One of the most anticipated movie of the year, at least for me. The reason is only one man associated with the movie, Vishal Bhardwaj. He has never disappointed me in the past. Every time he made a movie, no matter what the cast is, he did wonders. Did you ever expect Saif to do a Langda Tyagi? This time again, the expectations were huge and I was hoping not to be disappointed. Something was not right with Kaminey, the reason could be it was not inspired by Shakespeare but by Guy Ritchie. The difference can be seen clearly when you watch the movie. This does not mean, it's bad movie. It's much better than many movies you would have seen recently, yet it's not as good as you expected it to be. It's not brilliant. May be I would not have written so much above, if it was not made by Vishal Bhardwaj.
Kaminey is story of one night and how it affects the lives of twins, Charlie and Guddu. The only thing identical about these twins is their looks and that is precisely the reason they are not talking to each other (then why the hell they had each other's cell nos). While Guddu is in love with Sweety, who cons him to get married to her, against her brother Bhope Bhau's wish. Bhope Bhau happens to be a politician promoting son of the soil in Mumbai and our Guddu happens to be from Barabanki. On the other hand Charlie, who fixes horse races, land up with a Guitar case full of Cocaine, which belongs to Tashi the great (that's how he addresses him once and nobody seems to recongnise him) and is being delivered to him by Mumbai Police Anti-narcotics Cell's Inspectors Lobo and Lele. By the time you hit the intermission, both the brothers and fallen into hands of the wrong party. What happens next is nothing but a long list of coincidences, which result into both brothers realising the bond of blood.
Here again Vishal takes the best out of his actors. Every actor has done good job, specially Priyanka and Shahid as Charlie (there is something about bad guys in Vishal's movies). Surprise package is Amol Gupte as Bhope Bhau, hope to see more of him in front of the camera. The trouble about short length stories, (here it covers barely 24 hours) is that they mostly are a sequence of events and the flow of the script depends on many God-only-could-create coincidences. This is what happens here too, although Vishal tries to put some sense to the proceedings by the use of narration (thank God it was Charlie narrating the story not Guddu), and some flash back. Another problem is, I could clearly see Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels while watching the movie. Some scenes are shot brilliantly like Guddu-Sweety encounters, while some I found over dramatic and lengthy like where Mikhael is shot. I realise, I have talked so much about the film and have not talked about the background score, Dhan te nan. Well as soon as the movie starts, you get to hear the soul of the film, Dhan te nan and every time you hear that sound you get alert expecting Charlie to surprise you. Overall the movie is good and should be watched at least once, but don't expect it to be an Omkara or a Maqbool. Just go there with your brain else by the time you realise what's going on you would be seeing end credits.
I would give this film 7 out of 10, it's a nice film but I expected more.
Friday, August 21, 2009
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3 comments:
Well.. i believe the problem is "Fake Reviews". The movie wasn't great and the reviews made it worse. They raised our expectations and the movie wasn't made to stand up to those expectations.
Now lets talk about the movie. I would rate this movie way below VB's other flicks. May be a 2.5 - 3 out of 5.
Firstly, I was disappointed by the story. Well i would say, there was none. Why does ending need to be a happy one?
Then I was disappointed by the star cast. Now come on, Shahid Kapur cannot be a part of any of the movies VB has made till date and which the junta have loved.
And wtf did he put full songs in the movie. Boss gone are the days when you had to insert full songs into your movies... oye lucky has beautifully portrayed the use of songs... but only as a background score.
Well... i believe it was an over hyped bad movie. We expect more of VB.
I think these reviewers also did not like the movie but they posted great reviews just because it came from the maker of Omkara and Maqbool. They would have thought, how can they not like a movie made by VB. They decided that it's a good movie and then justified it in the review.
I totally agree with the use of songs part. I liked Dan te nan more when it was playing in the background, in the starting sequence.
this movie wasn't about story, while omkara and maqbool were. It was more about proving the directional skills that even a story-less-just-another-action-movie can hit the success band. Wasn't Ghajni the same, for amir khan to prove some thing.
Now a days, even best-of-the-directors-clan trying to prove some thing else than "ART".
Ant way, many a times the camera angle made me remind of RGV, I hope you know "why RGV?".
ciao
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