Kaminey - Fatak Movie

Fatak!! This is the expression which concludes my review for Kaminey.

Tail of twins fighting against their fate and love, this is a new age cinema for Bollywood, it's a perfect black comedy which is dark (Mostly due to the stretch of movie shot in dark) and the comedy is situational not in forced. Be it the stammering of Guddu or Charlie or punching lines of Sweety, the viewers just couldn't get enough of them, they would strive for more. These three protagonists have performed near to perfect interpretation of characters, really treat to watch. I must say that the chemistry between Guddu and Sweety is the oomph factor of this movie. They both look so much into each other that you would get goose bumps seeing them getting closer.

The story is about pursuit for happiness. For Charlie it means being a bookie, for Guddu it's following his life chart he has prepared and pasted on his closet and for Sweety pursue Guddu for getting married to her. These tree pursuits get entangled and produces one hell of a nightmare but eventually they all hit the jackpot. Story gets wild swing when Charlie unknowingly poachers a cop car which has a big surprise waiting in it. This triggers a wild chase, parallelly Sweety who is sister of a local gangster traps Guddu into marriage vows but little does poor Guddu know that this marriage would cost him dearly. Cops and Sweety's bother both chases Charlie and Guddu respectively, the events following are full of blood and confusing plots but as they unfold Charlie and Guddu eventually manages to get better of everyone.

Shahid Kapoor who played Guddu/Charlie did a fantastic job. Quite contrasting double role from usual and surely this wasn't easy to be played at any stretch of imagination. Brilliant effort, he surely has improved a lot from being just a chocolate boy. My pick from the movie is Priyanka. I often thought of her being a charmer which great body and looks but never did I expected her to pull up such a power packed performance as a local Marathi Mumbai chi mulgi. Her portrayal of Sweety is one of the most effortlessly close to real characterisation I have seen in recent past. Music is quite unusually pleasant. It's very raw and pulls the right strings when it strikes.

The biggest setback for the movie is identity crisis, while you would be glued to see three protagonist running around, none of other character would leave any lasting impression on your mind, partially due to all of them are relatively unknown stars and although they have also played their part with equal panache but still leaves a viewer disappointed. There is a problem in second half as it crawls and sometimes becomes eventually impossible to understand which way things are heading, not because of the plot but because of disarray of weaving the parallel stories together. Writer and director failed to do this successfully. While we get close to end; things get rather absurd than interesting. the movie loses it's track in the penultimate gang war, this could have been totally avoided.

Still the movie is a definite watch, Vishal Bharadwaj is a great director, he makes his characters so alive and leaves no void for improvement in them, be it Maqbul, Langda Tyagi or this time Sweety. He although is always inspired from Hollywood but surely makes his flicks Bollywood cults. Had the second part was little more impressive this movie would have been a definite Pulp Fiction of Bollywood.

The Path Of Recovery?

All the markets in world are seem to be in sync as they are now reflecting the same mood all around. Few days back we saw overwhelmingly sharp decline in markets across the tables, who was driving this drift: China. Does this means that the next bubble going to crash the world economy will be China?

China in last one week has released very depressing housing and credit data. It has been heard that China has spent as much as 1.5 trillion $ in it's credit market in last one year alone fighting the recession which is three times of entire Indian equity market volume. US has lost over 4 trillion $ in last one fiscal year and has been on path of recovery ever since. Until now only US market was considered as the global parameter to gauge the health of world economy but in last one year the tide has shifted to less known economies, China to be precise. Until now China had hold it's economic balance sheet to be unveiled but it does seem quite evident now that the next big thing in the world economy is China.

Once called safe heaven Dollar has taken most of beating by this economic downturn and is one of the most vulnerable underlying assets causing the money flow to get diverted to safe investments which is eastern and south Asian markets, China and India to name a few. This is one of the key reason why US is not on a galloping path of recovery. Quite rightly so since the equilibrium in the world economy was need of the hour. One stand alone economy shouldn't be given the driving seat. In next six months outlook seems to be more inclined towards Asian markets. The mood here would decide the turnarounds in the world economy. If the US economy is able to provide a breather from it's export, retail and housing market then it may be possible that the money flow would be diverted again to dollar but until then we only need to wait for non-financial data from US to bring back the confidence of global investors.

