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Masand's movie review: Kaminey is imaginative
Published on Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 01:34, Updated on Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 02:03 in Entertainment section
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Cast: Shahid Kapur, Priyanka Chopra, Amole Gupte, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Tenzing Nima, Shiv Subramanium
Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
When was the last time you came out of a film wishing you could go back in and watch it again immediately so the excitement in your stomach stays longer?
Vishal Bharadwaj's Kaminey is a film you'll either love or passionately despise.
It's an unpredictable crime drama that combines violence and dark humor in a manner that's reminiscent of the films of Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie and the Coen Brothers. And yet Kaminey is so original and inventive in the manner in which it takes Bollywood's favorite formula - twin brothers - and turns it on its head.
Shahid Kapur is cast as both twins, each saddled with a speech impediment. Charlie, the small-time gangster has a lisp, he pronounces every 's' as 'f'; meanwhile Guddu is a timid NGO worker who stammers when he speaks.
There's no love lost between the boys, who haven't seen each other for three years, so we follow their tracks separately, until suddenly their lives collide.
Charlie has chanced upon a guitar that contains cocaine worth 10 crore rupees. His life is made, he thinks.
Guddu, on the other hand, has got his girlfriend pregnant, and as luck would have it, turns out she's the sister of a local gangster-politician.
Take that as a cue for much mayhem which involves encounters with dreaded drug-lords, corrupt cops and the quirkiest set of henchmen any Hindi film has ever produced.
The real strength of Kaminey is its writing. The non-linear screenplay is filled with unfamiliar twists and confusing turns that are likely to baffle you along the way; yet they're all neatly tied up and culminate in a thrilling climax which is violent and comical in equal parts.
The film's dialogue is top-notch; writer-director Vishal Bharadwaj finds a way to make the lines humorous without ever seeming to ask for a laugh.
Take the scene in which Guddu squarely blames his girlfriend for getting pregnant, and she retaliates with an outburst, demanding to know if she'd raped him then.
Or the scene in which a cop Lobo coaxes Guddu to give a police statement in song, because that's the only way to get the kid to communicate without a stutter.
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@ganesh.s007
Well said bro this is really sad .... the audience must grow up and appreciated the efforts like
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hehe. it is unbelievable how movies are rated by audiences now days. Love aj kal is a gd movie but
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I totally agree with the 4 stars.
Bollywood has finally come out with a creative and
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Hi Rajeev,
I watched the movie on the second week of the release in multiplex. After much
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Its absolutely an original movie.The reason for anyone to feel this movie has resemblance with any other movie is its
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