Himesh Reshammiya is back with Karzzz and yet again as a Music Director, Singer and obviously the main protagonist. The movie directed by Satish Kaushik of Tere Naam fame also stars Urmila Matondkar, Shweta Kumar, Bakhtiyaar Irani, Danny Denzongpa, Dino Morea, Raj Babbar and many more!
Reincarnation movies have rarely failed in Bollywood. Right from the yesteryear Karz to Karan Arjun to the more recent Om Shanti Om.. all have struck gold at the box office. Can Himesh Reshammiya’s Karzz remake follow the same path?
Monty (Himesh Reshammiya) is a amazingly popular rockstar, with a fan following that most would dream of. One fine night at a party, Monty meets Tina. At first sight, both fall madly in love with each other. Tina though, leaves the party and returns to her hometown. Soon during one of his shows, he gets into a trance while playing those high notes. Visuals of a beautiful girl with her man, a temple, a palace and a plane crash flash in his mind… all of which leads to a collapse on stage.
Monty takes a break and goes away to Kenya where he finds Tina and also the Mansion! The rest of the tale is about how Monty rediscovers his identity from his previous life to take revenge on those who cruelly killed him.
Karzz Review
Karzz is a Himesh Reshammiya overdose. Its gets monotonous to sit through a movie which has Himesh in almost every frame; either singing, dancing or quite simply hamming his way through. Although the extremely confident star does deserve credit for the effort he has put into the making of the film, he unfortunately can’t act, over the top soon as the scene gets a tad bit emotional. If Aap Ka Surroor had Himesh in just one expression throughout, here we have him in about 2 and half expressions! He managed to extract something out of the pale looking audience, just before the climax, most were in splits when Himesh leaps high in the air to confront one of the villains, infact the action sequences throughout are quite funny to say the least.
Karzz is like one of those Mithun Chakraborty B grade action movies of the 80s targeted mainly towards Himesh’s hardcore fan following based in the interiors of India. The pace is slow, so slow that it could put you into deep slumber. The songs, composed and sung by Himesh himself, lack variety. Ek Haseena Thi, is the only track that stands out.
Urmila Matondkar is poor in the important scenes and guess I noticed a wee bit more of Urmila’s upper torso than most did. Shweta Kumar looks beautiful, but her role demands no scope for histrionics. Danny Denzongpa is fine. Bakhtiyaar Irani is good. Gulshan Grover has a very small role with no dialogues. Dino Morea again has nothing much to do.
Overall, Karzz is a below average product. If your a die-hard Himesh Reshammiya fan, go for it. For the rest, its a big no-no! Business wise, the movie should do well in the smaller towns, but probably will be rejected by the multiplex audience.
Rating: 
Poor
Other notes: The mutliplex I watched the movie in, was about 10% full, which is quite shocking even for a 11 AM morning show.
Did you watch Himesh Reshammiya’s remake of the yesteryear Karz (directed by Subhash Ghai)? If yes, please vote in the poll below.
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October 17th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
its a poor movie,only the songs are good,himesh dont know how to act but he is still trying,i hope his next movie kajrare will be good,urmila performance was also very poor she is a fine actress,i dont know why she cant act in this film,new girl was also wasted rest of the cast was also poor,only 1 star out of 5.
October 18th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Holly Crap ! Total Movie Suckz , Himesh Dnt no 2 Act Only , Urmila Has Losen Her touch in movie n Abt Heroine She want to learn manythings . . Danny n Gulshan is just ok . . Take One Anacin With U Coz If U Not Dat Nose Singer Fan . U Wud Get Headache Sure . . My Rating 4 Movie is 1 . .
October 18th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Crap Crap Crap, it was tough to sit throughout the movie, the older version was fantastic,Shweta does not have the heroine material at all, only Urmila’s presence on the screen made watching the movie worthwhile, but as all the focus was on Himesh it made Urmila,s performance look weak.There is a song after every 5 mins???. Himesh we like to hear songs & not come to theatre to watch songs, instead take out albums & we will watch u perform but plz do not act in films u will lose out on your popularity. My Rating is 0.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Original Karz is one my top 10 fav oldies n got it in my dvd collections. It was a brilliant classic from Subash Ghai, as well as a hearttouching romantic story.
