Review of Kaminey

Kaminey (2009)
10/10
Dhan Te Nan... watch it……Kaminey!
14 August 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Well this is most awaited movie for this Manfoon....and i have not sleep all night as my wife is out town, i just patiently wait for 9.00 to see first show......you think now i'm crazy ....but yes its well worth....its best movie this year.

(caution!!! Please don't bring popcorn or coke with you...no time to blink eyes)

Its begin with Dhan Te Nan

two brothers, a world apart, in complete hate with each. One in love with the over the top- Sweety, the other in love with money. One an aspiring white colour-currently NGO worker, the other a small time fixer hoodlum with dreams of owning his own booking Khidki at the local racetrack. One a cutely lisper, the other 'Ph KO Ph bloat hair'.

So is this a Judwa Bhai story? Naaah …are Bhai-Bhai supposed to kill each other rather than for each other? Perhaps a love story? But Sweety-Guddu story is only a side show. Maybe an action/gangster movie? But are these supposed to have a brain, except to Bach up

The plot of Kaminey revolves around twins Charlie & Guddu. Charlie lisps (using F at place of S and believes that life has two options, one shortcut and second Chota shortcut and he had a dream of opening his own bookie counter ) where as Guddu trips over his tongue. Though they are twins but nature wise they are different (Wo Chalta Hain, main Bhagta Hun:- as Charlie says) and cant stand the sight of one another. But at one eventful day they came across each other when Guddu decided to marry his love Sweety, sister of Marathi don Bhope and Charlie got mixed up in fixed narcotic deal of Taashi to get rich using Chota shortcut. Now both get involved in the world of coke, politics, corruption, money and guns. Soon they realised that though they hate each other but all they have is each other and then they fight with their fate, gangsters, politicians and corrupted cops to protect themselves and their dreams.

A special mention for Shahid Kapur who plays the two characters with skill that comes from years of acting, especially the detail of the speech defects both characters have. Priyanka Chopra is excellent too, but this is clearly a Shahid Kapur film.

But the real star is Vishal Bhardwaj; whether it is the music of the film or the story and of course the direction, you have to hand it to the man He tells you a myriad stories in this film and yet brings it all together to tell a cohesive tale. Hats of

The acting- The star cast was brilliant and I couldn't find a single flaw with any actor or role. Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra without doubt were mind blowing, but so were all the other actors. For once we had actors not faking the'Bengali accent' or have a 'bhai' or 'yeda' thrown in for the Marathi feel. Though subtitles during the slightly longer Bengali sentences would've helped non Bengali's to understand the dialogues, the acting made sure that we grasped what was happening.

The music- What can i say but Dhan tenon... TA TA tan Tana!! The music was simple superb and I had to literally hold on to my seat for fear of jumping up and dancing.All the songs were brilliant, however one song did remind us hugely of Omkara's title song.

rush to your near theatres ....Just run like Charlie not like Guddu slow walk either you miss the movie..

Hats off to the Story writer of Africa who write this story and Me Bharadwaj is not only good filmmaker a gr8 businessmen too as he brought this Blood diamond in 4000 bucks
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