Monday, August 17, 2009

Kaminey - fimply fuperb n awefome

A dark rainy day at Delhi's Priya complex and ‘just-out-of-bed’ timings. Brothers land up to see Kaminey brothers (also spotted Kamineys - a Teen-Diva girle? and a Splitsvilla loser!). The whole complex was empty accept ticket window. And then you realizes that’s it…House Full…aife aife kaife kaife. I have started to use ‘f’ more instead of ‘s’.

Story –
The movie is about two brothers separated in school-hood. Two brothers – Charlie (who pronouns ‘s’ as ‘f’) and Guddu (hak..hak..hakla). In attitude, Charlie is like a musfular horse while Guddu like an innocent donkey (may be it reflects in their names). Charlie is a gangfter who is in horse betting gamble and wants to have his own bookie booth while Guddu wants an ideal life (i.e. increment in age is directly proportional to progress in life). As story proceeds, destinies of the two brothers get connected. While our innocent ass has made his ‘tomboyish-aggressive’ Marathi lady (Sweety) pregnant, our horse’s luck has just got him a treasure. Sweety’s brother is another Kamina in his movie (Bhupe Bhau), who chants ‘Jai Maharasthra’ and will not allow his sister to marry our ass. On the other hand, Charlie with the kind of treasure he is handling is out to get into trouble as there are a lot of kamineys in the movie - a Bengali brothers trio, a drug dealer who have Nigerians as his clients and how can we leave out Bombay police (Bo-po).

Starcast -

Fahid Kapoor (Hein…ye kaun hai), alais Shahid Kapoor. This has to be a defining movie for him. Difficult to imagine but he has done full justice to both roles of horse and donkey in this movie (I mean role of Charlie and Guddu respectively). As Guddu , he is Budhhu and innocent. This kind of acts has been his forte, thanks to his choco looks. But his appearance as Charlie is fimply fuperb, awefome. He looks macho, hunk and carries the role very well and pronouns ‘f’ instead of ‘s’ very correctly (fantaftic).
Priyanka Chopra who enacts as Sweety here is bold, both in thoughts and acts. She is fitted into the whole plot very nicely. Frankly I can’t see anybody else doing her role (especially that stain-gun firing scene).

Kamineys (the Dons and the Gangs) – the Bengali brothers trio (man!! they actually looked gangster material…bhalo khoub bhalo), Francis (how can we miss him when we speak about Dons and Gangstars in Hindi cinema; so he too is here), Tashi (a drug dealer who loved tattoos, bitches, doggies in descending order), Bhope Bhau (now this character is played by Mr. Amol Gupte, who was the creative director of Taare Zameen Par…where was the actor till now?), Mikhail, awesome (sry, awefome) and is the best Don amidst them. Lastly, Bopo (Bombay Police)…we can’t miss them.

Vishal Bharadwaj – director & music director & story writer & etc & a creative genius. He is known to have a different taste in bollywood. In Kaminey, he has brought the much acclaimed Tarantino’s dark-wit. Even the Tarantino’s trademark “Mexico-standoff” (all characters stand to put each other off) was there in the climax….recount reservoir dogs or copied ‘Kaante’. How he amalgamated the concept of two parted brothers, gangs culmination, love b/t a stammering hero & an aggressive girle and the wit from pronunciation is truly commendable.

Why Kaminey is not Pulp Fiction?
Because it’s not that Kaminey. Vishal Bharadwaj could have made it into a gangster cult movie with the story and cast he had, but then in India, commercial success in an important factor if you want to stay KNOWN in bollywood. His climax has some brilliant shots but there could have been more blood - more deadly execution. The love story b/t Guddu and Sweety could have been shortened and gangsters should have got more footage. But keeping in mind, box office expectations and the taste of common public, this is fabulous work done. 3.75/5

Songs –
Fuperb. Dhan Tan Nan by Sukhwinder is good but do listen to Mohit Chauhan’s Pheli baar mohobat ki hai (the credits song). My favorite one “meri arzoo kamini

Kabhi zindagi se maangaa
Pinjare mein chaand laa do
Kabhi laalten de ke
Kaha aasmaan pe taango
Jis kaa bhi chehra cheelaa
Andar se aur niklaa
Maasoom saa kabootar
Naachaa toh mor niklaa
Kabhi hum kaminey nikle
Kabhi doosre kaminey

jindagi un rasto se nahi banti jinko hum chunte hai,
balki unse banti hai jinko hum chhod dete hai

3 comments:

Az said...

I loved the Movie. Nice review.

Azamat

http://azwrites.wordpress.com

Ambuj PJ King said...

tera movie review padh liya.. ab movie dekhne jaoonga!!!

Unknown said...

wow. you seem to be getting better with every post. haven't watched the movie yet but got it on pen drive. this weekend for sure!!