Kaminey redefines "masala" movie
Fasten your seat belts and get ready for thrill ride, one of the best caper movies made in Mumbai. Kaminey breaks the classic "Bollywood masala" stereo type and creates it's own definition of "masala". In this masala the basic ingredients (romance, action, comedy, emotions and songs) are still there but the way they are mixed and presented makes your taste buds wanting for more. Thanks mainly to Vishal Bhardwaj, the multi talented director, who before Kaminey had made children films, films on Shakespearean and Ruskin Bond literature, but with this film he proves his metal in the "commercial" cinema format (Second biggest hit this year).
This movie has multiple plots running in parallel, all of them converge on twin brothers Charlie, who has a lisp and Guddu, who stammers (Shahid Kapoor). Charlie works with the bad guys and dreams of making quick money while Guddu, the only nice guys in the film, has planned his life in advance and is happy. The trouble starts, or you could say the thrill starts when Charlie bumps into corrupt cops and Sweety (Priyanka Chopra) disrupts Guddu's planning, all this take you on a roller coaster ride ands ends in an apocalyptic ending. The speech defects of the brothers and some of the wackiness of the crazy supporting cast gives the comic relief from the fast pace of the movie.
Shahid Kapoor is the star of the movie, he has stepped out of his lover boy image and given a great performance, Priyanka Chopra in a de-glamorized Marathi girl is great. The entire supporting cast is one of the highlights of the movie. Considering that almost the entire support cast is made up no name actors, it is great feat by the Vishal Bhardwaj. Watch out for Bhope (Amol Gupte, writer of Taare Zameen Pe) and Mikhail (Chandan Roy Sanyal), Charlie's partner in crime.
Dhan-Te-Nan, the song, is another star of the movie whenever it comes up in the movie it gives you an adrenaline rush. Gulzar's lyrics as usual are very poetic and thought provoking. All the songs are mainly in the background and do not hinder the flow of the movie. On the whole this movie belongs to Vishal Bhardwaj, he is the director, producer, co-writer and the music director. Cinematography by Tassaduq Hussain is very raw and keeps the pace of the movie alive.
In future if my masala movies are going like this I am ready to lap it up. In the movie there is dialog "Life gets screwed up not by the path you take but by the path you did not take", so folks take the right path and watch the movie :-).
