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Out of all the failures in Bollywood, I am most disappointed with Sonakshi. Regardless of the fact that she is a product of Nepotism, she doesn't even try. She is talented but completely wastes it doing crap like this.

On the other hand, Shraddha who maybe isn't the best actress actually tries and chooses versatile films. I rate that about Shraddha.

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Movie Review: Khandaani ShafakhanaBollywood Movies by Devesh Sharma | Aug 1, 2019

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Cast & CrewSonakshi Sinha, Varun Sharma, Annu Kapoor, Badshah, Priyanshu Jora, Kulbhushan Kharbanda

KHANDAANI SHAFAKHANA

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Devesh Sharma, Aug 1, 2019 10:18 PM IST

Rating: 3.0 / 5

Baby Bedi (Sonakshi Sinha) is a medical representative living in Hoshiarpur trying to make ends meet. She"s hit a slacker brother (Varun Sharma) and a widowed mother (Nadira Babbar) to take care of. They had borrowed money from a relative for her sister"s wedding and the man wants the money back. She gets a chance to make things right when her maternal uncle (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) passes away leaving his sex clinic, situated in a prime location to her. She can sell the property but only after running the clinic successfully for six months. The problem is that everyone -- from her mother to her relatives to the other shopkeepers in the market are dead against her and so are the Unani medicine practitioners. How she tries to do the right thing and discovers herself in the process forms the crux of the film.

Khandaani Shafakhana gets the production design down pat. The market, the houses, the vehicles all look like they belong to small-town India, as do the clothes. The language, the diction, the idioms, the customs people follow feels right to. The small-town mindset feels familiar as well, as are the dynamics of the dysfunctional family. Full marks to director Shilpi Dasgupta for getting such details right. But she has faltered in a couple of places well. For instance, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, who is supposed to be Sonakshi"s maternal uncle, looks old enough to be her grandfather. His age kind of remains the same through a 20 year period, as does the age of his rival colleagues.

Where the film stumbles majorly is in the screenplay and editing. There is a lack of coherency in both the departments that kind of drags the film down. The film has been made with its heart in the right place. It does give forward the message that it"s important to talk about sex. But it bats for sex education in a hammer-handed manner, thereby diluting it"s noble intentions. Thankfully, there is no cheap theatrics in this sex comedy. The sex is definitely missing and the comedy too doesn"t engage us as much as it should have.

In a bold move, Baadshah plays a rockstar having erectile dysfunction and comes clean near the end to give credence to his friend"s credibility as a hakim. The singer is a natural and is effective in scenes where he"s pretending to be a snobby star. Newcomer Priyanshu Jora has a charming screen presence and is effective in his role of a sympathetic love interest. Annu Kapoor is in his Dr Chaddha -- from Vicky Donor -- for some reason. Varun Sharma has played a slacker in so many films that he can probably do it in his sleep now. Veteran Kulbhushan Kharbanda gives a certain gravitas to the proceedings as the wise Dumbledore-ish uncle. Nadira Babbar, seen after ages in a film, is the very picture of a down-on-her-luck Punjabi matriarch. Sonakshi Sinha, who seems to have lost oodles of weight, has given her all to the film. She does come across as a sassy middle-class working girl struggling to better her life. Her tenacity towards her role is admirable and the lack of proper framework doesn"t do her justice...

(Random question, why does KRK dislike Sonakshi so much? 😲)

Movie Review: Sonakshi Sinha is the winner in slow comedy on sex

Khandaani Shafakhana starring Sonakshi Sinha, Varun Sharma, Badshah and Annu Kapoor in lead roles is directed by Shilpi Dasgupta .The film is excruciatingly slow and has only the performance of its actors as saving grace. Watch it only if you are a Sonakshi Sinha fan.

• • Vibha Maru
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• August 2, 2019
• UPDATED: August 2, 2019 12:29 IST

Sonakshi Sinha, Badshah, Varun Sharma and Annu Kapoor played the lead characters in the film.

Movie Name:Khandaani Shafakhana

Cast:Sonakshi Sinha, Varun Sharma

Director:Shilpi Dasgupta

A little girl, five-six years old, tells a man, "Uncle six nahi, theek se likho SEX." She then loudly utters the taboo word - SEX -in her innocent voice. Her audaciousness is met by an angry mother, who blasts her and takes her away from her Mamaji, a hakim who treats sex-related diseases.

After years, that little girl, who is now a grown woman and, mind it, the sole breadwinner of her house, ends up in the shoes of her late Mamaji and has been thrust upon the task to run his sex clinic. She soon realises that though years have passed, the squirmy reaction of people to the word 'sex' remains intact. But, like a true Bollywood heroine, she takes it upon herself to change the world and start a conversation about this hush-hush subject.

Like her character in the film, Sonakshi Sinha as Babita or Baby Bedi shoulders the 2-hour-16-minute-long Khandaani Shafakhana. She is passionate and focused in getting her family out of the financial crisis with the help of the sex clinic, without caring much about the mudslinging it comes with. Sonakshi's expressions are bang on in the film, which also proves that she has come a long way as an actor since her debut in 2010.

But there is only so much a good actor can do when you get a loosely handled, lazily written script. Apart from a few good lines, the dialogues of Khandaani Shafakhana are mediocre. Writer Gautam Mehra takes up cudgels to make people comfortable with conversation on sex, but somewhere he himself doesn't seem at ease with it.

For most part of the film, the characters just beat around the bush, which involves everything - from uneasy expressions, nose-flares to khandan-ka-naam-dooba-dia talks - but they don't get to the TALK till you reach the late second half of the film.

Khandaani Shafakhana is excruciatingly slow. It takes too much time to build the subject; so much that by the time the characters finally begin talking about it, you have lost all interest in it. The first half of the film is what the audience will have to brave through to get to the comparatively interesting second half. And that's not saying a lot. Don't expect any cliffhangers or surprises; the film is as predictable as can be.

However, the saving grace of Khandaani Shafakhana is its actors. Director Shilpi Dasgupta provides Sonakshi with a meaty role, which allows her to deliver. Sona, along with her lazy, hopeless brother Bhooshit Bedi, played by Varun Sharma, keep the film afloat.

Varun manages to snatch some laughs from the audience, delivering some good jokes in an otherwise bland film. But for an actor who displayed impeccable comic timing in films like Fukrey and Dilwale, Varun isn't utilised much in Khandaani Shafakhana. His limited screen time leaves you asking for more.

Badshah plays the role of a popular rapper, Gabru Ghaatak in the film, pretty similar to his real-life persona. Donning swanky glares, gold chains and bright outfits, it gets difficult to separate Badshah the rapper from his character. Kulbhushan Kharbanda plays Baby's Mamaji, who mostly appears in the flashback scenes.

Apart from these actors, the makers have roped in Annu Kapoor to play the role of a lawyer who has the charge of handing over Mamaji's property, his sex clinic, to Baby. In the process, he tries to explain to her the importance of the sex clinic and how rich the heirloom is. Annu's role in the film isn't much different from that of Dr Chaddha in Vicky Donor.

And though the makers of Khandaani Shafakhana fail to recreate the magic that Shoojit Sircar's Vicky Donor did, Annu remains true to his character and for brief moments, makes you smile.

Khandaani Shafakhana is another example that proves that Bollywood is thinking out of the box. But the subject alone isn't enough, the key is to present it in an engaging manner, with a dose of entertainment. The film tries to do so, but doesn't quite make the cut.

Khandaani Shafakhana is at best a one-time watch and is a treat for only, and only, Sonakshi Sinha fans.

2 stars out of 5 for Khandaani Shafakhana.

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film is getting trashed by all

is it really that bad