But most thing that dissatisfy me in this new one is its title ending with zz…its really hopeless. Satish must have realised this b4 handling this project.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Anyway, let the audiences criticise or appreciate it I must have to spend some bucks on it so that I can compare it with the original Karz.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I don’t need to watch it.. the trailer says it’s a crap, even spending 1/2 a minute is too much for a movie who’s starring ( Himesh Reshamiya)! what I’m feeling sorry for is Urmila who is a good actres, and in the trailer of this movie, I could feel that her performance wasn’t that good.. so did someone force her to do it?!! Maybe!!
October 18th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
i unfortunately had to attend the premiere of himesh sirs moviebut sadly had difficulty sitting in the multiplex the movie was uttrly atrocious had it not been for kunal with whom i had gone i would have left way early.. the movie didnt make any sense himesh sir cant act and he should acept it why bhushan sir roped him in i dont follow .my advise to bro and sis of this country is to avoid this movie
October 18th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
mind blowing movie himesh bhai just rocked little too much songs in the movie but will rock the collections ………………………………….jab tak himesh bhai ka fanclub hai tab tak movie ko stars ki zarrorat nahi koi kuch bhi bole JAI MATA DI LEZ ROCK
October 18th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
himesh is rocktar
October 18th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Himesh has done it once again.. Its good movie.. He has proved to be a good actor. Not surprisingly the songs are too good and their picturisations are incredible.
Great going…..Congrates.
October 18th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
The movie rocks./… Its is the best movie ever made in bollywood….. Himesh is the best actor he may get a national award for KARZZZ….. I’ve started lyieng these days……. yes u fucker himesh,, why dont u kill in one shot insted of making this shit???????
October 19th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
11 PM morning show.
Get ur timings right brother!
October 19th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
himesh bhai you simply rock i can not afford to see your movie coz i can not tollerate it because you are ther however i liked your music and buied a CD for that
October 19th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
The BIGGEST comedy of the year!
I can’t remember laughing so much AT a movie in years! Every frame in which Himesh is present made us laugh our guts out in the cinema hall!
Watch it, and laugh at its atrocity and mediocrity! Himesh - King of Unintentional Comedy!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
October 19th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
It was very nice movie. Himesh’s acting was good and Urmila was also looking good
October 20th, 2008 at 8:38 am
yet to watch the movie, but seems from the movie review the movie is crap, so may’s well not to watch. sorry himesh.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Karzz is the fantastic movie, Satish Kaushik direction is superb and there is a tremendous improvement in all aspects in himesh’s performance, he prove himself again as a no.1 rockstar of the country.
Perhaps he is the only star in the country who can attract the people individually on his carissma,
Music of karzz is outstanding, the only thing which can be improved is screenplay of the film..
beyond that Karzz is a must watch alltogether…..
well done himeshji;-0
**** OUT OF *****
October 20th, 2008 at 11:09 am
sounds like shit….!!!! himesh needs to shoot himself, i’d have done that if murder was legal!
one more thing… never imagined that there could be a ‘11 pm morning show’!!!
