Maddy..Waiting for your reviews on Kaminey and Sikandar..
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Maddy..Waiting for your reviews on Kaminey and Sikandar..
Jab we met-AGAIN :ashamed:
Kaminey
Priyanka deserves a wow. Shahid did very well in both roles, esp the scene where he speaks about his childhood love to PC :thumbsup: Infact most of the acting was very well done, the maharashtrian guy, tashe etc
Movie was ok :? online reviews and hub praised this movie so much (comparing to QT's movies :shock:). short movie yes and some scenes were well done. Felt something was missing. Flashback scenes and the whole message(purpose) part :banghead:
very predictable story line with no twists as well..
PS : whts with the big hype over Dhan tan na song :? felt it was least attractive...
u will have to wait a bit longer, i'm on trip to pondy :PQuote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
Agreed, word by word.Quote:
Originally Posted by directhit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxtnz...eature=relatedQuote:
Originally Posted by directhit
From here, Shahid has made a giant leap to what he has now done in Kaminey...
:o never noticed/knew it!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
Kaminey - superb........
tension that builds up in first half was too good but second half just pans out as expected.........characterisations super yaa......and shahid, priyanka - very good :D .....climax was a big mess i thought, though he connected various threads and caused a bit of drama, it just ended up as a masala movie climax.......but still it had superior screenplay to most action movies 8-) ......baradwaj :thumbsup:
(plum: nee endha bollywood padam dhaan nalla illa-nnu solra? :lol: )
I started watching a downloaded copy last weekend, oru maadhiri irundhuchu. Avvalvaa pidikkalai, puriyalai. But going to watch it in big screen this weekend.
yea, its very hard to follow - i watched it with subtitles and paused it in quite a few places... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerd
Kaminey has some of the best humour i have seen in recent times.
Aap bhope Baabu or mein tope baabu (something like that) :rotfl:
This one lisps while the other one stutters :lol2:
Gaana mae bolo...
Guddu's ambition chart :lol:
When I watched the film here in first week the audience absolutely loved the film.
apna haath jagannath :rotfl:
And the names chosen were very naughty: (serious-A) Franfif :rotfl2:
Bhope Bhau killing the Bangali brother in the mayhem climax :lol:
Priyanka and Shahid:ti-tu-ti-tu
Lobo: You two :rotfl3:
Lobo's sidekick's reaction when Guddu stammers in the interrogation :lol:
The name Guddu for the good boy - Bharadwajar had me there itself :bow:
More Hindi-literate people say there is more word play in there. udanadiyA madhyamA pass paNnanum.
Appo theater la yosichu parunga!Quote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
:rotfl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
Nitpick: Lisp ippadi irukkaadhu (rare cases la irukkalaam). Generally it will sound like how Spaniards say "Zaragosa"
Lele (Lobo's sidekick) says this, no? Loved his performance. And Shiv Subrahmanyam was just about perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
And naming the bad guy Charlie is of course a teasing reference to the innumerous Roberts and Rosys of yore. Here he's a Sharma!Quote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
After a point, it was tiring. Brangan got it right about excessive wordplay, and 'dog'play. I was expecting verboseness, but it got overtly recurring.
I suppose many of you would have already read this. A lone voice of dissent is always welcome, but I'm puzzled by some of his criticisms. For instance, this excerpt. I wonder if he even got the joke, or is it that he didn't think it was funny?
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There are several problems with Kaminey. First, it is made in the format of a commercial film with all its stereotypical elements -- hero, heroine, villains, songs, romance and fights. The curiosity was how Bhardwaj would use the clichés of the regular film and infuse new meaning into them.
The fact is that Bhardwaj makes a mess of it. The hero and heroine dance and sing in an AIDS-awareness promotion procession. In the next scene they decide on their marriage based on an impending pregnancy.
Attention deficit. Her entry(& the newsbreak) was meant to be ironic. Didn't think much of the choreography (by Raju Sundaram?), I thought the song was a nice way to introduce Guddu, and AIDS awareness is clever way to infuse commercial values.Quote:
he hero and heroine dance and sing in an AIDS-awareness promotion procession.
Yeah that was the baffling part. That's the line that convinces you not to take this guy seriously.
That was instantly funny. And the next scene when he struggles and finally says:
Home Science :rotfl:
I agree, kid-glove, that the wordplay was quite overdrawn at times (like the "you two" line which was very cheesy), a bit underwhelming coming from Vishal Bhardwaj who's such a crackling dialogue-writer. But overall, I thought the dialogue was indeed one of the strong points of the film.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
I guess you-two was written for the likes of me :-)
I found the ruthless villain kinda odd - it didn't work as a joke and couldn't be taken seriously either. Lobo and Lele were impressive in straddling the two different reactions.
