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Hindi Film Review
Khandani Shafakhana
By: Shaheen Raaj
“Khandaani Shafakhana Is An Interesting Film Based On A Taboo Topic Of Sex”
Banner: Sundial Productions & T – Series
Producers: Bhushan Kumar, Mahaveer Jain, Mrigdeep Singh Lamba, Divya Khosla Kumar & Krishan Kumar
Director: Shilpi Dasgupta
Star Cast: Badshah, Sonakshi Sinha, Varun Sharma, Anu Kapoor, Priyanshu Jora, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajesh Sharma, Nadira Babbar, Rajiv Gupta, Diana Penty, Suniel Shetty & above all Raveena Tandon
Music: Tanishk Bagchi, Rochak Kohli, Payal Dev, Abhishek Nailwal & Badshah
It has happened for the 1st ever time in the history of Bollywood that the trailer of Sonakshi Sinha, Varun Sharma & Badshah’s recently released movie Khandani Shafakhana was released just a day before the film’s release & created a buzz within no time. Those who had seen the trailer already know that the movie is based on the subject of sex & all the abnormalities attached to it.
Incidentally speaking movies like Vicky Donor & Shubh Mangal Savdhan also dealt with the very same subject. So Khandani Shafakhana has given more poised treatment to it & not to forget that the protagonist in this film is a female, namely Sonakshi Sinha.
The one liner of the film reveals that Khandaani Shafakhana is a film about a Punjabi girl named Babita Bedi alias Baby, enacted with a lot of spunk by none other than Sonakshi Sinha, who has to run a fertility clinic. She will have to face many obstacles of this society that is conservative towards women.
So with Khandaani Shafakhana Sonakshi Sinha has pledged to fill you in with some Sex education in a super subtle way. And she indeed proves to be a winner all the way. It is a bold step taken by Sonakshi Sinha, which no other Bollywood actress has done so far, but certainly not the 1st ever risky character enacted with élan by her. This is also one of her bold roles enacted by her. Earlier on Sonakshi Sinha had done a film titled Akira, where she stood strong as a solo lead with a very different theme. Then with Ittefaq, she showed the dark side of her acting. And at the same time, in movies like the “Dabangg” franchise, she allowed her beauty to settle in the most subtle way.
Apart from the fact that this is her 1st ever female centric film dealing with the subject of sex, what interests us more is the unexpected combination of the main leads. While Sonakshi Sinha enacts a docile albeit a middle class Bedi girl who’s trying to manage her uncle’s old pharmacy house. On the other hand Varun Sharma tickles the funny bones with his own brand of humor as an innocent “virgin” boy. Moreover, Badshah making his 1st ever Bollywood debut with the movie simply adds another feather in his hat.
Tail Piece: On the whole a film like Khandaani Shafakhana will certainly be appreciated more by the single theater audience than the so called intelligentsia audience belonging to the multiplex class.
At the box office turnstiles the film will slowly generate a good business at the cash counters. Period!!
