Total Déjà Vu: Is There Anything Original In Kalank?

Extra marital affair of Varun Dhawan And Alia Bhatt, a marriage of convenience between Aditya Roy Kapoor and Alia and a forbidden relationship of zamindaar Sanjay with tawaif Madhuri and sad wails of Arijit Singh thrown in for an emotional effect. Sets that look nothing extraordinary and dialogues that have been taken out of a grand old trunk of Bollywood. That’s all we can see in the recently-unleashed trailer of Karan Johar’s production Kalank. While Bollywood is known for copying from other industries, now directors and writers have lost all creativity altogether as they have just started lifting everything from other movies and even their own movies. Even the poster of the movie was trolled for being copied from the movie Om Jai Jagadish! Let’s have a look at all the copied stuff that Kalank has to offer!

Gadar Partition KJo Style

There are have several Indian movies centered on the partition era and Karan Johar’s magnum opus is another one. Will he be able to capture the pathos of the time or will it just be a flimsy attempt at including the struggle in the storyline?

Hindu-Muslim Love, Ameer-Gareeb Love

Haven’t we seen enough movies with Hindu-Muslim girl-boy struggles in love already? Apparently not, as Kalank is again trying to show the same problems. Also, the poor boy meets rich girl thing is not something that we should see in movies now. Puhleez!

Same Old Pairings

We are totally sick of watching Badrinath Varun and his Dulhaniya Alia Bhatt fall in love over and over again in different movies. On the other hand, there is nothing new about pairing Madhuri Dixit with Sanjay Dutt. The only faces who have not ever been paired in Bollywood are Sonakshi Sinha and Aditya Roy Kapoor but even they look so thanda in the movie.

DDLJ All Over Again

He did it with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – a climax with a train sequence that had the audiences on tenterhooks even though the happy ending was pretty predictable. Kalank’s DDLJ-esque train sequence has the same setting but from the trailer, it looks like the hero (Varun Dhawan) doesn’t get to be with his ladylove after all.

Mohabbatein All Over Again

Sanjay Dutt looks like another version of Mohabbatein’s Amitabh Bachchan. Don’t be surprised if Sanjay Dutta who is playing a Zamindaar-like figure warning about bura-anjaam to the poverty-struck hero Varun in a scene, starts mouthing Parampara, Pratishtha, Anushasan kind of dialogues in the movie.

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Maybe there will be a movie to give copycat competition to Thugs Of Hindostan after all. A scene featuring Varun Dhawan in an arena all set to fight looks straight out of Gladiator. The acrobatics in some of the shots also remind you of the scenes from Baahubali.

Khichdi Of Period Movie Setups

Devdas-meets-Jodha Akbar-meets-Bajirao Mastaani-meets-Prem Ratan Dhan Paayo-meets-Padmaavat-meets-Baahubali – that’s what the setup of Kalank looks like. From a nadi-kinaare boating scene to heroine making entry from larger-than-life doors and dhinchaknimbooda-style dance sequences with overhead shots, the look and feel of the movie is nothing new.

All in all, Kalank, written by Karan Johar and directed by Abhishek Varman promises the same old stuff but super-duper publicity of the movie that has been taking place just means that the movie will set the cash registers at the box office ringing from the day of its release itself.

Yawn, Bollywood, you have done it again. Whatta Kalank this is!