October 20th, 2008 at 11:27 am
hats off too you Himesh, you did a lot better than i expected. i thought you would go the same way as Sonu Nigam - he really could not act, but you proved us wrong. you have an audience that loves you and your music - no harm in making them happy. no superstar including Abhishek, Kareena, Saif, Akshay etc. were perfect in the first few movies they made - we don’t expect it of you either. all the best you will get there. congratulations on your movie becoming a super blockbuster.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
If Sonu Nigam was a bad actor, but his voice is the best best best voice in India.. I really love his voice, his voice is even better than Kishore, Ravi, Mukesh, in the past, he is the best singer, so he is (excused) if he tried to do some movies and failed ( the singers normally, male and female, don’t have the good look to be actors, that’s also a fact, they must stick to their main performance as singers only)
October 20th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
KISHORE KUMAR WAS EXCELLENT IN EVERY FIELD - ACTING AND SINGING. HOPEFULLY HIMESH WILL REACH THERE
October 20th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
lund per char jao itni gandi movie hai
October 20th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Bhushan Kumar ne kya och kar bander ko apni film me liya maloom nahi,isse pehli film Bhool Bhuliya kya super film thi,maloom nahi ye langoor apne ko kya samjhata hai harek sector mein fail gandu,mere paisa bekar gaye,kute age se film meien acting aur gana chod do hum logo per meharbani karo.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
If Himesh can act in any movie then our country has more than 1 billion actors.
He is king of unintentional comedy. Jay mata di lets Flop
October 20th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
very good film
music is nice
October 20th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
the film is doing very well at the box-office. congratulations to all concerned. i think the music is fantastic. rather a remake an Indian movie than the constant remakes of movies from the west.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Source: http://boxofficeindia.com/npages.php?page=shownews&articleid=498&nCat=news
Karzzzz has performed badly at the box office over the weekend. The business in single screens is okay but multiplexes are dull. The best day was Sunday but even then multiplex capacity was just 50%. Monday has seen falls in collections all over.
The first day business was nearly 3 crore nett so the first weekend is likely to be 9-10 crore nett and the first week likely to be around 12 crore nett which is a poor performance for a film released on around 800 cinemas and sold for for fairly big prices. The film will be a hefty loser for its investors.
Watch the movie - King of Unintentional Comedy at his BEST! =))
October 21st, 2008 at 1:04 am
for all the himesh fans the movie is worth atleast one watch…just too many songs i would say…himesh acting is musch improved…just found it a bit comical when he did action scenes…maybe we are not having that image of his in our minds….
for all the non-himesh fans…yaar give this guy a brake all the big superstars of today didnt act too well in their frst few movies….this guy has talent and a big heart thats why he attempts and gives so musch after so much criticism…just love the humility of himesh …and for all the detractors of himesh you people listyen to his music and love it but just cant confess it…give urself a break………
October 21st, 2008 at 2:31 am
Saw this movie out of curiosity, knowing nothing about any of the actors, or of the previous version, at the Cineworld Multiplex in London’s West End, early afternoon show. Only 7 people to keep me company. The script was cliche, acting was mediocre, songs were only so-so. (But the “theme” is still in my mind.) I did, agreeing with some of the comments above, find it hilarious at times, and by the end, some of the others in the audience were joining in my laughter. Part 1 had too many musical numbers, and the story took a long time to start moving. And the hilarious climax of a too-long Part 2 was enlivened by the appearance of virtually the complete cast, out of nowhere, it seemed, making violent curtain-calls! Probably would do better, and I might have enjoyed Karzzzz more with a bigger audience, in the London area, at the Harrow Safari or the Himalaya Palace, but will not be showing anywhere after this Thursday. 2 out of 5.
October 21st, 2008 at 3:11 am
Finally I watched it n wish to give it simply 50-50(good-bad). Positive is that Himesh tried his best n did as much he could justify his role, n he is the only owner of this movie. This remake has its own additional story than the original, but not smooth n romantic as the original. Danny has an interesting role, alongwith Urmila as the burning fire.
Negative is with the casting. Its shocking how Danny Denzongpa was casted as Muslim Kabira coz he doesnt look at all like Muslim though his character is pleasing. New Shweta was useless n still has a long improvement to be a top actress. After all, originals r always the best.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:48 am
Thanks for all the short reviews everyone.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
dont waste ur money n time… himesh always sucks…. u ll come out o theater wid bad headache
October 27th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I didn’t want to watch this movie because I was sure 100% that the movie is a crap, but I was bored a few days ago, so I watched it online and kept laughing of the poor direction and (poor Himesh) why did he think of acting.. I don’t know!! and Urmila’s acting also was bad in this movie although she’s a good actress ( it was obvious that she didn’t want to do it but the producer convinced her, and that’s what she mentioned on b4u channel, so that was the result! Urmila deserves good scripts and to be in big movies, not a crappy like this one and with a bad actor!)
