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Khandaani Shafakhana movie review: A good concept gone totally wasted

A girl’s maternal uncle in his legal will gives her a property where he used to run a sex clinic. But, the twist is that the girl has to run the clinic for six months to acquire the property. Well, she decides to do so. Now with such a great storyline, you would expect a film to be hilarious and that’s what even the trailer of Sonakshi Sinha starrer Khandaani Shafakhana promised. But unfortunately, the movie fails to reach our expectations.

The screenplay of the movie is quite boring. The film takes a lot of time to build up the base and when you think that soon there will be a scene that will crack you up, the movie falls flat. We aren’t saying that there no funny scenes in the film. Baby Bedi’s (Sonakshi) conversation scenes with the patients are funny, but they are just a couple of them and we have already seen them in the trailer.


The best scene in the film is when Sonakshi’s character Baby Bedi takes a cycle rickshaw and roams around in a market shouting that people should come to her sex clinic and openly talk about their sexual disorders. You really feel that this is actually the ‘breaking stereotype’ sequence, but then once again the movie moves forward and disappoints us.

Writer Gautam Mehra and director Shilpi Dasgupta clearly wanted to come up with a film that makes the audience think that talking about sex and sexual disorders is not a bad thing. But, the word ‘sex’ is just overused here and at some point, it starts looking forced. In the climax, suddenly, the movie turns its way towards how sex education is important. I am not saying that it’s not important, but it just suddenly comes up in the narrative from nowhere.

Coming to performances, Sonakshi Sinha is quite good in the film and impresses us. Varun Sharma clearly needs to do something else as he is getting repetitive and irritating. Badshah and Priyanshu Jora, both of them make a decent debut with the film. Nadira Babbar’s character seems to be of a mother from the 70s and her performance too isn’t impressive. Legendary actor Kulbhushan Kharbanda is good in his extended cameo.

When it comes to music, there are three songs that deserve a mention, Saans To Le Le, Udd Jaa and Koka (the end credits track).

Overall, Khandaani Shafakhana had the potential to be a good entertaining message-driven film, but it just turns out to be an average big-screen outing.

Ratings: 2.5/5

P.S. There’s a scene in the film where Nadira Babbar tells Sonakshi Sinha to see a picture of a guy who looks like Raj Babbar. And yes, this scene made us laugh…

Watch the trailer here…

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