“Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum” (How Super Kool Are We), starring Riteish Deshmukh, Tusshar Kapoor, Sarah Jane-Dias and Neha Sharma, is the sequel to the 2005 movie ”Kya Kool Hain Hum.”
Directed by Sachin Yardi, the movie is a sex comedy that revolves around the life of two friends Adi (Tusshar Kapoor) and Sid (Riteish Deshmukh). Their quest for success and girls takes the duo to Goa where they run into trouble.
As Mayank Shekhar wrote in his review in the newspaper Daily Bhaskar, “The producers had already advertised this film in posters as being bakwaas [rubbish].”
But even with those low expectations, the movie got very mixed reviews.
Here is a roundup of what critics had to say about the film:
In one of the kinder reviews, Taran Adarsh of movie portal Bollywood Hungama described the movie as “one big joyride from commencement to conclusion.”
“Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum is wicked and caters to young adults,” he wrote.
But he noted that there was no “path breaking story” and that director Sachin Yardi appears to yearn “for the audience’s laughter at any price.” He criticized the movie because it “droops faintly in the middle” but applauded the “unpredictably sprightly” climax.
Mr. Adarsh found the cinematography “lively,” the dialogue “witty to the core” and the music “energetic and youthful.” He gave the movie three-and-a-half stars out of five.
Not everyone found the movie as super cool as Mr. Adarsh though.
News channel NDTV's Saibal Chatterjee called it “as scintillating as the drone of a dying bumble-bee.”
The movie “employs an endless flurry of vulgar double-entendres and vapid innuendos in its desperate quest for laughs and even bigger bucks,” he wrote.
He wasn’t impressed with either the actors or the writing.
“Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum strives very hard indeed to be a worthy adult comedy, a poor Indian country cousin of American Pie, but all it manages to be is a juvenile and clunky ride,” he wrote.
Branding it “crude, crass and completely clueless,” Mr. Chatterjee gave the movie only one star out of five.
In a review published in the Mumbai-based paper Daily News and Analysis,Aniruddha Guha wrote that the movie “revels in its ability to present one stereotype after another in a long orgy of sex jokes, private parts’ references and general stupidity.”
“Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum is like a party that starts to get boring in the first hour, one you keep looking for ways to get out of. And if you do stay till the end, a headache-inducing hangover is a certainty,” he added.
He said that he was willing to give the movie the “benefit of the doubt” and noted that it is “meant to be guilty pleasure all along, and being overtly crass and naughty comes with the package.” But he found that the too-frequent gags and the incessant punning was “so labored, it puts you off after a while.”
He praised Mr. Deshmukh’s portrayal of a sex-starved maniac but wasn’t impressed with Mr. Kapoor, who also appeared in the 2005 prequel. “Tusshar couldn’t act then. Seven years later, nothing’s changed,” he wrote.
Mr. Guha found that Ms. Jane-Dias and Ms. Sharma did a “decent job,” but wondered why Chunkey Pandey and Anupam Kher were in the film.
Perhaps inspired by the movie, The Times of India’s Madhureeta Mukherjeewrote a pun-filled review in which she said the film was ideal “for teens who get a boner out of bad jokes, but it may get a rise out of some adults too.”
She labeled Mr. Kapoor a “master of his domain” and praised Mr. Deshmukh for his “canny knack for comedy.”
For Ms. Mukherjee, there were “scenes that vibrate with humor” but she found the movie a “tad long” and the story line “bleak.”
“If you have a whacked out sense of humor, and are willing to leave your brains behind, go laugh your guts out,” she advised
Edited By Cen Fox Post Team
