Khatta Meetha (2010)

Directed by

Priyadarshan

Genre

comedy film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 38m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 73 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A struggling contractor in a corrupt town deals with failed relationships and bureaucracy. After a series of misadventures, he starts to change his ways and eventually finds justice.

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What happens

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 1988 film Vellanakalude Nadu, originally scripted by Sreenivasan, the film starred Akshay Kumar in his sixth collaboration with Priyadarshan after Hera Pheri (2000), Garam Masala (2005), Bhagam Bhag (2006), Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007), and De Dana Dan (2009). Trisha (in her debut in Hindi cinema and the only Hindi film she has ever acted in), co-starred with Kumar, 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 relations 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 became an average grosser of 2010. However, over the years, after repeated telecast, Khatta Meetha has been rated as a cult classic, most notably due to the theme targeting corruption in public infrastructure works. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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