or boy of their parents’ choice.
Jatin is going to tie knot with a simple Indian girl Jaya (Sonali Kulkarni) while Karishma too has almost consented to marry Nimesh (Ayub
Khan).
After coming to India they both take the same taxi and are headed for the same destination Vijayanagar in Gujarat. The film’s plot is
just too archetypal and banal that one can almost predict the next scene. That is – they take a bus, which, for some strange reasons,
is meant for married couples only. So, Jatin and Karishma have to pretend to be husband and wife. It is exactly here that the
chemistry between them changes from aversion to infatuation and later into love.
Fardeen Khan’s emotive range in playing a lover boy seems to be quite a narrow. Be it “Jungle”, “Pyar Tune Kya Kiya” or “Kitne Door..”
it is the same man before the camera every time. As an actor he has yet to learn to convey the subtle nuances that are peculiar to
every different character. He simply picks up different demeanors from his limited repertory and mouths his dialogues without actually
feeling what he says.
As for Amrita, she is chirpy and a-little-snooty. She easily slips into the role of a US-bred girl who has yet not lost her Indian
roots. But she still has to go far to get a firm foothold in Bollywood.
On the margins Sonali Kulkarni is wasted in a role that not only has skimpy footage but is also without any potential. In a similar
role Ayub Khan too fails to make any impression, whatsoever. Besides this, comic attempts from Tiku Talsania and Ketaki Dave hardly
invokes any laughter.