Karthik Calling Karthik

Rating:	★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Mystery & Suspense

Ok...maybe the producers chose the name Karthik for the title because demographics showed them that Karthiks in general tend to be brainy,smart and geeky.
Out of the four Karthiks I know, two of them have gone to the same pretigious and hard to enter Engineering College, the other two are not even remotely smart, and probably haven't touched a book after high school.
So in my life, Karthiks are evenly balanced out.

In the movie, Karthik (Akthar) is a quintessential geek, a topper with CA and MBA.
But he is also a pushover, a doormat and...also in love with the most beautiful girl in the office, Shonali.(Ms.Padukone), with whom he doesn't have even a smidgen of a chance.
One day his life changes when he gets a call from Karthik...i.e himself which basically gives him a life makeover, helps him get an attitude readjustment, a better job, and ...the girl.
His life is transformed completely by the daily calls he gets, but then he makes a mistake that costs him dearly.
The caller , Karthik now turns vengeful and basically ruins his life and... makes him lose the girl.

The rest of the story revolves around how Karthik solves his dilemma...
I had gone to the movie with KCG, on his birthday (today) , so my tagline was "Went to Karthik Calling Karthik with Karthik"

We , the veterans of kitsch and pulp fictions, guessed the plot of the movie within a few minutes after the plot was presented before us.
I guess we had seen too many movies in this genre...but the rest of the movie was 2 guys making wisecracks and cracking oneliners that seemed at that point to be funnier than the script itself.
Agreed that the movie has its hitchcockian moments , and that the suspense is well built up...but frankly it will not pass muster with a crowd that is well exposed to world cinema.
Acting, cinematography,direction,editing and any other technicalities...these are areas where a layman like me has no business venturing into, so I'll leave them to people who get paid for writing these kinds of stuff.
But if you are well educated urban yuppie who only watches hindi movies, you'll actually find this movie different and like it for its bold attempt at a psychological suspense drama.