Movie Review : KAMINEY

Cast: Shahid Kapur, Priyanka Chopra, Amole Gupte

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj

A wild, crazy, fast paced, dark movie coming right out of volcanoes mouth to the Indian audience. Dhan te naan! This is Kaminey for you coming as another full on entertainment bulldozer from the critically acclaimed director Vishal Bhardwaj. Starring Shahid Kapur in double role as Guddu( for his adorable stammering ) and Charlie (with the Fo-fweet speech defect),  the film has been spiced up by the lovable, simple marathi mugli Sweety played by Priyanka Chopra who has gone for a complete image makeover from the oh -so glam model of Fashion to a salwaar kameez clad girl. Charlie and Guddu are completely two opposite personalities, opposite to the extent that their goals in life and the means to achieve them are distant apart like sky and land. While Charlie prefers to go the wrong way i.e. an eye for an eye he dreams of becoming a bookie, on the other hand Guddu is a simple, down to earth guy who dreams like any other common man of settling down and seeing his grandchildren grow in front of him. The background is marked by hazy, dark angles with striking one liners and laced with dark humor making it a typical paisa vasool movie. While Guddu works for an NGO, falls in love with Sweety ,ends up marrying her before he wanted and lands up in big soup with the marathi mogul Bhope (Amole Gupte) who turns out to be Sweety’s brother. On the other hand with his dream of making it big in life through a f-hort cut Charlie lands up in trouble with cops and smugglers after he steals their guitar containing coke worth ten lakh. Life takes a fast paced u-turn when Guddu and Charlie come face to face to save the dreams and life of each other. While Charlie despite of all the past bitterness tries to help out Guddu to save his love story from dying an untimely death, Guddu tries to help Charlie to redeem his old ways and get back to a respectable, honest life far away from the din and dash of the mafia world.The film ends on a wild note where all the charcaters including Bhope , Guddu , Sweety, Charlie, the drug mafia come face to face and with police firing maniacally there is blood, violence ,smoke and dead bodies all around.  The most interesting part is that the film is extremely fast paced to the extent that one cannot spare a second to draw attention to the nachos and pop corn meal box. Vishal Bhardwaj leaves it to the audience to use their intelligence in recalling all the past scenes and link them up together to solve the entire filmy puzzle. With outstanding acting skills exhibited by the main cast , it shows the versatility of Piggy Chops and Shahid Kapur.

So if you are all geared up for an action packed thriller which goes on like a roller coaster ride, this is the film to watch out for.

My rating :  

Prejudiced Education

“History is created by those who are enlightened by the power of knowledge, not by arrogant nerds”

Niyati * and Nitin* were classmate’s and belonged to the commerce stream. Niyati on one hand was an introvert; shy yet a soft spoken girl whereas Nitin on the other hand was an ambivert yet a confident guy. When it came to studies Niyati was an average performer whereas Nitin on the other hand was a bright student who used to excel in academics, was clear about his goal and knew where he wanted to reach in his life. But there was one thing about Nitin, he described himself as a down to earth guy and it reflected in his personality. Never ever he boasted about his achievements, was rather helpful and was actually the apple of the eyes of his teachers. Niyati always teased Nitin for him being “so humble yet good at academics “and used to tell him again and again” next year you are either going to study in St Stephens College or Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC)”. But Nitin neither felt flattered nor uneasy because he knew he didn’t want to continue with commerce rather he wanted to make a niche for himself as a writer. Soon came the most dreaded period in the life of a class twelfth student. The “BOARD EXAMS”. The month of March was a stressful period for all the twelthies and Nitin and Niyati were no exception. And soon by the end of May the results were declared. Nitin scored 90.6% with a 95+ in all the four commerce subjects and on top of it he was the subject topper in his school for Business Studies. But the poor guy scored a mere 69 in English. On the other hand Niyati who was comparatively less focused than Nitin and who accepted things as they came scored 90% which was quite unbelievable for her. While on one hand Nitin surely had a reason to celebrate but he could not. He wanted to do English honors from St Stephens College (Delhi university) which is one of the premier institution of this country and has a long list of famous alumni like Shashi Tharoor (author, peace maker) Konkana Sen Sharma(actor),Montek Singh Ahluwalia(economist) to name a few. But the poor guy didn’t know that despite being a 90 per center he could not study in his dream college.

REASON: The cut off in St Stephens for English honors was 97% and a minimum of 90+ in English was needed which he didn’t have. In fact with a score of 69 in English he couldn’t even make it to the second rung colleges. The only way out was: he either be a Christian or belong to any of the minority community to get admission. On the other hand for Niyati it turned out to be a cake walk. She made it to Shri Ram College of Commerce through the reserved category quota, or perhaps rather than mincing words she belonged to the Scheduled caste and for her the doors of all the top notch colleges were open.