Cruising at 80 miles/hr on the 101 freeway at 1:47 am in Los Angeles on a Sunday morning listening to the Kaminey soundtrack after watching it just 24 hours back. Sigh, just beautiful, there is something so relaxing about driving, its like the whole world leaves me alone, my body goes into auto-pilot and I let my mind go...
Kaminey: as the music takes me back through the film...
The shot where Charlie stands between 2 local trains screaming in opposite directions, with his voice over "ye life badi kutti cheez hai"
The shot where Charlie innocently dances in heavy rain "Fider man, Fider man...!" near the rail tracks. Mumbai never looked so larger than life
I am a sucker for chase sequences; there is one very beautifully shot in a hotel. Action like it should be. Nobody was flying, hero was not all powerful, the bad guys weren't all stupid,even gravity & physics were not disregarded and it was still gritty; Loved the way the camera moves, drags the viewer into the action. Brilliant!
Priyanka Chopra, just loved her character, loved her dialogues, loved everything she did in the movie. Starting when she reveals to Guddu that shes pregnant, 15 minutes that follow is probably the best on screen romance I have seen in Hindi cinema recently. She screams at him in marathi "jzaa mug!!" (go to hell!) and then starts to storm off, and then turns around in 3 seconds and runs back. :) Lovely
Bhope's side-kick who has been sent to beat the couple up, says to Bhope on the phone "bhau, par bade pyaare lag rahe the dono..."; beautiful, the goon has a heart :)
Amol Gupte as 'Bhope Bhau', almost everything he says and does is memorable. He plays this racist, cold-hearted, selfish leader. Its so hard to believe that this is the same man who wrote the sensitive 'Taare Zameen par'. My favorite scene is when he breaks into Charlie's house. "Kya tum teen bhai hote toh mooch ukhad lete meri?" lol
Shahid Kapoor's Guddu character stammers uncontrollably in Police remand because he is so scared during interrogation. The cop asks him to sing his answers and it works. :)
Finally the heart-wrenching title track, shown with a very gloomy, cloudy Mumbai slum close to the railway track as the background. I have lived in Mumbai, and this is one of those sights that almost everyone who lives in the city has learned to ignore in their minds, because its too heart breaking to acknowledge. "Meri arzoo kamini, mere khwaab bhi kaminey, ek dil se dosti thi, yeh huzoor bhi kaminey"; Gulzar saab, take a bow...
There are many more as I will discover when I watch it again and again in the future. I have started a new journey with this Classic. Maqbool and Omkara are still going strong.... :)
Kaminey: as the music takes me back through the film...
The shot where Charlie stands between 2 local trains screaming in opposite directions, with his voice over "ye life badi kutti cheez hai"
The shot where Charlie innocently dances in heavy rain "Fider man, Fider man...!" near the rail tracks. Mumbai never looked so larger than life
I am a sucker for chase sequences; there is one very beautifully shot in a hotel. Action like it should be. Nobody was flying, hero was not all powerful, the bad guys weren't all stupid,even gravity & physics were not disregarded and it was still gritty; Loved the way the camera moves, drags the viewer into the action. Brilliant!
Priyanka Chopra, just loved her character, loved her dialogues, loved everything she did in the movie. Starting when she reveals to Guddu that shes pregnant, 15 minutes that follow is probably the best on screen romance I have seen in Hindi cinema recently. She screams at him in marathi "jzaa mug!!" (go to hell!) and then starts to storm off, and then turns around in 3 seconds and runs back. :) Lovely
Bhope's side-kick who has been sent to beat the couple up, says to Bhope on the phone "bhau, par bade pyaare lag rahe the dono..."; beautiful, the goon has a heart :)
Amol Gupte as 'Bhope Bhau', almost everything he says and does is memorable. He plays this racist, cold-hearted, selfish leader. Its so hard to believe that this is the same man who wrote the sensitive 'Taare Zameen par'. My favorite scene is when he breaks into Charlie's house. "Kya tum teen bhai hote toh mooch ukhad lete meri?" lol
Shahid Kapoor's Guddu character stammers uncontrollably in Police remand because he is so scared during interrogation. The cop asks him to sing his answers and it works. :)
Finally the heart-wrenching title track, shown with a very gloomy, cloudy Mumbai slum close to the railway track as the background. I have lived in Mumbai, and this is one of those sights that almost everyone who lives in the city has learned to ignore in their minds, because its too heart breaking to acknowledge. "Meri arzoo kamini, mere khwaab bhi kaminey, ek dil se dosti thi, yeh huzoor bhi kaminey"; Gulzar saab, take a bow...
There are many more as I will discover when I watch it again and again in the future. I have started a new journey with this Classic. Maqbool and Omkara are still going strong.... :)
I just can't wait to watch this movie!
ReplyDeleteYea, I wanna watch it again :)
ReplyDeleteHi Onkar
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great movie !
I watched it, I watched it, I watched it... :D
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