Hollywood to Takkar Deti Bollywood Film : Kaminey

*ing Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Amole Gupte, Shiv Subramaniam, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Tenzing Nima, Hrishikesh Joshi and Deb Mukherjee; Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
First it was promos of the movie where Shahid seen pronouncing ‘f’ instead ‘p’, thereafter its highly infectious ‘Dhan Te Nan’ number, the movie caught attention of movie goers. The curiosity and hype began building up rapidly. It was not very unusal it happened with so many other movies also. But the real test is seeing the movie. I saw the movie on internet. Promos made my expectations high but I feel that Vishal has delivered a product which can compete with best of Hollywood.
The film narrates the tale of twins Charlie (Shahid) and Guddu (Shahid again) who are poles apart in behaviour and lifestyle. While Guddu the good boy works for a NGO and aims to rise the corporate ladder, Charlie believes in taking shortcuts and ‘chota shortcuts’ to achieve his get rich quick dream. Though they haven’t met each other in years, their lives get entangled as both get ended up in major screw up in their personal lives. What happens then on and how many misunderstanding lead to further chaos forms the rest of the plot.
I do not want to spoil your fun, revealing anything more about the movie will spoilyour fun. There are plenty of sequences which will remain forever etched in your cinematic memory right from Guddu and Charlie’s face off to almost every scene featuring Bhope Bhau (Gupte) and Tashi (Tenzing) to the Dhan Te Nan song and the crazy finale. However, the climax appears to long with the endless shooting going on and on between the multiple gangs. And the songs don’t really appear well placed. But these are minor flaws.
Shahid Kapoor, who was desperately needing a hit, delivers a knock out performance in a double role. Most importantly he succeeds in making us believe his two characters are completely different persons. Surprisingly, Priyanka Chopra also outshines,her Marathi dialogue delivery is good, she managed to catch the small nuances perfectly. Playing Charlie’s idol, Mikhail, Chandan Roy Sanyal’s doped out act is instantly likeable. Marathi stage and cinema actor Hrishikesh Joshi played Lele a corrupt cop, very convincing and so is Shiv Subramaniam playing his associate. Back after a long hiatus veteran actor Deb Mukherjee is menacing. Tenzing Nima as Nepali don, Tashi is a hoot. Amongst the crowd of the huge ensemble cast, Amole Gupte manages to create a huge impression with his chilled out Bhau act. His one-liners will have you rolling on the floor laughing.
Kaminey is basically Vishal’s movie, his impressions are in all the frames, in fact he is one up to his previous works, it is also an excellent team effort with superb camerawork by Tassaduq Hussein, razor sharp editing by Meghna Manchanda Sen and gritty action by Shyam Kaushal. Vishal Bharadwaj has managed to strike a sixer donning multiple hats as a director, producer, singer, music director, screenplay and dialogue writer. Yes, the treatment of Kaminey is on the lines of Quentin Tarantino and Guy Richie’s caper movies but it is not to be missed.