Atlast i watched Kaminey movie yesterday. I'm a regular follower of Vishal Bharadwaj's movie. I love his movies. He is one of the most talented movie director and musician. He has dared to abridge the commercial and art movies, which is not an easy task. All his movies Makdee, Maqbool, Omkara, Blue Umbrella and Kaminey have a good story, very tight script, superb plot, complimenting music and powerful performances. Also he has dared to adapt Shakespeare's plays like Mcbeth (Maqbool) and Othello (Omkara) to movies. Beleive me adapting a play or an novel into a movie is a tough task and very risky, either these can be greatest hits like Forrest Gump or Mystic River... or disasters like DaVinci Code ( I have not yet watched Angels and Demons). Moreover adapting Shakesperean plays which were written in 17th Century to contemporary Indian scenario is still more difficult. I have no idea if any of the British or Hollywood movies adapting these plays.
Coming to Kaminey movie I personally felt that it is a saga of brotherhood. Because if you watch it carefully you can see there is more of brothery love, hate and emotional interaction in the movie. We all know that protagonist twins Charlie and Guddu (played by Shahid kapur) are brothers. But also there are three Bengali brothers, fraudulent police officers or the smugglers from Africa. Also if we consider brotherly bond even Bhau (Amol Gupte) and Sweety (Priyanka Chopra) can be also be included in the list. There is hate relation between Charlie and Guddu (which will settle down as expected in the end), close bond of 3 Bengali brothers (sorry, i dont know there name) and oppurtunistic relation between the police officer brothers, African smugglers and Bahau and Sweety. Excluding these blood relations the brotherly relation shared by Guddu and Mikhail (youngest of bengali brothers) is stronger.
I have read in few reviews that Vishal Bhardwaj is India's Tarantino. Which I completly disagree with, because I cannot imagine Tarantino making movies for children like Makdee or Blue Umbrella which explores innocence. I think Vishal can make any kind of movie with same impact.
The movie revolves around old ideology involving pursuit of bad money and many of pursuers loosing life during the process. Charlie, the maverick chasing blind foldedly the dream of becoming a bookie looses his hard earned money in betting which is fixed by some other person. From there the twists and turns starts. The most surprising and positive point of movie is that twists in movie are beleivable. Charlie who beleives in shortcut ends up in lot of trouble.
Guddu, the innocent (only compared to his brother) working I guess in an NGO for AIDS awareness ends up getting his girl friend pregnant. He will get persuaded by his "Home Science" topper girl friend. What I liked is the atmosphere that has been shown where usually NGO people work, Government office or schools or rest house. I personally worked for an NGO for sometime and i can corelate the situations. Even with the comment written on one of the lavatory room {you know what i mean ;) }. Sweety the outspoken Marathi girl who manipualtes Guddu with chosen lies. Guddu is kind of forced to marry Sweety which is preplanned. He is devastated when he comes to know that her brother is Bhope Bahau, the gangster and upcoming politician (which is so true nowadays).
The ongoing regionalism (between marathis and North Indians) has been shown very well in this movie. Bhau the aspiring politician thinks that if his sister marries a non-marathi his political future will be doomed and does all possible things to avert this as Guddu is North Indian. There is a dialogue which i read in one of Jhumpa Lahiri's book "immigrants are like sugar in the milk. If you push them out you will get milk but the bland one". I dont want to discuss regionalism. As a Indian you can stay anywhere in India. These people are mindless who sparks tensions only for their personal gains. Its cheap!
Another story in the movie is about Coccaine smuggling by 2 antinarcotic cops. These guys have done wonderful job. They use the Government provisions efficiently to track down their lost stuff. Guddu, who had stolen the stuff worth 10 crores dreams of high life and shares the secret with Mikhail. Bhau also get involved in the buck and kills Mikhail. Later its usual cat and mouse game with many people loosing life.
The face-off scene between the two twin brothers is good. The secret for their hatred is revealed. Guddu with Coccaine goes to police and Guddu to Tashi. Everything leads to final action scene which is amazingly choreographed. The scene in which Guddu comes back to find his brother is touching.
Movie is amazing. Must watch for eveyone who is 18 or >18 years as it is A certified. Its dark and voilent and Mumbai's monsoon adds to the gloomy atmosphere.
Music is great. Gulzar saab had written some witty lyrics. Gulzar Saab and Vishal is like made for each other. They churn out some great songs whenever they come together. Other advantage of Vishal is that he is a good musican. He does know clerly how the songs and music should sound for his movies and executes it perfectly. Songs of all his movies are amazing.
Last but not the least. When Sweety delivers twins and Guddu informs Charlie over the phone. Charlie tells you lost bet as I told that it will twins. OK. Dont we come to know if there are twins during normal USG scanning? Or Sweety dint get done one?
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Have we lost our Humanity?
On the way to my office everyday I would have a glimpse of a mentally imbalanced woman (I would never call someone mad, we need to respect everyone) from the auto or bus i usually travel. She might be around 60 years (may be the illness would have added few years) untidy, unkempt and would be in her own world, unconcerned about whatever is happening around her. I have never given much thought about her. But the incidence that happened today made me to think about her and us, the so called "normal and mentally balanced people".
