Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 Movie Review: Kapil Sharma’s secular comedy is sillily fun

Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 review:

Who would have expected it. At a time when aggressive men lord over the big screen, Kapil Sharma comes as a pleasant, non-problematic respite. His latest, Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2, a spiritual sequel of the 2015 infidelity-comedy of the same name, is as silly and ludicrous as you expect, but it is also surprisingly open-hearted. An old-school screwball sliding in the learnings of secularism and inclusivity. It follows the same pattern: one man has to juggle between three wives. But this time all of them come from different religions. It’s as if Priyadarshan’s Garam Masala (2005) took a leaf from the book of Manmohan Desai. A Dharam Masala.

Written and directed by: Anukalp Goswami

Cast: Kapil Sharma, Manjot Singh, Hira Warina, Parul Gulati, Tridha Choudhury, Ayesha Khan, Asrani, Vipin Sharma and Sushant Singh

Mohan Sharma (Kapil) wishes to marry his childhood sweetheart Saniya (Hira Warina) but he is a Hindu and she, a Muslim. Mohan even decides to convert because love, he says, is all about accepting. On the day of the nikaah, however, the woman behind the veil turns out to be someone else. A chain of events too preposterous to describe finds Mohan being hitched to two other women: A Hindu and a Christian. What follows is chaos and confusion.

When it works, Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 is laugh-out-loud funny. Kapil’s comebacks and the excuses he makes to get out of precarious situations oscillates between outlandish and enjoyable. Contrary to its prequel and how this genre of films tends to be, Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 saves itself from the cheap corniness of a sex-comedy. Its situational humour might be eye-rollingly convenient but it got some giggles out of me. The film is directed by Anukalp Goswami, who worked as a writer for many years on The Kapil Sharma Show, and follows the same brand of fast-landing farcicality but this time has been exorcised of the punching-down humour. It does away with laughing at somebody else’s expense. Taboo subjects like inter-religious marriages are taken in a lighter stride. I liked how Vipin Sharma’s character, a skull-cap wearing, beard-on-chin sporting Muslim is portrayed with an amicable comicality. In a scene, a group of eunuchs appear and those who have watched Kapil Sharma’s comedy would expect the worst. But the scene is actually handled in good stride, with cheery fun. You end up laughing with them rather than at them.

Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 is a no-agenda, no-brainer coming at a time when most films are becoming increasingly, aggressively opinionated. Its comedy has aman ki aasha sensibilities but it doesn’t try to drill its opinion. Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2 is harmless, hilarious fun. Sit back, laugh, relax. It’s just a movie.