Comments on: Kaminey -Watch at Your Own Risk!!!

By: So, The T-shirts Go To…

So, The T-shirts Go To… — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:31:19 +0000

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By: gayatri

gayatri — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:03:35 +0000

Its the characterisation in all of VB movies that takes them above an average movies.In kaminey,Bhau is immensely funny and the take on Bombay/Mumbai is fantastic.Priyanka’s character as his fiery sister as opposed the mild Guddu,is etched pretty well.The best were the cops..”gaana gau kya”..shiv subramanium and the other guy played those cops so well.Mikhail in his foolish Godliness is not a character i have seen before.Charlie’s lisp becomes infectious as you watch the film.The mad Bengalis and taashi made it complete.
The screenplay is very tough as it involves the crossover of the two brothers’ lives and was handled very cleverly and skillfully.

By: Narad

Narad — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:33:25 +0000

In the 70s, directors like Manmohan Desai perfected what came to be known as the Hindi movie formula – big-multicasters with larger-than-life heroes, chawanni chaap dialogs, black-and-white linear stories with strong moral messages. All this changed in the 2000s. Multiplexes altered the economics of film making as it allowed the movie makers to target niche educated urban 15–35 audiences with disposable incomes. They wanted movies with a Hollywood look and feel. Everyone was waiting for that one movie which future generations could point to which represented the new “formula” of the 2000s, an international looking movie with a true Bollywood heart. Well, that movie is finally here…

Kaminey portrays a difference between a good and an average director. Vishal Bhardwaj takes all the cliched characters and situations of the 70s movies and puts them into a story which is original. Other directors, when they get inspired or pay a tribute, they simply copy the plot of the originals eg: Om Shanti Om. A lot of credit for Kaminey’s distinctiveness must go to Vishal Bharadwaj who, perhaps more than any of new contemporaries, has his finger on the pulse on the new audience, in the same way that Manmohan Desai, Yash Chopra, David Dhawan and Subhash Ghai once had.

The movie could’ve ended before the climax began when Charlie gives the guitar to Guddu. But don’t know why, all the characters gather in a chawl in Mumbai and the climax goes to party with blazing guns. It feels like suddenly Vishal went for a loo break and Priyadarshan took over…