Review of Kaminey (2009) by Moksh J — 20 Jun 2010
Loved the way the whole movie is paced out. Like the whole twins meeting and fighting sequence, you surely like to believe there are two Shahid's, pretty well done. Piggy Chops is also just fine, she did what director (Vishal) asked her to do.
What I miss out in the movie is why did Vishal choose Ram aur Shyam, twin story, you already know half the story in the first ten minutes of the movie and then you hope that the treatment of the end actually betters towards the end. I would not say disappointing, but it does not live up to the hype.
When you have a movie title like this one, you actually expect at least one villain to stand out, and hare you have too many villains, then you loose the story in building character for each one. Amol Gupte who plays Bhope typically stands out and makes the villain look crazy enough to start admiring the actor, but then others fail to reach there.
Coming back to the twins, I like the character of Shahid both Guddu and Charlie to stand out, like the dialogue in the movie, "Ek Haqlata hai, Doosra (f)Totla hai." In English, "one stammers, the other lisps". This actually makes them stand apart.
The songs are good, and will be played at all shaadis and Bollywood Nights at discs for quiet sometime except for the NGO song Fatak. Loved the song on the Dhan te Nan, thanks to Vishal for this. But then once you see the whole song and not one minute MTV style, you want to close your eyes with jarring lights coming from the screen. Is this the new 3D?
We get the point of emphasis of repeating one scene two times, but more than two times, you can actually make the movie 20 minutes shorter, if you delete all those repeat scenes for emphasis.
Vishal, loved the music of Maachis, loved Omkara and Maqbool, please continue with this, and dont go Ram Gopal Verma style, look at him right now, where he is?
This review of Kaminey (2009) was written by Moksh J on 20 Jun 2010.
Kaminey has generally received positive reviews.
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