Kaminey

Good Movie!! Love Shahid Kapoor!! Action, Crime and Comedy movie!

Not a good video quality.

Amazing performance by the great Shahid Kapoor. The most versatile actor of his generation.

Quality was as promised!!!

Excellent movie, but don't buy this version. Video and audio qualities are poor, bottom of the screen is cropped and there's no way to turn the subtitles off.

Director Vishal Bhardwaj--best known for his film adaptations of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' ('Maqbool') and 'Othello' ('Omkara')--breaks new ground in Bollywood with his latest creation: a violent, convoluted, Tarantino-esque trip through the mean streets of Mumbai--stellar soundtrack and all. But the Bard's influence is still apparent in Bhardwaj's work, particularly in the double role played by Shahid Kapoor, that of twins--a symbol of fragmented identity as common in Indian films as it is in Shakespeare's plays--and here the brothers, Charlie and Guddu, are at odds with themselves as well as each other. Kapoor sheds his trademark boyishness and transforms into two rugged, world-weary men--both broken in their own unique way, both in need of redemption. Charlie fixes horse races but loses everything when a jockey double-crosses him. Guddu does street theater with his girlfriend Sweety--who is anything but--to promote AIDS awareness. Played by a de-glammed Priyanka Chopra (who will surely win awards for her performance), Sweety is as indomitable as her crooked family and she bulldozes Guddu into getting her pregnant and marrying her. The estranged brothers both get into trouble with the mob and only they can extricate each other from the desperate mess their lives have become. - The Bollywood Ticket: The American guide to Indian movies (Subscribe: The Bollywood Ticket )

This movie did surprisingly very well and Shahid Kapoor earned well deserved praise. I guess he is close to becoming the next Bollywood hero. He is not bad for another muscle-puffed Bollywood actor. These actors need to decide if they are going to spend time building muscles or getting to the business of acting and doing it well. In this particular case, Shahid Kapoor comes through and does a good job of playing the dual roles of twins - one bad, the other good. It's the story that does not connect the dots for me in a way that makes it understandable or coherent as to how the brothers' personalities are different and why one of them chooses a life of crime. It's not fluid. The dark theme of the film supports the premise of the story I suppose. But again the story and its narration has no substance. It's too bad because this film could have been a lot better. I like Shahid Kapoor by the way and look forward to his next film with Rani Mukherji.

This is the first dramatic role that I have seen Shaid Kapoor act in after seeing Jab We Met and Vivah. What a treat! I can see the influences of Pulp Fiction, Snatch, and Get Shorty. Gritty. Watch it!

Excellent!

Vorweg an alle die Lieder und Tanzeinlagen in Bollywoodfilmen hassen: Hier gibt es kaum davon. Die Musik wird eher wie in Hollywood im Background eingesetzt. So läuft Musik in einer Disco, während einer Hochzeitsfeier usw. Da wird auch schonmal bissl gezappelt, aber bunte Einlagen auf dem Marktplatz sucht man hier vergebens. Was dem Film aber keinen Abbruch tut. Shahid spielt hier eine Doppelrolle. Hab ich ihm im Vorfeld nicht wirklich zugetraut, aber er hat mich eines Besseren belehrt. Er macht es perfekt! Der böse Charlie und der naiv-schüchterne Guddu. Zur Story: Guddu stottert und ist mit der süßen Sweety zusammen. Er arbeitet für eine Nichtregierungsorganisation und betreibt Aufklärung über Aids und Verhütung. Ironischerweise wird seine Freundin schwanger, da sie kein Kondom benutzten. Guddu möchte das Kind weder abtreiben, noch will er Sweety heiraten, da er einen gezielten Plan für sein Leben hat und ein Kind jetzt so gar nicht passt. Er heiratet Sweety trotzdem, weil sie ihm offenbart, dass ihr Bruder ein gefährlicher Gangster ist und ein uneheliches Kind nicht dulden würde. Guddus Zwillingsbruder Charlie hingegen lispelt und arbeitet als Geldeintreiber und Ganove. Er träumt von einem eigenen Wettbüro, lässt sich aber auf krumme Geschäfte ein. Eines Tages geht ein Deal schief und er bekommt ernsthafte Probleme, ein Koffer voller Drogen ist daran nicht ganz unbeteiligt. Wenn die beiden verhassten Brüder auch getrennte Leben führen, so laufen sie sich schließlich doch noch über den Weg und geraten immer tiefer in den Schlamassel. Dies ist kein typischer Gute-Laune-Bollywoodfilm. Und genau darum mochte ich Kaminey so. Leider bleiben die Charaktere teils etwas distanziert und das Drehbuch hat einige Schwächen, aber ich hab dennoch mitgefiebert und mich stets gut unterhalten gefühlt.

Dark, gritty, humorous and 'two smoking barrels'. Not what I was expecting but all the better as I was bemused, confused and generally entertained for the entire film. Awesome soundtrack too.

must see!

My review is not on the film itself (which I think is GREAT!) but on the poorly authored BluRay disc that I just purchased from Amazon. If this is how Moser Baer is going to author BD's then then they could do us all a favor and get out of the BluRay authoring business! This is perhaps a step above VCD quality at best. I have a UTV authored BD of Kaminey for sale in the U.S. region and that's far better than this travesty! I sincerely hope UTV partners with other, more capable companies, to put out quality titles from their catalog on a high definition format. This is definitely not the treatment a brilliant piece of cinema, like Kaminey, deserves. Shame on you!