Sunday, August 30, 2009

Thif fuckf, ferioufly!

"Past performance may not indicate future performance" I thought this was only applicable to mutual fund industry. It breaks my heart to apply the same to my current favourite director Vishal Bharadwaj. Can't imagine the same guy who made the wonderfully refreshing & innocent "Blue Umbrella", the dark siblings "Maqbool" & "Omkara" each one of which left me mentally heavy coming out of theatre, makes a loosely put together "Kaminey".

Till the first half, this seemed like an attempt to make a run-movie where random plots come together ending in a chase, something like a "Lock, stock & two smoking barrels". But the next half reveals the story seems to revolve around the redemption of "Charlie". It surely would have been better if the director would have stuck to either of these themes.

Apart from "bhope bhau", none of the actors did anything outstanding, mostly average performances. Marketing the movie about lisping and stammering of the two lead characters seemed interesting in the promos but in the end was just plain tacky piece of generating a buzz.

Mr VB, I still haven't given up on ye', get back to doing what you do the best, which is focusing on making movies seriously than marketing them.

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