Kaun Kitne Paani Mein review: Saurabh Shukla is spot on, too bad the film is not

Good idea, faulty execution. Using water as a trade commodity is a powerful concept, especially given that there is so much drought and so little accessible clean drinking water in so many parts of India. Livelihoods, and lives, depend upon having water to hand.

And the director knows how to spin a yarn with fable-like qualities, which was so evident in the impactful ‘I Am Kalam’. But ‘Kaun Kitne Paani Mein’ is marred by its plodding pace, heavy melodrama, and a needless vulgar streak.

Which is a pity because not just the idea, but a terrific performance by Saurabh Shukla, gets lost. As an old-time royal, who has no idea how to do anything for himself, whether it is wearing his clothes (if you’ve ever helped a very little child to dress, both uppers and lowers, you will know how this is done) or washing his butt, and how you be entitled yet not all evil, Shukla is spot on.

Too bad the film is not.

Kaun Kitne Paani Mein star cast:  Saurabh Shukla, Gulshan Grover, Kunal Kapoor, Radhika Apte

Director : Nila Madhab Panda