Khatta Meetha (2010 film)

Khatta Meetha
File:Khattameetha movie.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Priyadarshan
Produced by	Dhilin Mehta Twinkle Khanna
Written by	Story and Screenplay: Priyadarshan Dialogues: Jay Master
Based on	Vellanakalude Nadu by Sreenivasan
Starring	Akshay Kumar Trisha Urvashi Sharma Rajpal Yadav
Music by	Songs: Pritam Guest Composer: Shani Arshad Background Score: Ouseppachan
Cinematography	V. Manikandan
Edited by	Arun Kumar
Production company	Hari Om Entertainment Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Limited
Distributed by	Eros International Shemaroo Entertainment
Release date	23 July 2010 (2010-07-23) (India)
Running time	158 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹35 crore
Box office	₹62.79 crore

Khatta Meetha (transl. Sour and Sweet) is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language political satire comedy film written and directed by Priyadarshan and produced by Dhilin Mehta and Twinkle Khanna under Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Limited and Hari Om Entertainment. A remake of Priyadarshan's previous 1988 Malayalam film Vellanakalude Nadu (1988), scripted by Sreenivasan, the film stars Akshay Kumar and Trisha, while Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, Johnny Lever, Aruna Irani, Urvashi Sharma, Makarand Deshpande, Jaideep Ahlawat, Manoj Joshi, Milind Gunaji and Neeraj Vora feature in supporting roles. The story follows Sachin Tichkule, a struggling contractor whose failure in making peace with the corrupt bureaucracy in town as well as strained relation with his ex-girlfriend and his family leads to misadventures that deprive him of his closest relations. However, as he begins to mend his ways, justice comes knocking on his door.

Released on 23 July 2010, Khatta Meetha opened to mixed reviews and was a below-average grosser at the time of release. On television, however, it has acquired a great cult audience over the years and has been the subject of many viral memes.

Plot

Sachin Tichkule (Akshay Kumar) is a struggling Maharashtrian contractor who dreams big but has no chance of his dreams coming true as he doesn't have any money to bribe the bureaucracy. His family has lost faith in him, telling him to earn money through honest means. To make matters worse, the new Municipal Commissioner turns out to be his ex-girlfriend, Gehna Ganpule (Trisha), who now hates him due to his wayward ways. His brothers-in-law Trigun Fatak (Manoj Joshi), Suhas Vichare (Milind Gunaji) and his elder brother Harish Tichkule (Paritosh Sand) were all responsible for a bridge collapse resulting in many fatalities, and were helped by a politician named Sanjay Rana (Jaideep Ahlawat).

After putting the blame of the mishap on their driver Vishwas Rao, (Tinu Anand) they kill him later fearing he would reveal the truth. Meanwhile, Sanjay's lustful eyes fall on Sachin's sister Anjali (Urvashi Sharma). Sachin warns him to keep away from Anjali and slaps him. Meanwhile, a journalist named Azad Bhagat (Makrand Deshpande) wants justice as his family was killed in that accident. Anjali is betrothed to Sanjay, unbeknownst to Sachin. When he confronts his father Ramakant Tichkule (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) as to how the marriage is finalized to an evil man without his knowledge, he reprimands Sachin, saying he has no right to say anything as he has no money to marry his sister off. After losing touch with her, Sachin learns that Anjali has been attempting to contact him, and when he goes to their house one night, he is informed by the guard that they have gone out.

Shortly after Sachin ends up complicating matters with Gehna when she slits her wrist in a suicide attempt upon being arrested for a fraudulent set-up on his part and is hospitalized, Sachin breaks the truth about his disillusionment with his past principles and reconciles with Gehna as well as her elder brother Madhav. A few days later, he spots Azad escape from Sanjay's house. He then learns of Anjali's death because of an accident. While Ramakant is devastated, Sachin is suspicious and smells foul play in her death. He then meets Azad again at the Municipal office in Gehna's presence and learns of Azad's intentions from her about how he had acquired strong evidence which would help in putting the people involved in the bridge collapse behind bars. They both then agree to help each other to reveal the corruption behind the faulty construction of the bridge.

Sanjay comes to know of Azad's intentions and hires masked robbers, who kill Azad while he was on his way to court. Sachin takes the fatally injured Azad to the hospital for treatment. At the hospital, while Azad is dying in Sachin's arms, he reveals that while he was stealing the evidence, he saw Anjali being raped by Sanjay's friends and it's not clear whether she was murdered by her rapists while she escaped or she committed suicide. Attempting to make sure the evidence isn't revealed, Sanjay steals it after robbing Azad's house. Sachin spots Sanjay fleeing with the bag full of evidence and a fight ensues between Sanjay and Sachin. Sanjay is then killed after being run over by a truck and Sachin successfully retrieves the evidence.

Trigun, Harish and Suhas are arrested and the whole family, especially Sachin's sisters-in-law, begins belittling him, claiming he was jealous of them and unlike his successful brother Harish and brothers-in-law Trigun and Suhas, blaming him for tarnishing the family name. Sachin then argues back that their husbands are still alive behind bars where the wives can see them, while the people who have died to the bridge collapse are gone forever, and nothing can be done to bring them back, and he had to deal with the pain of losing Anjali the most, considering that his brothers-in-law had a hand in her death and were not reprimanded.

