If the non-happening of anything substantial in the first half gives you a blow, the draught of dribs and drabs of juvenile comedy in the post-interval track will tear you to shreds. A wicked aunt (Mita Vasishth) separates twin sisters, Tina and Sweetie (Kajol) when they are born. One lives with her mother Archana (Rati Agnihotri Virwani) in Glasgow and the other, in Mumbai, with her bearded dad Raj (Rishi Kapoor). The two bump into each other in Glasgow, and decide to switch places so that each can meet the parent they don't know, with the eventual goal of reuniting their parents. With cliched sequences and formulaic characters standing in for real storytelling, 'Kuch Khatti' turns out to be a sinful waste of talent This is one of those movies that has difficulty sustaining any kind of comic or dramatic momentum, so the final half-hour, especially, turns into a real endurance contest. What could have been a frothy and buoyant fun-filled fandango is reduced to an exercise in drollery and tear-jerking emotions.

Chucking lavish helpings of 'dal' and 'palak paneer' on each other's hair, smashing another's face against pineapple cake, summoning a leggy hooker by the name of 'Savitri' and getting her to use Viagra to arouse a client, a purblind dotard getting turned on, and loads more of asinine stuff, seems to be the director's idea of laughter material. The script is loophole-ridden; anomalies unlimited. Sameer (Sunil) and Tina (or is it Sweetie?), thanks to a mere song-and-dance sequence on the road, manage to garner money for two air-tickets from Glasgow to London. Sweetie (or is it Tina?) takes her father to a rehabilitation center for alcoholics in Goa, but what that place does to reform him, except for some godforsaken aquatic message, is one big mystery. I'm still clueless about Sameer's background/vocation/occupation, except that he's meant to be around whenever the twin needs him. Moreover, the romance between the twin and him is half-baked and unconvincing. Anu Malik's music is a big let-down except for Pooja Batra's (the poor girl needs to find good roles!) spunky and seductive number, 'Bandh Kamare Mein'. For those in search of a silver lining to the cloud that is 'Kuch Khatti', look no further than Rati Agnihotri Virwani. Gorgeous and graceful, she steals every scene she's in, and is one reason you might like to suffer this assault of a movie. Rishi Kapoor's acting abilities have been tested only to the extent of interacting with whisky bottles. Touchwood, much of that youthful spark in Kajol is intact, but she needs to take a good look at her figure, clothes and hair in the mirror. Sunil Shetty is likeable in parts.

On the whole, it is just another dated example of the regularly drummed-up trying-to-be-family-friendly and creatively barren pabulum, which is more 'kadvi' than 'meethi'.

The review if from Sify Movies.