Mr and Mrs Khanna (Salman and Kareena) are forced to go their separate ways when financial insecurity strikes their marriage. Will the temporary
Matrimonial discord does make for some high drama on screen. But only when there is a plausible reason behind the banter and break-up. Main aurr Mrs Khanna seems to fall short in this department since Mr and Mrs Khanna (Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor) squabble and separate for no reason at all. Seriously, is financial insecurity and joblessness reason enough to go your different ways, despite the fact that you are desperately in love? Also, why would an unemployed husband force his employed wife to pack her bags and return to her sasural, while he goes job hunting in distant shores?
Yet, that's exactly what Salman does. Failing to find re-employment in Melbourne after a financial goof-up, he tells his much-in-love waitress wife, Kareena, to go back to Dalhousie, while he flies off to Singapore in search of rozi-roti. Naturally, Kareena doesn't comply. She sheds a silent tear and stays back in Melbourne after a bunch of newfound friends help her find a new job and a work permit too. All she has to do is pretend to marry the friendly bartender (Sohail Khan) who whiles away his time befriending pretty belles at the airport. The bartender of course falls in love with Mrs Khanna, even though she makes it clear where her loyalties lie: solely with her long-distance pati, Salman who must return someday. Return, he does, only to find his devoted wife talking a bit too much about the bartender and his benevolent ways. Jealous, did we say?
Not really. For, Main aurr Mrs Khanna seems to have no passion at all. Neither love, nor anger, nor pain, nor envy. In an attempt to create a low key drama, debutant director, Prem Soni divests his film of all energy. Truly, this must be Kareena's most thanda performance which fails to strike a single chord. So unlike the feisty actor! Salman too seems to have slipped into somnolent mode, creating a laid-back Mr Khanna who fails to convey the frustrations of a jobless husband. And so infectious is the lethargy, it even manages to curb a usually effervescent Sohail Khan who prefers to play it over the top in most of his cameos. Here, you hardly can make out whether he is heartbroken, happy or couldn't care less.
Yet, that's exactly what Salman does. Failing to find re-employment in Melbourne after a financial goof-up, he tells his much-in-love waitress wife, Kareena, to go back to Dalhousie, while he flies off to Singapore in search of rozi-roti. Naturally, Kareena doesn't comply. She sheds a silent tear and stays back in Melbourne after a bunch of newfound friends help her find a new job and a work permit too. All she has to do is pretend to marry the friendly bartender (Sohail Khan) who whiles away his time befriending pretty belles at the airport. The bartender of course falls in love with Mrs Khanna, even though she makes it clear where her loyalties lie: solely with her long-distance pati, Salman who must return someday. Return, he does, only to find his devoted wife talking a bit too much about the bartender and his benevolent ways. Jealous, did we say?
Not really. For, Main aurr Mrs Khanna seems to have no passion at all. Neither love, nor anger, nor pain, nor envy. In an attempt to create a low key drama, debutant director, Prem Soni divests his film of all energy. Truly, this must be Kareena's most thanda performance which fails to strike a single chord. So unlike the feisty actor! Salman too seems to have slipped into somnolent mode, creating a laid-back Mr Khanna who fails to convey the frustrations of a jobless husband. And so infectious is the lethargy, it even manages to curb a usually effervescent Sohail Khan who prefers to play it over the top in most of his cameos. Here, you hardly can make out whether he is heartbroken, happy or couldn't care less.
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