Kaminey pushes Vishal, Shahid into A-list

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Kaminey pushes Vishal, Shahid into A-list

His directorial debut “Makdee” didn’t rake in the moolah but was widely appreciated. So were “Maqbool”, “The Blue Umbrella” and “Omkara” for their alternative climaxes and literary influences. Now with the huge success of his latest “Kaminey”, versatile filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj has also proved to be a box-office hit.

“Vishal has always been critically-acclaimed but commercially not that successful. For example, ‘Omkara’ was a lazy proposition business-wise… it didn’t even have a good opening. But the opening for ‘Kaminey’ has been huge and it has had a good first weekend too,” trade analyst Taran Adarsh told IANS over phone from Mumbai.

“He has proved his credentials with the movie that he is also commercially viable. At the end of the day everything boils down to how rosy your balance sheet looks because the stakes are very high and Vishal, after this film, has realised that it’s good to make critically-acclaimed films but it’s also necessary to strike a balance,” he said.

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rks 24 August 2009
09:34:30 am

A pretentious film bamboozles critics

“Indian film critics/reviewers are perhaps so starved of good stuff that they have lost the ability to judge a bad movie when it is made by an apparently intelligent filmmaker like Vishal Bhardwaj.”

“First, it is made in the format of a commercial film with all its stereotypical elements — hero, heroine, villains, songs, romance and fights. The curiosity was how Bhardwaj would use the clichés of the regular film and infuse new meaning into them.”

This is funniest
“The fact is that Bhardwaj makes a mess of it. The hero and heroine dance and sing in an AIDS-awareness promotion procession. In the next scene they decide on their marriage based on an impending pregnancy. ”

“The story stutters forward and ends in a blaze of shoot-outs, where all the frames are echoes of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now with a comic flavour. It ends up as a spaghetti gangster film.”

pardesi 24 August 2009
10:16:03 am

“A country that produces a thousand films a year deserves wider debate as to what constitutes cinema. Critical taste has to be rooted in a broader understanding of cinema and society in India and in the world. This important job cannot be left to intellectual rookies.”

But he does not tell us what this broader understanding should comprise of. By just pointing out that Bimal Roy’s Do Bigha Zameen preceded Ray’s Panchali, or that Ray out-shadowed Ghatak, the writer is giving us facts and no analysis. The very things that he wants reviews to do when they review films from makers like Bharadwaj, Kasyap and Mehra, he is unable to do himself.

I do not disagree with a lot of what he says but his arguments have no grounding.

rks 24 August 2009
10:23:19 am

Exactly Pardesi. But I believe there is spectrum of directors in Indian cinema landscape. If you try to measure one from other of different wavelengths, then it creates problem. Why? Because there is no point comparing David Dhawan with Hrishikesh Mukherjee, even if they were making comedies at highest level.

pardesi 24 August 2009
10:32:14 am

I think the problem with cinema reviews is that those who review for the masses do not have the ability to critically look at the cinematic aspects of the film. Those who do, cannot write reviews that the masses can digest. The problem is that we have no Ebert like personality who hones his skills of critique over years of movie watching, but because he came essentially “untrained” in theory, his reviews were meaningful for all. Khalid Mohammad could have been that but he turned reviewing into bitter and biased buffoonery.

Rocky 24 August 2009
11:35:40 am

Saw Newyork last weekend and I quite liked it ! Very well made movie !!

rks 24 August 2009
01:31:39 pm

Fo fweet!

“Yesterday, Shahid Kapoor was detained at a US airport and grilled by an American Customs and Border Protection official. “What’s your name, sir?” asked the official. Suddenly, Shahid broke into a jig and yelled, Dhan Te Nan. The entire airport went into a security alert as cops pulled out their guns and aimed at him. “I’m Fahid Kapoor from the land of fine flu,” he said and then stammered, “Sh..sh..shahid K..k..poor!” “

rks 24 August 2009
01:33:12 pm

Two contradictory reports about Pune halls occupancy

Cinemas open to extra-large Monday crowd
Audiences trickle in to movie theatres

Rocky 24 August 2009
01:50:01 pm

LMAO !!!- great stuff !!

There was another Indian actor who stammered before me last week,” recalled the official and slipped into a flashback about how that actor had reacted on being detained. “Don’t you know me?” he’d asked the official and immediately started to stammer — “I love you, K..k..kiran.”

What’f your ftory?” asked Shahid. The man smirked. “I’m Just One Singh,” he groaned. “The Americans think I’m a security threat because every time I release something, I cause trouble — whether I release terrorists as a minister or release books as ex-minister!”