Kyaa kool hai hum (2005, India)

A Bollywood musical comedy, with a weak storyline and very confusing plot.

Rahul (Tushar Kapoor) and Karan (Riteish Deshmukh) are friends but they get thrown out of college and lose their flat, so they go to Mumbai. The best job they can get is in a women's fashion shop.

On the lookout for girls, they encounter the daughter of a wealthy man (who turns out to be the boss they work for) and when they help her unlock the car, she takes Karan with her. Due to a misunderstanding, Karan believes her name is Kiran, but in fact she is Kiran's sister.

Rahul encounters an astrologer and asks his advice, although he hasn't got the money to pays the man's fee. But he takes pity on him and tells him that he is destined to find a girl who has a mole on her chest; when he does his fortunes will change and the world will be at his feet. The naive Rahul sets off to examine all girls he meets to verify this, and at a party he tries to examine the bust of Kiran, played by Bobby Darling, a transsexual actress.

There have been a spate of rapes and murders in the city, and Kiran screams and Rahul runs off. In the hotel's garage he is loading a car with the fashion company's property when Kiran appears to get her car, which is adjacent, and Rahul accidentally sets off a chainsaw -- evidently essential equipment for a fashion company -- and she thinks he is going to murder her.

At the police station, Kiran manages to identify Rahul from pictures in their files. But now it emerges that she is the lover of DK, who is the boss of the fashion chain; and the two boys are staying (more or less illegally) in his house while he is away on a business trip. When she telephones DK they make an excuse and ring off, and she assumes that DK is dumping her.

Later however, Rahul goes to see her parents, still under the impression that Kiran is the beautiful girl he saw at the car park. When he arrives at the house they are both on the balcony, and he waves, oblivious to his error. He sees the parents and tells them that he wants to marry Kiran, and they are horrified and they chase him out of the house.

Kiran is referred to in the subtitles as "that man-woman" but there is no further explanation of this, although everyone is horrified at the suggestion of marriage, and I think it is assumed that she is a crossdresser and not a transsexual.

Anyway, the whole plot now collapses into increasingly unbelievable slapstick nonsense.

Bobby Darling has made a number of films and has given several media interviews about her childhood and transition.

The film is also known as We Are So Cool.

HF June 2007

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