I have always been amazed by the comedy of the characters in this serial. And when a film was made on it, I knew it would work except a little doubt whether they would make a mistake of putting songs into narrative. In the end, they didnt do such a mistake.


The narration of the film is done by two small kids of family who tell a story about their family. How much duffer and brainless their family is and keep presenting various funny incidents that includes meeting god, court scene, murder, marriage and some drama too.

There is just 1 song in the whole film, and that too makes a fun watch even though at first you would feel it wasnt needed, but the lyrics and funny picturisation makes up for it.

Both halves were equally good, cant single out one.

Performances wise ..

Supriya Pathak(Hansa) was at her best again .. specially her lines "hello hi .. khaana khaake jaana" and "haaye main toh thak gayi bhaisaaaab".

Rajeev Mehta(Praful) was amazing, though at starting scene I felt a overconfidence kinda of face but as the scene progressed the thought went away for full film. Ofcourse, my fav was "Culture hansaaaaaaaaa... culture" and then those funny explanations. And that signal to babuji he does.

Janmadas (Himanshu), I always liked him due to his accent that he brings and same the case here.. very good and well done specially because the film actually revolves on his character only.

Nimisha (Jayshree) was probably weak link of film.. didnt like her performance much whether its due to old character or its her not being able to mingle up that well with the rest characters.

Anang (babuji) was very good, the same confusing and irritated and yet himself doing funny things too.

Kirti was beautiful.. she looked like a perfect duffer kinda of girl for himanshu .. acting wise she was nice, hardly had too bigger role.

Parminder family cameos were great ..

Farah Khan was okay, little bit overdone though I loved that scene .. yeh daal nahi :d ..

Satish Shah was superb in a special appearance ..


Dialogues were good .. Direction was excellent, never tried to do too much. Screenplay was amazing, loved the way they told the entire story and included so many aspects of comedy scenes.

Overall, Khichdi has all the ingredients to make for a fun and timepass comedy film. Not sure if it makes for a repeated viewing or not but its totally worth a watch once especially if you are fond of Khichdi since T.V days.


Rating : 3.60 Out of 5