The perils of polygamy

Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon
Hindi (U/A), Cast: Kapil Sharma, Manjari Fadnis, Simran Kaur Mundi, Sai Lokur, Elli Avram
Director: Abbas Mustan

When the end credits are about to roll, Kapil Sharma asks his friend: “Is this a tragedy or a comedy?” His buddy rolls his eyes.

We are clueless too.
On second thoughts, “catastrophe” would come close. The stand-up comedian’s big-screen debut is one bland show with no humour or charm whatsoever.

Kis Kisko Pyar Karoon tries to pass itself off as a comic take on one man’s predicament with three wives. And it ends up being just that — a polygamic mess.

As Kapil Sharma tries to run the show on the stale premise of 80s, his man Friday (Varun Sharma) invokes Newton and the laws of gravity to spark some laughs with an underwear falling off a balcony and a maid (Johnny Lever's daughter Jamie Lever) going to retrieve her master’s honour.

The wives — Manjari Fadnis, Simran Kaur Mundi and Sai Lokur — live on different floors of the same building, but are blissfully ignorant of their husband’s storey-hopping stunts as he divides time among the three. In fact, he is about to marry the fourth (Elli Avram, always on the dance floor).

Kapil Sharma uses just one expression to demonstrate his “patni” problem — a smirk.
Veterans Supriya Pathak and Sharat Saxena show up at the end to drill some sense into their son with a speech on monogamy. Alas, he loves it in multiples.
Staying loyal would have helped his viewers.