Kaminey

Ok, so I wrote more about Love Aaj Kal than I had intended to. I promise I won't do the same for Kaminey. Quite frankly, there's a lot more you can say about a not-so-great movie than there is you can say about a great one. Love Aaj Kal falls in the first category; Kaminey, the latter.

Kaminey was an excellent movie. Amazing. Awesome. Mindblowing. And, it had a narrator! I really like movies with a narrator. It gives the movie a little perspective, and when the narrator is speaking, the audience never gets bored. (Are you listening, Mr. Imtiaz Ali?) Yes, Kaminey was a bit confusing, but after watching it twice, I don't think I missed anything. Two things are very important while watching Kaminey. 1) You have to be alert. 2) You have to be into these kind of gangster/druglord movies. Both of these actually go hand-in-hand -- if you're not into these kind of movies, you'll doze off and won't pay attention.

Ok so the movie wasn't all that confusing. What did people not get? For one, after Guddu and Charlie fight and Guddu walks away with the guitar, he sees Bhope's men dead on the ground. This is where the audience got confused - who killed them? Come on people, pay attention! Let's rewind a bit -- when Guddu and Bhope's men reach Charlie's house, they see Mikhail dead on the hammock. Guddu looks around, finds Charlie with the guitar, they fight, Guddu walks away and sees Bhope's men dead. In the scene right after this, we see a shot of Charlie's house and Mikhail is no longer there. (Blink and you'll miss it). What does this most probably mean? Whoever killed Bhope's men also took Mikhail's body. Fast forward a bit to the part where everyone is at Bhope's house, and we see the Bengali brothers enter the scene with Mikhail's body in the car. Therefore, the Bengali brothers took Mikhail from Charlie's house, and they probably also killed Bhope's men. Now come on guys, is it really that confusing?

Any glitches in the movie? Not many, just a couple small ones. 1) Vishal Bhardwaj, please stick to Hindi only in your movies! 2) The climax was a bit cliche. They should have at least let Charlie die. Making the audience think he died but then telling us he didn't was a bit too filmy, especially for a movie that dared to be different.

Shahid Kapoor was amazing in this movie. He was never a bad actor; he always knew how to act. In fact, he was as good as Guddu as he was in all his other movies. It's the character of Charlie which should definitely land Shahid all the Best Actor awards. To be honest, the second Charlie says, "Life bari kutti cheez hai," I knew that not only would this movie be amazing but Shahid's acting will be intense.

Priyanka was alright. Not sure why she signed the movie though, it was clearly a Shahid Kapoor movie all the way.

Scenes that stand out:

1) Guddu and Sweety talking at the gas station.

2) Bhope's men crash Guddu and Sweety's wedding

3) Sweety tells Guddu she's pregnant

4) Bhope murders Mikhail

5) Sweety takes a gun and starts shooting randomly (climax)

6) Chase scene at the hotel

7) Charlie deciding whether or not to keep the guitar

8) Charlie's narration at the beginning

9) The flashback sequences (Guddu/Charlie's father's death)

10) The train scene

My rating: 10 out of 10

Go for it if you're into these kind of movies.

Coming up next: My expectations of forthcoming releases