A daringly quirky joyride

The makers of Khel Khel Mein take their time to set the pieces on board. There's a gala event, some flashbacks and a couple of flashy songs that drag the narrative.

- Prathamesh Jadhav

First, the candid confession! One walks into the theatre without much expectation from Mudassar Aziz's directorial venture titled Khel Khel Mein and walks out rewarded with a daringly hatke storyline replete with a generous dollop of humour. While the usual suspects—Akshay Kumar and Taapsee Pannu—sparkle with their incredible comic timing, Fardeen Khan too looks impressive in this one.

If you have seen the trailer, you will know how the story unfolds. A bunch of friends with their spouses reunite only to see themselves play an unusual 'cellphone' game. The task is apparently simple. Everybody will have full access to each other's cellphones for a night. The incoming calls and the streaming messages should be heard and read in everybody's presence—that's the mandate! What looks like a fun (read: albeit a risque) game at the beginning, quickly turns into a rather serious scenario where everybody's deep secrets, insecurities, sexual fantasies, obsessions, ambitions and limitations start tumbling out, only to reveal who these individuals really are right to the core.