The big question which can be asked then would be: are we on the path of recovery and is the recession over?

I think we are on the way of recovery, eastern Asia will definitely be better than west like US and UK. Surely there will be a big bounce in next 6 months barring US. The conflicting noises that China situation is going to get worsen would be only confirmed once they provide their next set of exporter and production data . Chinese economy is recovering on a rate of 7.5% , second highest in world. This is still a fragile recovery though and the policy makers are not leaving any stone unturned and now they are tightening the screws this time. The bond and currency market around the world seems to be in better shape indicating that currently there might not be any drastic policy change in the economic dynamics in any global economy which is helping the commodities to sail smoothly.

The turbulence in the equity market every now and then could be a problem due to the liquidity and short covering along with profit booking by the investors, this should not trigger any panic in market though as market has matured tremendously in this 2 year old recession cycle. No index in the market is an exception and all have recuperated well in past six months or so. I see better future in Tech and commodities in next twelve months, betting on old & gas sector could also come fruitful. The global majors like Microsoft, Apple etc are going to grow tremendously and leading the pack would be google should their new operating system is a hit. What market would do people have been saying that correction in inevitable from now on. Hedge funds are bidding big on market crash causing panic every now and then in the investors but I still see things getting leveling up and stabilizing.

To me world seems to be healing but the it will take a while until we can breath fresh air of economy.

Love Is Eternal...Not Aaj-Kal

We are now living into a materialistic world where even the relationships are now built on calculation...but does that mean that the essence of true feelings have gone obsolete?
Finding answer of such trivial question would take you a long time unless you want to see a 2+ hours movie called “Love Aaj kal”. I am sure now the bells would not ring but definitely in time to come people would realize that the message delivered by the movie is much deeper than what it feels from the first look.

This movie is a journey of love from past to present, to convey the message that something doesn't change with the time and at the end one has to follow his/her heart because that's what is the real pursuit of happiness.

The story of movie revolves around two protagonists, one from the present and one from past. Only with the glitch of time -frame change, both the stories follows the same path and ultimately ends at the very point where essentially a true love story should end, A happy ending. The only difference in both the stories is the way realization happen, in the one of past the realization is much of obvious where as in the present it's quite melodramatic yet very close to a real life incident which you could see around.

Yet after being such serene,pure and refreshing what this movie lacks is the attachment with the characters, you would not be able to connect to the characters as you should, may be the soul of it is missing due to lack of chemistry between the lead actors Saif and Deepika.

I wouldn't say they didn't perform well but still I was kind of disconnect to them though I felt more connected to story of past..may be because I still have my faith on age old love sagas :-). I guess the chemistry between Saif-Deepika didn't work as well as it was expected.

Performance wise, I guess Deepika was standout of the entire cast, she played her role of straight headed career oriented woman with much of ease and really was completely involved in her role (May be because her traits belongs to the same). Saif was looking much of a confused person not only because his role demanded it but also because may be he was not hitting the right cord along with Deepika. Role played by Rishi Kapoor is fantastic, he was the best fit for the role and the urge, excitement and emotions he portrayed were so true to be real that it always made you feel it was coming right from heart and you would want to follow them.

Music is really peppy and catchy, few tunes are foot tapping and there is a very nice soft song “Dooriyan” which would slowly intoxicate you. Cinematography is also very nice and so as direction, the best thing of direction is that Imtiaz never does copy of anyone's style but his improvisation is so nice that he somewhat creates a cult, be it “Socha Na Tha” or “Jab We Met”.... you would find people relating themselves to the characters, I am sure this would continue after Love Aaj kal as well. He always come to characters not larger than life but so true to life, absolute treat to watch his movies.

All in all this is a good bet to spend your money.