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”

A Walk to Remember…in Rain

11 pm, Tuesday, July 28, 2009, New Delhi
Just got up after a 3 hour long ‘shot-nap’ in which I remembered my kal (yesterday)… Yesterday, it rained in Delhi and I experienced my best walk – “A walk to remember”.
AG remembered ‘the walking dream’ in dreams today

Yesterday it rained in Delhi.

I boarded my cab around 6:30 at evening. At that time it was drizzling. Somehow we managed to cross Noida without much traffic but as soon as we entered Delhi, it was a standstill. After standing for Maharani Bagh for a substantial period of time, we finally managed to move and crossed the Ashram flyover. When I saw outside, cloud where on ‘cloud nine’ and it raining very heavily…And

I took the CORRECT step…

“bass phir kya tha, main chal padha, un rasto par jo jaate the mere ghar”
I decided to complete my journey from Lajpat Nagar on foot. As soon as my left foot got down, sound of ‘chap’ came; it was full inside water. Nerve chilling water after such a harsh summer…finally. Within 1-2 minutes I was all wet and getting wet in that intensity of rain was heavenly. It took me to a different world, a world where you don’t think that Tuesday comes after Monday and that Tuesdays are working.

I have a serious disorder, that I am Myopic with quite a high power. But today I wasn’t able to see through my specs; frost comes free with rain. Taking them off was a brave move and again a correct one. Now the standstill traffic was clearer to me. Standing at the starting of Lajpat Nagar flyover, it was a unique scene – Cars lined up in ascend and water coming down from the crest of the flyover…fabulous irony. Somebody was playing “rut ye tal jayegi, himmat rang layegi, subah phir aayegi…ye hosla kaise jhuke, ye aarzoo kaise ruke”. Must be our cab driver.

Remember you stand beneath a shower and you let off your emotions through bathroom singing. Ditto here, just that here you are on roads…but then who the F cares? Strangely I discovered Anu Malik was the best flavour for this kind of wheather. His lifetime’s best creation “dekho baarish ho rahi hai, its rainning, its raining, itz raaainning” finally got a perfect voice and an awarding ambience. Though sympathies to the listeners: drivers.

Slowly and steadily I walked through the canals flowing besides the Ring Road crossing important junctions. During this leg I also witness the man made Moolchand lake – an eerie on that day. Ring Road was Hell on that day and all cars destination was through that Hell road!!
It was raining, I was walking.

On my journey I passed through a hot posh South Delhi market. There was a group of girls in the same of mood. They were dancing and enjoying the rain to the fullest. It reminded me of that fabulous Kajol song “ho gaya hai tujhko to pyaar sanjana, laakh kar le tu inkaar sanjana”. Rain romantics seeping in.

It was now the turn of service lanes which were again tiny lakes today. I saw a jazzy car zipping towards me with a high velocity; it was Honda Jazz (the ‘why-so-serious’ one). Assessing the water reality around me, I turned instantaneously and my back had a huge splash of murky street water. WOW. On any other day, I would have taken an extreme reaction but today was different, it wanted more of this kiddish fun. “ek baar se dil nahi bharta mudd ke dekh mujhe dobara…tan tana tan tan tan tana..”. Wish the car would have turned back and I would have experienced that splash once more.

I ended my 2.5 hr long voyage and reached home safely in the rain. At late night, the rain finally stopped and a cool breeze was flowing, making the night more romantic - “aaj mausam bada baimaan hai”. What an experience, truly a walk to remember!

PS: Next day was Tuesday and was working for me. The man-made Moolchand lake was still existent and seemed the authorities wanted it to be permanent spectacle.
Took me 3.5 hrs to reach office, that too in a car.