'Kites' - the much hyped movie finally hits the screens after a lot of string stretching. Does it fly high in the air making astonishing moves in the sky? Is it worth watching?
Read on to find out!
The movie starts off with 2 kites flying in the air with Jai (Hrithik) narrating with his comical hindi accent as to how he reached his present 'beggar-like' situation. And then the usual, the camera shifts back and forth from past to present and vice versa.
SPOILER:
The Story is basically about Jai who takes salsa classes in Vegas and marries different different girls on the say of his friend for green card purposes and earns a lot from it. One day, Gina (Kangana Ranaut), his student, expresses her love towards him and Jai refuses at first. But after seeing that Gina is the daughter of a rich casino owner Bob (Kabir Bedi), he quickly falls in love with Gina (though just for the sake of money). And, after the usual interactions of Jai with Gina's family brings out Natasha (Barbara Mori) who is Tony's fiance. Then, its love at first sight for Jai-Natasha and they elope...
Such is the story of this film. Would you dare watching it? I mean when you have such a huge budget, better make a decent film and give the rest of the money to charity rather than spending it on useless stunts and candy floss.
Kangana Ranaut is at her devilish and slutty best whereas Barbara Mori who promised a lot for the 'youth' from the trailers looks stunning and hot but is no way near to the perfect 'diva' yet.
Hrithik Roshan is absolutely scintillating, he is the person to watch this movie for and nothing else. The man definitely has got both style and substance.
Rajesh Roshan's background score is awesome and songs are pretty decent enough except for few background score reminiscences here and there of 'Kaho na Pyaar Hai' and 'Koi Mil Gaya'.
Editing is slick but doesn't seem to raise any 'Ooh!s and Aaw!s'. Screenplay is the usual 'copied from Hollywood' style.
Story - I don't think i have to comment on this anymore. The chase scenes are pretty bad for this big budget and there are timely references to flicks such as 'Bunty aur Babli', 'Catch me if you can' and the usual Hide and seek films.
Anurag Basu's 'Life in a Metro' was a brilliant flick after which he made it to the list of promising directors of Bollywood. But his Kites is definitely a 'Kati Patang' in his career.
Rakesh Roshan - Man, if you do have so much money, please give it to me, there are many other people who are in dire need of it.
On the whole, Kites doesn't even make an attempt to fly 2ft high in the air and is a big miss well away from the target.
'KITES' - A big mistake!
Rating: 1.5/5
Continuing the bollywood trend of 'sick' movies in recent times is Anurag Basu's 'Kites', lets see if Mani Ratnam's 'Raavan' clears the air.
3 comments:
dey pinriye da!! idhalaam piravee liye va illa valanthundiya??
Another negative review!..Its pretty ironical that there is a 85% in Rotten Tomatoes for this film lol!...Btw i haven't seen Life in a Metro..Is the film that good?...I lovvvvvvve the songs...Pritam's best work till date..seriously!
Kites had a completely rudimentary plot filmed in a surreal fashion!..To the people who hated the film,When did the fact that whether a movie was lively(With all the gimmicks and other usual add-ons)or not become a yardstick for judging it?..Oh and Rajesh Roshan's score is a huge high for this film!
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