Kakuda fails to live up to Munjya Cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Sonakshi Sinha, Saqib Saleem, Asif Khan, Rajendra Gupta, Neelu Kohli, Yogendra T...
Kakuda fails to live up to Munjya
Cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Sonakshi Sinha,
Saqib Saleem, Asif Khan, Rajendra Gupta, Neelu Kohli, Yogendra Tikku, late
Sameer Khakhar
Rating:2.5*
OTT: ZEE5
Aditya Sarpotdar who just recently entertained us with Munjya now comes up with Kakudam a direct to OTT release. He tries to infuse the same kind of humour-horror combo but this time he doesn’t get the desired result that he did with Munjya despite having a good star cast. The climax falls flat thus making what could have been a superb entertainer become a slightly dull proposition. But still, there are some interesting moments like the backstory of Kakuda which keeps the viewers hooked.
It is a modern-day Savitri-Satyavan where the wife tries to rescue her husband from Kakuda, a midget ghost who haunts their village Rataudi at 7.15 pm every Tuesday. The villagers have two doors- one normal size and one small- the small ones have to be kept open every Tuesday at 7.15pm for Kakuda to enter failing which he would kick the owner who develops a hump on his back and dies after 13 days. Indu/ Indira (a rocking Sonakshi Sinha) is to get married to Sunny (a fair Saqib Saleem) who stays in Rataudi but against the wishes of both her and his parents. The day they get married, Sunny fails to reach home on time and leave the door open for Kakuda. He is attacked by Kakuda and the villagers prepare for Sunny's death. But Indu doesn’t want to be a widow and bumps into a mysterious ‘ghost hunter’ Victor Jacobs (an amusing & interesting Riteish Deshmukh) who promises to help her and the villagers to get rid of the menace of Kakuda.
Apart from the lead actors, Asif Khan as Kilbis, Sunny's best friend is excellent. Rajendra Gupta as Indu’s father who wants only English knowing groom is quite funny. It is also the last appearance of Sameer Khakhar (late), owner of the circus, who tells the backstory of Kakuda but is unfortunately wasted in a cameo.
There is an interesting twist in the character of Sonakshi which keeps you hooked.
The film is fairly engaging, but the proper masala is missing which leaves the audience in the lurch, neither here nor there.
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