He agrees to leave, until Ramakant stops him and realizes his honesty and trustworthiness, rekindling their relationship, saying that he is proud of him. As he gets out of the house, Sachin spots Gehna, who tells him that she remained a spinster waiting for him, and confesses her love for Sachin and they decide to marry.

Cast

• Akshay Kumar as Sachin Tichkule
• Trisha as Gehna Ganpule, Municipal Commissioner
• Rajpal Yadav as Rangeela
• Makrand Deshpande as Azad Bhagat, a social worker who lost his family in the bridge collapse
• Asrani as Seth Karodimal
• Johnny Lever as Award Anshuman, Girghardan Ghat
• Milind Gunaji as Suhas Vichare, Sachin's brother-in-law
• Aruna Irani as Sheetaladevi, Sachin's mother
• Urvashi Sharma as Anjali Tichkule, Sachin's sister
• Manoj Joshi as Trigun Fatak, Sachin's brother-in-law
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Ramakant Tichkule, Sachin's father, who is a retired judge
• Tinu Anand as Vishwas Rao, driver
• Atul Parchure as Chintan
• Neeraj Vora as Madhav Ganpule, Gehna's elder brother
• Jaideep Ahlawat as Sanjay Rane
• Anupam Bhattacharya as Police Inspector
• Paritosh Sand as Harish Tichkule, Sachin's elder brother
• Anant Jog as Ramakant's brother-in-law
• Swatantra Bharat as Mr. Adiwarkar
• Preity Pundir as Sandhya, Madhav's wife
• Pooja Bhatt as Subhadra Tichkule, Harish's wife
• Esha as Akanksha Vichare, Suhas's wife and Sachin's elder sister
• Geetha Vijayan as Gayatri Fatak, Trigun's wife
• Ajay Shah as Ajay
• Kanchan Pagare as Jadia
• Sanjay Belose as Gangya
• Satish as Joshi
• Nitin Desai as Lawyer
• Paresh Brahmabhatt as Peon
• Prafull as Gopi
• Nagesh Bhosle as Inspection Officer
• Pradeep Vengurlekar as Vigilance Officer
• Anand Ingale as Politician
• Kainaat Arora as the item girl in song "Aila Re Aila"

Reception

Critical response

Upon release, the film received mixed reviews from critics. Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN rated the film 3 out of 5 saying, "Khatta Meetha" is a complete family film, which had its moments. Sukanya Verma of Rediff gave it 2/5 saying, "The story with its baggage of generic turns and contrived twists manages to laugh the audience at many points but all seems too familiar in making its even-now significant point. In addition, it seems a tad too long at its three hours running time. Noyon Jyoti Parasara of AOL rated the film 1.5/5 and stated, "In no way does 'Khatta Meetha' look like a film made by a director who has made 80 films till date. Certainly not from a director who got a National Award barely a year back for 'Kanchivaram'. This one is a rather amateur product which is best avoided." Blessy Chettiar of DNA gave it a rating of 2/5 and said, "Khatta Meetha is a hotchpotch of too much drama and very little comedy". Nikhat Kazmi of the Times of India gave it the highest rating of 3.5/5 saying, "Tune off a bit for the tedious middle and you could be in for some fun and frolic in Khatta Meetha".

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref
2011	6th Producers Guild Awards	Best Male Playback Singer	KK for "Sajde Kiye"	Nominated
2011	2011 Zee Cine Awards	Best Female Debut	Trisha Krishnan	Nominated
2011	56th Filmfare Awards	Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut	Trisha Krishnan	Nominated
2011	3rd Mirchi Music Awards	Best Item Song of the Year	"Aila Re Aila"	Nominated

Soundtrack

Khatta Meetha
Soundtrack album by Pritam
Released	2010
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	T-Series
Pritam chronology
No Problem (2010) Khatta Meetha (2010) Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010)

The film's soundtrack is composed by Pritam with lyrics penned by Irshad Kamil and Nitin Raikwar, with rapper U.R.L. performing the Marathi rap on "Nana Chi Taang".

The song "Sajde Kiye" is sung by Roop Kumar Rathod & Harshdeep Kaur in the film version.

Track listing

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Nana Chi Taang"	Kunal Ganjawala	5:01
2.	"Sajde Kiye"	KK, Sunidhi Chauhan & Shahid Mallya	5:07
3.	"Bullshit (Music by: Shani Arshad)"	Shehzad Roy	3:55
4.	"Aila Re Aila"	Daler Mehndi & Kalpana Patowary	4:22
5.	"Nana Chi Taang" (Remix)	Kunal Ganjawala	4:05
6.	"Sajde Kiye" (Remix)	KK, Harshdeep Kaur & Suzanne D'Mello	4:39
7.	"Aila Re Aila" (Remix)	Daler Mehndi & Kalpana Patowary	4:00
8.	"Nachde Re" (instrumental)	DJ Suketu

External links

• Khatta Meetha on IMDb
• Khatta Meetha at Rotten Tomatoes
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• Khatta Meetha at Bollywood Hungama