So, here we are introducing our readers with CineTalks, a series where we will be talking about films. And we are commencing this series with the 1975 Hollywood classic ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ and it’s Bollywood remake ‘Kyon Ki’ starring Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor. So without wasting any time let’s begin.
Stories as great as Jack Nicholson’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, it is justifiable to opt for a remake so that the Hindi Cinema audience can also be aware of this epic story but when the intention is to just do business, then the result will be as awful as Priyadarshan’s Kyon Ki. The chemistry between all the patients at the asylum in the original film turned out to be a complete disaster in the Indian Version with unnecessary love angles and an overdramatized story.
A simple storyline goes as, “A man accused with several charges is institutionalized at a mental asylum.” So what are the charges? While in the original one, the protagonist is a petty criminal who is accused of rape and several other charges and in the remake, the protagonist is shown as a Romeo who accidentally kills his wife and becomes the prey of mental instability. The film did make changes that were quite unnecessary and which led to the destruction of the original story.
Let’s get to the most irritating part of this remake. On one side, there’s no romantic story in the original one, and on the other side, Kyon Ki is filled with only love stories. Salman Khan’s character in the mental asylum falls in love with Kareena Kapoor who is a doctor treating him and eventually the second love angle in the film begins leading to a terrible climax further.
In an asylum, patients are afraid of a doctor which is obvious as we get to know it properly throughout the original film and how this particular arc is described visually in both the movies is quite interesting and very opposite. In the original one, the patients just disperse into their respective wards as they see the doctor entering and this scene is shot without any dialogue whereas on the other side, in Kyon Ki Om Puri who plays the doctor is shown singing some unusual rap which goes as the imagination of Anand’s character.
The film was so terrible that few doctors filed a petition against the makers of the film in the court.
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