Cast – Akshay Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Milind Gunaji, Johny Lever, Rajpal Yadav, Jaideep Ahlawat and Makrand Deshpande.
Directed by Priyadarshan
Khatta Meetha Critics Rating – 3.8/10 (It’s a Flop!)
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Khatta Meetha Movie Review by Movie Critics
Taran Adarsh (BollywoodHungama.com) 1.5/5
Khatta Meetha is a major letdown from the accomplished director. It’s not a full-blown comedy. It’s not a full-scale satire either. Hugely disappointing!
Nikhat Kazmi (The Times of India) 3/5
The film is too long and has too much of high-pitched drama, leaving room for too little of the laughter circus.
Rajeev Masand (CNN-IBN) 1/5
Khatta Meetha; this is cinema at its most tasteless.
Kaveree Bamzai (India Today) 1/5
At over two hours, it is silly, noisy, and repetitive. It’s also weirdly misogynistic
Sukanya Verma (Rediff) 2/5
The story with its baggage of generic turns and contrived twists seems all too familiar in making its even-now significant point
Shubhra Gupta (Indian Express) 2/5
It is criminally long, burdened with flat comedy tracks as faulty as Sachin Tichkule’s roads
Gaurav Malani (IndiaTimes) 1.5/5
Khatta Meetha lacks wit and sarcasm and by no means can be termed as a political satire
K.K Rai (Stardust) 2/5
Despite of the deadly combination of Akshay Kumar and Priyadarshan in the making of ‘Khatta Meetha’, it fails to create the magic of their earlier outings like ‘Hera Pheri’, A below average flick.
Khalid Mohamed (PassionForCinema.com) 2/5
Priyadarshan’s misleadingly titled Khatta Meetha – believed to be adapted from a vintage Malayalam chuckleberry fest – could well be considered by the Guinness Book of Records for the LOUDEST movie ever made in heaven or earth. Forget mirth, this self-styled comedy pumps up the volume so high that the cacophony could possibly be heard in Patagonia and Perth. Quick suggestion: if you’re venturing out to this kerfuffle, do carry cotton buds. Or leave your ears at home.
Mayank Shekhar (Hindustan Times) 1/5
The jokes, you can tell, have pretty much dried up. No amount of slapstick will wet this pool.
Khatta Meetha-Priyadrshan is misleading the title katta meetha,its neither katti nor a meethi film.It seems like different episodes of Malgudi Days,put in together.Story happens in a town of Maharashtra,but film was shot on South Indian set and most of the characters either utter the lines in North or South Indian accent.Akshay Kumar plays for gallery in the name comedy.Good thing about the film is two fresh faces,Jaideep Ahlawat as the main villian and actress who plays Urvashi.Director should ve given some more lines to Jaideep to convey his dilemma especially in office scene where Tichkule slaps him.**