Lifted from a copy of admired American TV series Kitchen Confidential, Love Khichdi is about a Casanova chef Vir (Randeep) Hooda who is on a bed-hopping spree and is busy fantasizing about the many women in his life.

If only “Love Khichdi” would have come to the point at least 20 minutes before it ultimately does, it could have been a dish to be savoured.

In the movie, Randeep Hooda meets seven diverse women/girls in his life and after the introduction of each one of them; it is obvious who would be the one he would want to settle down with. However, that’s not the point of fight here. The point here is the whole voyage that the protagonists take that leads to eagerness in the viewers towards the latter half.

To credit the writer-director though, he doesn’t make Randeep look, act and behave like one fresh stud Casanova who would sweep women off their feet. Yes, the man here does feel that he is proficient of doing so but in the end, there is nothing heroic about him as he just comes across as a usual good-looking man in his mid-20s.

So whether it is a much-married Punjabi neighbour (Divya Dutta), a pencil thin model (Jesse Randhawa), a globetrotting industrialist (Kalpana Pandit) or even his voluptuous maid (Sonali Kulkarni), he has the hots for each of one them.

Yes, he does come close to falling in love with a woman (Rituparna Sengupta) and eventually does find true love as well (in Sadaa Sayed). The only female that he avoids though is the mini skirt-wearing schoolgirl Riya Sen.

What does make “Love Khichdi” exciting at occasions is the whole ‘talking to the camera’ story that the director applies. Proving the proverb ‘Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus’, the movie shows what a man and a woman would think about the same situation.

On the other hand, a couple of tracks don’t work at all. The one with Rituparna Sengupta irks every time it appears in the story while the one with Kalpana Pandit could have been completely chopped off.

Jesse’s track lasts just one scene though one wouldn’t have minded seeing more of Riya Sen. As for Sonali Kulkarni, she is there mainly to get some talk heavy portions around men and their qualities.

The track that gets the most giggles is the one with Divya Dutta. She is the life of the film for the first half of the movie as she shines in each of the scenes that she appears.

The movie though finally boils down to be the show reel for the lead couple - Randeep and Sadaa. Sadaa gets highest footage out of the seven women and does full justice to her part in her debut Bollywood film. She is beautiful, self-assured and her experience in movies down south shows. “Love Khichdi” is bound to get her noticed.

As for Randeep, he can rest assured that regardless of the film’s destiny at the box office, he would be seen in a new light from here on. He doesn’t have the normal ‘stud boy’ role in the movie and still manages to shine in most of his scenes.

At last, “Love Khichdi” may not be the prefect film but is decent enough to be a one-time watch.