The scene were the villain and co enter Bhope's havEli and beat a hasty retreat as Priyanka sprays bullets on them :rotfl2: Unlike anything ever shown before on screen.
A light nitpick, but at no point, it felt 'manufactured' or out of place. I loved the seamless technique, and the fact it did bring out laughs from the crowd without being mind-numbingly stupid, like other Bolly comedies. And yes, he is probably the best dialogue-writer in Hindi cinema (apart from Abbas Tyrewala, maybe). After watching the film, it felt the 'loudest' VB film, I've never felt this way about some of his intense works like Omkara and Maqbool (humour seamlessly infused in these works too).Quote:
Originally Posted by equanimus
PR,
But the thing is, even as you (adhAvadhu nAn!) boo in response to the wordplay, you reconcile a bit because Lele delivers it pretty well, with the right amount of earnestness and emergency. :)
Okay...one thing the early reviews were saying was something like: the movie doesn't stop to explain, you connect the dots yourself etc.
When I watched the movie I was :huh: There weren't any "oh-yeah" moments, were there ?
What were they possibly referring to ?
Ditto, PR. I was also more than a bit perplexed when I read those reviews (but it was after watching the film in my case). There wasn't much interlocking between different strands/parts of the narrative at all. And another thing I found really off the mark was the suggestion that the film moves at a frenetic pace.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
The end of the first half is frenetic.
The hotel, who is killing whom, whose escaping...things happening in two rooms and getting mixed up. That happened faster than average.
ada critics-na apdi ipdi udhaar-A ezhudharadhu dhaan. makkaL adha padichitti, coffee machine kitta kadhai vudaradhu dhaan. ("do you know that swine flu kills less people in a day than ordinary flu" apdinnu sollittu oru mystic smile vuduvAngaLE, same pieces will quote such "frenetic pace", "connect the dots" etc)
There's no hassle to connect the dots. It's a simple film, chronological for most part, and the flashback/dream sequences are moments where the movie actually "stops to explain". :)
Personally, the only 'oh-yeah' (more of a 'oh-yeah, it could be') moment was speculative. Moments after watching the film, I had a reason to believe Charlie had stolen the watch, and father got wrongly convicted. I felt this way because at one point, Charlie's dream has a shot of Mikhail instead of father's cadaver. And I inferred what I did, because Charlie feels responsible for death of Mikhail, the split second decision to loot the guitar and the drug had got into Mikhail. Placing this side-by-side with (my imaginary) scenario of Charlie stealing the watch, and therein Father's death. It's put in place! :P At the end of it all, I felt silly for reading too much into this.
Exactly this piece put me off. Onniyum puriyalai :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
I agree. Right until the salute at check-post, it was frenetic. Then everything is clear, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
Yeah. adhai thaan sollirukaanga pOla.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
But Nerd it slowed down disproporitonately after that right. Recap of opening voice over about the "path that is not taken" before Charlie makes the decision.
I stopped at that point. Also the video quality of the preDVD I downloaded was not all that great. Made plans to watch that on big screen anyway. US-la theater-layum subtitles irukkum :mrgreen:
Yeah. And the style employed here is more like "getting right into the middle of a scene," so to say. (You can see shades of this even in some of Bhardwaj's earlier films.) In general, the film's pace fluctuates quite a bit throughout, with standard genre set pieces interjected with now-trademark Bhardwaj-style languor. Which is why all those statements that the film moves at breakneck speed, gives you no time to stop and think, etc. sound like they're talking about some other film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
Sikkander - childish....
i dont know how they can depict terrorists as some gang mafia.......complete lack of understanding of the subject......movie just fell away in 10 mins for me......madhavan hardly comes in 6-7 scenes but all his scenes were superb 8-) ......he looked very concincing as a army officer.....to madhavan critics who call him "over actor" , heres a movie where he underplays brilliantly....
Daddy Cool (Join The Fun-enal) :banghead: for most of the scenes...
As I expected they used and spolit the classic Boney M's Daddy Cool song... :twisted:
How was KIKK? Have u posted the review?Quote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
yea, i think i posted somewhere.....very predictable screenplay......tammy was gorgeous as usual plus S-E-L :bow: .....i'm just going crazy for the songs :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
not so good news for Kaminey supporters :(
sify says:
Kaminey
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Amole Gupte, Tenzing Nima, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Shiv Subrahmanyam, Hrishikesh Joshi
Director : Vishal Bharadwaj
plus: A well-made film in all respects
minus: Could've had a better culmination
BO verdict : Average
indha padam ellam odalainna endha padam odumaam north-la :x
Pardon my ignorance, what is KIKK??? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
Maddy, cool avatar btw... 8-)
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