And what to say about the director.. he’s a moron fool and thought the audience is fool too that he’d never notice the flaws in his movies:
The Flaws:
1) The director did a remake of a good movie but with a bad direction, and hired a wrong actor for his movie.
2) Himesh dies in a plane crash, his wife lives, after how long do we say.. 25 years the minimum, Himesh is reborn, became young which means his wife should be at the age of 50 or 55, and the director should’ve done for her a hairstlye, makeup to look older, but urmila looked in her best, young as she was 25 years before and showedup in a red hot dress which isn’t suitable for her age!
3) Himesh, after the reborn, had the necklase which he gifted his wife before he dies.. so how did he maintain the same necklase again and he was braught up with another family?!!
4) Girls could hear Himesh singing, while he’s flying by a helicopter!! how could they hear him from that long distance!!
5) Himesh was singing on the stage: Hari om Hari om and was jumping like a monkey which was pathetic!
6) Gulshan in a bad cheesy role
Himesh Reshamiya’s face expression, in sad scenes wasn’t bad, but he lacks all the talents as an actor, so it’d better for him to be just a singer, that’s all he can do
October 27th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
dear himes sir.once again you have done a brilliant job.your acting in the film was superb and your singing and composing is no doubt the best of the best.we request you sir pleazzzzz keep acting and singing.
–i also request the audience to please watch this movie because himesh is a multi talented person.
–it is not fair that himesh sir work hard for the songs and some other person sung it and become famous.
–no man can even do singing,composing,and acting at one time but himesh do so on his best..
–and himesh sir is a very hard working person thats why i like him..
–we all pray for himesh to live long and keep act,and sing.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:55 am
HIMESH, sorry to say but your movie sucked, Listen stop making these shity movies, get the hell out of bollywood, you should be thankful to people who listen to your ugly voice, For me you are worth nothing,,,,,, seriously if it was in my hands i woould have kicked you out of the industry, also from Sa Re Ga Ma Pa,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, you suck dude,,,,,,,, No regrets to say this at all…………….
October 28th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Himesh’s voice is good only for some specific songs e.g. Aashiqe Banaya, Wadah Tanu, some only.. but see his voice tune in the song : hari om hari om.. is so bad!! I just didn’t understand why the hype for this singer.. can’t be compared with Sanu Nigham, he got such a nice voice, very nice, and he should be called : The King of singers in india, then Shan who is good too, and then the rest.
I loved the voice of the singer who sang for the movie (Masti), the last sad song (Dil De Diyah Hai) what a good song and lyrics, he got a deep voice specially for sad songs, anyone call tell me his name please, if anyone knows?
October 29th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Fathiya, Himesh is a brilliant Music composer (remember Tere Naam). He should really give up singing and especially acting.
Dil De Diya Hai from Masti was sung by Anand Raj Anand, who is also a quite popular music composer.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Indicine Team: Himesh was the music composer of the songs of the movie (Tere Naam)? I didn’t know that but if he was, then he’s brilliant, specially 2 songs ( Teren Naam & Aureni or audeni.. I’m not sure of the correct spelling). Moreover, his voice is not suitable to be used for some actors in movies.. while watching (Namaste London) using his voice for (Akshay Kumar)!! didn’t match at all!
November 1st, 2008 at 2:21 am
do like himmesh then talk guys and gals
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:47 am
HEY BHAVIK MAIN AP K SATH HUN JAI MATA DI LETS ROCK
November 12th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Himesh plz concentrate on singing rather acting…or nak se gana band kar…
July 4th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
himesh u rock lets rock