Fo Fweet....Kaminey

There may be two ways to get success in life--Short Cut and Chhota Short Cut, but to produce a movie like Kaminey there is not any short cut. And Certainly, Vishal Bhardwaj knows it. You need brain like Vishal, brawn like Shahid, beauty like Priyanka and beliigerence like Amol to have a movie like Kaminey before your eyes. How a simple and regular bollywood story can be developed into a classy(at least quasi-classy) spicey movie, Kaminey is example of that. Throughout the film, your gaze sticks to the screen in front of you and your brain remains busy predicting and speculation 'what next'? But this very pace is the beauty of the film and when you finish the exercise, you get the full worth of your money with a new and energetic experience. 

                            

                             This tale of twin brothers presents before you many characters who seem to come from around ourselves with a difference that almost all of them are in their crude form. They do not pretend to adopt the extremes only to have their goals completed. E.g., the sweet and simple Guddu does not hesitate to fight his brother Charlie to get the cocaine in order to complete his love stroy with Sweety. Similarly, Charlie finds it appropriate to use Sweety as his shield to get rid of her brother Bope's clutch. And, Sweety is ready to kill her own brother to save Guddu. So all the characters look real whether they be Bope, Tashi & Mikhail or Guddu, Charlie & Sweety. Vishal has been successful in developing all the characters of the film- both heroic or villainous. 

                             It is very important to discuss the performance of actors in the film. Shahid has got the opportunity to show his skills in double role here and he has done justice. Priyanka is just great as Sweety, the contemporary middle class Marathi mugli, who loves Guddu more than Mumbai, Chennai or Bengaluru. She makes you believe in her character with conviction as well as class. Similarly, Amol Gupte has portrayed handsomely his character of a corrupt and opportunist politician, for whom the Mee Marathi Manoos agenda is merely for political mileage and power and has nothing to do with the ideology. 

                          Cinematography is brilliant, background score is perfect and scripting is tight. The editing is done is such a brilliant way that you never feel any scene useless or extra long. But, there are some weak points too. In the climax, you find it unnecessary that all the characters are gathered at one place and fight each other and at last the good emerges as victor over evil.  Also, you want a decent treatment with the characters who develop during the movie. Anyway, these weak things do not lessen your joy while watching the film. In the nutshell Kaminey is full Paifa Vafool.