I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Khwahish is not an original movie. It is based upon Erich Segal's famous novel "Love Story", which was made into a successful film in 1970. The story may not be new, but the writing was probably solid enough to make this romantic drama engaging. The film looked authentic, and the depiction was very simple. It was quite atypical in that it involved kissing scenes and several discussions about sex and social values. Even when the film entered its emotional phase, it was not overly melodramatic. The characters of Amar and particularly Lekha were quite interesting. He is a serious, headstrong and struggling guy, she is a simple, forthright, no-nonsense and smart girl, who is a fan of RD Burman's music. Their relationship was according to me portrayed quite well. The relationship between Lekha and her father Ulhas was also well done. Khawahish is Mallika Sherwat's film. She is the best thing about this film and the main reason it actually works. This is by no means a great performance, but she was simply lovable and played her role as naturally as she could, with evident sincerity and energy. Not to forget that she was absolutely sizzling and super sexy. Himanshu Malik was just okay in his role, while Mahmud Babai was fine as Lekha's loving father Ulhas. The soundtrack is one more reason to watch this film, and it gives the film a certain charm not warranted by the script. Asha Bhosle sings most of the songs and she does it brilliantly. My most favourite song is "Jaanemann", which was wonderful. Khwahish is not a great film, it lacks depth and at some points it is a bit slow, with the second half going downhill and losing its effervescence. That said, after all it does manage to move you with its final emotional proceedings and its tragic ending and is an overall enjoyable film despite the usual problems.

This movie is Indianised version of "Love Story" but dialogs and acting of all the stars is excellent. It does have scenes if kiss and romance which may shock most Indians, that is why they did not appreciate it. I have save it on tape and intend to show it to my friends and family.The actors and actresses are not very well known but they have done great justice to their roles. Mahmood Babai as father of Lekha's father is so remarkable a character that it is delight to see him whenever he is on the screen.Shivaji Satham has very small presence but is so natural and reminds me of my own father. It is delight to see him embrace Amar in the last scene.

A rehash of "Love story" - the opening monologue is a verbatim translation - this film is a prime candidate for "cruel and unusal punishment". To say that the actors have the acting range of wooden puppets is actually insulting to said puppets. The lead actor should be disbarred from acting ever again. To sum up, given the choice between a root-canal and watching the movie, i would exhort you to choose theformer.

**SPOILERS**"How I "wish" I hadn't seen the poster, How I "wish" these marketing guys weren't so darn good at their jobs, how I "wish"......etc etc" Just some of the thoughts that run through your mind after 3 minutes of Khwahish! The title is a misnomer, the raunchy posters are misleading and the movie misdirected.The first 3 minutes involve a monologue from the hero about his love and their life together. The setting is supposed to be sad and the tone serious but the sheer banality of the dialogues, not to mention the dead pan delivery, has the audience in splits.As the posters depict, its a love story (atleast they stuck to that part of the advertised theme!) between a rich man and a poor girl (if poor people dress like that then I wanna be poor!). About how they don't have much in common (except their low IQs) but still fall in love and get married and their lives together.******************************SPOILER****************************The posters allude at a lot of steamy scenes between the protagonists (thats what draws the crowd in) but what you really get is a show of flesh, a couple of real kisses (no two flowers or two bees) and a lot of free "talk" about sex. ********************END OF SPOILER**************************The acting is bad and exaggerated. All dialogues are delivered in the same monotone (the audience is in splits during all the wrong scenes) and some of the scenes are downright unbelievable. (like the heroine singing at her classical music concert).All said and done the movie does have something different to offer.The hero shows more flesh than the herione, the girl's dad is a real pal, the girl advocates safe sex and she earns and looks after the house while he completes his studies. Different ideas all but sadly, just not enough to make this movie a winner.