Movie Review - Kaminey

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Thanks to the boycott of the cinema industry by the multiplexes I was badly deprived of my regular fix of movies. However since their reconciliation I barely got time to see any. The long hiatus was broken by Vishal Bhardwaj’s latest offering. Both his earlier movies were based on Shakespeare’s plays. While Maqbool was good, Onkara was a brilliant take on Othello. How does one live up to that kind legacy? Well he changed the rules of the game and smacks it in your face.
So you have a hero, rather two of them with speech disorders. One lisps and the other stutters. Shahid Kapoor with his cute smile and chiseled body has delivered on both counts. The story is about these two twins who are leading completely different lives. The stuttering bro, Guddu, is a simple guy working for an NGO spreading the message of safe sex and trying to make an honest living. Priyanka is his love interest who declares she is pregnant in her very first scene. They decide to get married immediately but there is one little problem. The lady’s brother is a psyco gangster and a wannabe politician and he doesn’t quite like the idea of some dude knocking up his sister.
The other twin, Charlie, is a small time hoodlum who fixes horse races and dreams of becoming a legitimate bookie one day. One day he puts all his cookies in one jar and loses his life’s earning when the manipulated jockey double crosses him. In his quest for revenge he gets involved in a fight with the rival gangsters and while escaping he unknowingly steals the vehicle of Anti Narcotic cops who are also moonlighting as drug dealers. There is a stash hidden in the jeep which becomes a mean of redeeming his recent losses.
The lives of the twins who have not been involved in each other’s lives for years, presumably because of ideological differences undergo an unexpected change when Charlie is picked up by the psyco gangster and Guddu is arrested by the Narco cops. The Bollywood switch, yes, but the events then unfold leading to an awesome surreal climax. The entire narrative of the movie is so taut that if you blink you might miss the sequence of events. This is no Shakespearean drama but VB has managed to make a masala action flick look like a classic. But for the fact that at times it was difficult to understand the Bengali and Marathi dialogues I could barely detect a weakness in the movie. However I would dedicate my Oscar to the editor for making a relentless entertainer.
Priyanka Chopra looks like a million bucks without her makeup and within her Sarojani Nagar rehri market oh so ordinary attire. Why can’t all women look like the Miss Simplicity herself? Dream on Bawa boy, it’s not taxable. Shahid’s carved body adds menace to the high voltage action. The finale of the movie and the composition of the action sequences is easily one of the best that Bollywood has offered so far. Dhan te naan and go watch.