2010 · comedy · drama
Khatta Meetha
Directed by Priyadarshan2h 35m2010
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.
Our read: Khatta Meetha (2010) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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