Genre: Romance/ Drama/ Action
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Barbara Mori, Nicholas Brown, Anand Tiwari, Kiran Bedi, Kangana Ranaut
At the outset I would like to thank Mr. Masand, Anuradha Chopra and the rest of the reputed film critic elitists, for having given such generous reviews to such a disastrous film - it gives me the opportunity to pen my few words and make this post worth much more of a read than if I were just agreeing to their take on it.
About the movie, I can tell you plain and simple - don't watch it!! Not in the hall and if you have really nothing better to do when the DVD arrives, you can catch a peek but you won't miss much even if you miss it. I say this with quite a heavy heart though, since I myself had much expectations from what was touted to be the successor to 3 idiots (even the thought causes anguish). All this talk of the movie being a brave attempt to extend the boundaries of a typical Bollywood movie is pure balderdash and I can't for the life of me understand why the established film critics are so desparate to give this movie a chance.
Sure the Hritik-Barbara pair sizzle on the screen and the chemistry is quite obvious in each frame but the movie needs to be supported by a plot line which simply isn't there. While you sit and watch one disjointed scene follow another, random car chases and action sequences, you can't help but wonder of what could have been!! Two strangers, neither speaks the others language share an invisible bond that attracts them towards each other despite the risks and dangers of doing so. Top it up with the fact that they are both otherwise, street-smart hustlers who are only looking for a way to get rich overnight and not your reflective and emotional couple who would otherwise believe that love is beyond boundaries. The possibilities were simply endless...the constant conflict that each found themselves in, could have been so wonderfully captured, wherein the audience gets to see each, slowly but reluctantly follow their heart to unite despite the dangers fraught with doing so. No, instead you get to see, a mish mash of sequences roughly put together..random bank robberies..car chases...constant bickering between Barbara and Hritik..yet somehow, somewhere there is supposed to undeniably, be love underneath it all. One moment they are worrying about survival while in the very next they manage to steal lots of money and are singing and dancing about it. The constant flashback mode (read Memento, I probably shouldn't bring up the name of such a masterpiece to this drivel) only succeeds in confusing the audience further and half the time wondering what sequence is actually supposed to be present-day!!
What saves this movie (at least attempts to do so) is the way it has been shot..breath taking landscapes and amazing camera work are probably the best takeaway from Kites.
It pains me to think that some director in Hollywood actually thought that this movie was worth making an English version of..Bollywood could easily have had a better advertisement than this farce.
If after all this, you still feel this movie is worth it..well, its your money..I'd ask for a refund if I could...
About the movie, I can tell you plain and simple - don't watch it!! Not in the hall and if you have really nothing better to do when the DVD arrives, you can catch a peek but you won't miss much even if you miss it. I say this with quite a heavy heart though, since I myself had much expectations from what was touted to be the successor to 3 idiots (even the thought causes anguish). All this talk of the movie being a brave attempt to extend the boundaries of a typical Bollywood movie is pure balderdash and I can't for the life of me understand why the established film critics are so desparate to give this movie a chance.
Sure the Hritik-Barbara pair sizzle on the screen and the chemistry is quite obvious in each frame but the movie needs to be supported by a plot line which simply isn't there. While you sit and watch one disjointed scene follow another, random car chases and action sequences, you can't help but wonder of what could have been!! Two strangers, neither speaks the others language share an invisible bond that attracts them towards each other despite the risks and dangers of doing so. Top it up with the fact that they are both otherwise, street-smart hustlers who are only looking for a way to get rich overnight and not your reflective and emotional couple who would otherwise believe that love is beyond boundaries. The possibilities were simply endless...the constant conflict that each found themselves in, could have been so wonderfully captured, wherein the audience gets to see each, slowly but reluctantly follow their heart to unite despite the dangers fraught with doing so. No, instead you get to see, a mish mash of sequences roughly put together..random bank robberies..car chases...constant bickering between Barbara and Hritik..yet somehow, somewhere there is supposed to undeniably, be love underneath it all. One moment they are worrying about survival while in the very next they manage to steal lots of money and are singing and dancing about it. The constant flashback mode (read Memento, I probably shouldn't bring up the name of such a masterpiece to this drivel) only succeeds in confusing the audience further and half the time wondering what sequence is actually supposed to be present-day!!
What saves this movie (at least attempts to do so) is the way it has been shot..breath taking landscapes and amazing camera work are probably the best takeaway from Kites.
It pains me to think that some director in Hollywood actually thought that this movie was worth making an English version of..Bollywood could easily have had a better advertisement than this farce.
If after all this, you still feel this movie is worth it..well, its your money..I'd ask for a refund if I could...
