And I watched Kites today.. First day first show. Not intentional. I was planning to watch a movie today, came to Thalassery, nothing interesting was there... Pappi Appacha.... watched and got royally screwed... Pokkiri Raja, Alexander the Great... no use of watching them... Katha thudarunnu.... already watched....a Thai Tsunami movie.... cannot watch a B movie in theater.... Only new Malyalam release is "Mummy and Me" {another movie being made is called "Yakshiyum Njaanum"- Yakshi (a lady demon in a white sari roaming around killing people) and Me. Coincidence?}
Any way I dont want to see that.. Because Kunchako Boban is there in it... I dont like Hrithik Roshan, I hate his wooden acting, but I detest Kunchako Boban... I may go to that movie if some one says it is an exceptionally good one and Kunchako is only doing a guest role in it... or better he dies in climax... still better he dies some time before that... best being before titles start... Like they do in old Amitabh Bachchan action flicks where his father, invariably any bad actor of the times, is killed before title starts, so that conveniently Amitabh can take his revenge by the time of end titles and save the movie from the hamming of the actor who happens to be his father in the movie....
To make it all short, by 11:30 I found myself parted with my Rs 35 (thats what I love about Thalassery.. ticket rates are too less here...) in old Liberty theatre... waiting for the movie to start..
Now about Kites... to tell the truth it started very slow and uninterestingly.... when a romance scene was going on, I was busy planning what I should write in this post which is a bad sign for any movie. But then things started looking good.... The story started picking speed some time before the break and turned suddenly to an action thriller to my surprise... lot of chases and gunshots....
It is the story of a Dance instructor (the reason is to show off Hrithik and it is no way important to story) who marries immigrant girls, helping them to be eligible for green card and earns commission. He succeeds in wooing a rich man's girl (Kabir bedi and Konkana) for money. Later he learns that her brother's (a mean man with a badly trimmed beard with an even worse Hindi) fiancee is a girl whom he had married recently (Barbara Mori), and she is also in the game for money. Things starts brewing between them(evidently because they drink lot of champagne when together) and they decides to elop... Now this is expected because story is written by Rakesh Roshan who made a married Madhuri run away with a mute Shahrukh in a dump Koyla... But again praise to the director... we get lot of good moments on their way making the movie worth watching... best ones being their language barrier, Hrithik speaks only Hindi and English, while Barbara even kisses in Spanish. The climax is well built with some wonderful and captivating editing...
Well, all praise to the director Anurag Basu, who showed much restraint in not turning it to
an art movie or into a Rambo ripoff, ensured that half the movie is shot in slow motion so that it won't be over before interval and never goes overboard with Hrithik, Barbara and others (he should get a best director award atleast for not giving Kangana a bigger role) Kites is a well made movie but you have to give some patience, its much slower than you can imagine... and not lose heart initially by a wooden Hrithik in romantic parts, it could have been worse, thank God it was not Shahrukh...
Any way I dont want to see that.. Because Kunchako Boban is there in it... I dont like Hrithik Roshan, I hate his wooden acting, but I detest Kunchako Boban... I may go to that movie if some one says it is an exceptionally good one and Kunchako is only doing a guest role in it... or better he dies in climax... still better he dies some time before that... best being before titles start... Like they do in old Amitabh Bachchan action flicks where his father, invariably any bad actor of the times, is killed before title starts, so that conveniently Amitabh can take his revenge by the time of end titles and save the movie from the hamming of the actor who happens to be his father in the movie....
To make it all short, by 11:30 I found myself parted with my Rs 35 (thats what I love about Thalassery.. ticket rates are too less here...) in old Liberty theatre... waiting for the movie to start..
Now about Kites... to tell the truth it started very slow and uninterestingly.... when a romance scene was going on, I was busy planning what I should write in this post which is a bad sign for any movie. But then things started looking good.... The story started picking speed some time before the break and turned suddenly to an action thriller to my surprise... lot of chases and gunshots....
It is the story of a Dance instructor (the reason is to show off Hrithik and it is no way important to story) who marries immigrant girls, helping them to be eligible for green card and earns commission. He succeeds in wooing a rich man's girl (Kabir bedi and Konkana) for money. Later he learns that her brother's (a mean man with a badly trimmed beard with an even worse Hindi) fiancee is a girl whom he had married recently (Barbara Mori), and she is also in the game for money. Things starts brewing between them(evidently because they drink lot of champagne when together) and they decides to elop... Now this is expected because story is written by Rakesh Roshan who made a married Madhuri run away with a mute Shahrukh in a dump Koyla... But again praise to the director... we get lot of good moments on their way making the movie worth watching... best ones being their language barrier, Hrithik speaks only Hindi and English, while Barbara even kisses in Spanish. The climax is well built with some wonderful and captivating editing...
Well, all praise to the director Anurag Basu, who showed much restraint in not turning it to
an art movie or into a Rambo ripoff, ensured that half the movie is shot in slow motion so that it won't be over before interval and never goes overboard with Hrithik, Barbara and others (he should get a best director award atleast for not giving Kangana a bigger role) Kites is a well made movie but you have to give some patience, its much slower than you can imagine... and not lose heart initially by a wooden Hrithik in romantic parts, it could have been worse, thank God it was not Shahrukh...
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