Today when my auto was passing through narrow lanes of Shanthi Nagar traffic was stalled for few minutes as some stupid person had parked his car in middle of the road. She was at her usual place, next to a small tea stall. Today i saw that she had a companion, a dog. She had given a morsel of bun to the dog and was scribbling something on an old soiled calender. Three boys not more than 10 years were passing by and one of them pulled the scarf on her head and tried to bully her. At once her companion barked and tried to pounce on those bullies. They scattered and ran away like scared dogs. By that time traffic was cleared and my auto went ahead.
Thats about the incidence. But that incidence made me to think. I felt we are not as compassionate as compared to that dog. The dog tried to defend that lady who had just given a piece of bread an we human tried to bully her. Its like the strong mockering the weak. If we dig our history we do see billions of incidence where the strong and civilized had tried to suppress the voice of weak. For example Eygptians used the slaves to build pyramids, Romans tried to suppress Christianity, British tried to keep many countries under their control including India with force and deciet, Hitler and Nazis planning and executing the Holocaust.... and list is endless (im not an expert on history so listed the events i know). Does we feel happy when the weak is suffering? Does we enjoy when the helpless is in pain? What have we become? Are we living upto our animal instincts? Why do we forget our humane qualities like compassion, tolerance, helping, sympathy, empathy, mercy, pardon etc? If we find it difficult to follow the humane qualities why don't we let the other people and creatures to live as they are? Is it is difficult for us or its the itch that we have to cause the pain to someone?
I know many of them may feel that i have asked too many questions and its philosophical. No, its not. Its too simple. We need to do what is right not just to us but to our heart and soul. Its not big deal. I'm not telling to shelve out all your hard earned money to beggars, homeless, charities or orpahnage (you can do that once you are at par with Mr. Warren Buffet or Mr. Bill Gates). But we have to learn respect all humans, irrespective of their mental condition, physical condition, financial condition or color, caste, ethnicity, religion. The people who have not done any kind of harm to us or our family or country should be respected.
I can write still more but I have a guilt feeling that I dint shouted at those dogs who bullied that lady. I was just seeing the entire event as a silent spectator.........
I would like to tell something which just flashed in my mind. Romans (who were strong) crucified Jesus Christ. But see today whole Roman country is immersed in Christianity. Now tell me who has won and who has lost?
China defeated India in 1963 war (who still dream that they can, which is a joke) but they have surrendered to Gautama Buddha many long years back. Who has actually won?
We may think we are strong but actaully we are not. Thats the truth
Today when my auto was passing through narrow lanes of Shanthi Nagar traffic was stalled for few minutes as some stupid person had parked his car in middle of the road. She was at her usual place, next to a small tea stall. Today i saw that she had a companion, a dog. She had given a morsel of bun to the dog and was scribbling something on an old soiled calender. Three boys not more than 10 years were passing by and one of them pulled the scarf on her head and tried to bully her. At once her companion barked and tried to pounce on those bullies. They scattered and ran away like scared dogs. By that time traffic was cleared and my auto went ahead.
Thats about the incidence. But that incidence made me to think. I felt we are not as compassionate as compared to that dog. The dog tried to defend that lady who had just given a piece of bread an we human tried to bully her. Its like the strong mockering the weak. If we dig our history we do see billions of incidence where the strong and civilized had tried to suppress the voice of weak. For example Eygptians used the slaves to build pyramids, Romans tried to suppress Christianity, British tried to keep many countries under their control including India with force and deciet, Hitler and Nazis planning and executing the Holocaust.... and list is endless (im not an expert on history so listed the events i know). Does we feel happy when the weak is suffering? Does we enjoy when the helpless is in pain? What have we become? Are we living upto our animal instincts? Why do we forget our humane qualities like compassion, tolerance, helping, sympathy, empathy, mercy, pardon etc? If we find it difficult to follow the humane qualities why don't we let the other people and creatures to live as they are? Is it is difficult for us or its the itch that we have to cause the pain to someone?
I know many of them may feel that i have asked too many questions and its philosophical. No, its not. Its too simple. We need to do what is right not just to us but to our heart and soul. Its not big deal. I'm not telling to shelve out all your hard earned money to beggars, homeless, charities or orpahnage (you can do that once you are at par with Mr. Warren Buffet or Mr. Bill Gates). But we have to learn respect all humans, irrespective of their mental condition, physical condition, financial condition or color, caste, ethnicity, religion. The people who have not done any kind of harm to us or our family or country should be respected.
I can write still more but I have a guilt feeling that I dint shouted at those dogs who bullied that lady. I was just seeing the entire event as a silent spectator.........
I would like to tell something which just flashed in my mind. Romans (who were strong) crucified Jesus Christ. But see today whole Roman country is immersed in Christianity. Now tell me who has won and who has lost?
China defeated India in 1963 war (who still dream that they can, which is a joke) but they have surrendered to Gautama Buddha many long years back. Who has actually won?
We may think we are strong but actaully we are not. Thats the truth
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