Rating: ****

Since its promos were out with Delhi-6, Vishal Bharadwaj’s Kaminey immediately caught the attention of the cine goers with its highly infectious Dhan Te Nan number and the crazy character introductions. The curiosity and hype began building up rapidly and the wait seemed unending. So till the time I stepped in the trial show of Kaminey my expectations were sky high. Thankfully, Vishal has delivered what he has promised.

The film narrates the tale of twins Charlie (Shahid) and Guddu (Shahid again) who are poles apart in behaviour and lifestyle. While Guddu the good boy works for a NGO and aims to rise the corporate ladder, Charlie believes in taking shortcuts and ‘chota shortcuts’ to achieve his get rich quick dream. Though they haven’t met each other in years, their lives get entangled as both get ended up in major screw up in their personal lives. What happens then on and how many misunderstanding lead to further chaos forms the rest of the plot.

Hereon, revealing anything more about Kaminey would be spoiling a major part of your fun. There are plenty of sequences which will remain forever etched in your cinematic memory right from Guddu and Charlie’s face off to almost every scene featuring Bhope Bhau (Gupte) and Tashi (Tenzing) to the Dhan Te Nan song and the crazy finale. However, the climax appears to long with the endless shooting going on and on between the multiple gangs. And the songs don’t really appear well placed. But these are minor flaws.

Shahid Kapoor delivers a knock out performance in a double role. Most importantly he succeeds in making us believe his two characters are completely different persons. With his dual act he has emerged as the strongest contender of the Best Actor trophy for 2009. Priyanka Chopra outshines all her previous best performances. Her Marathi dialogue delivery is excellent as she has also managed to catch the small nuances perfectly. Playing Charlie’s idol, Mikhail, Chandan Roy Sanyal’s doped out act is instantly likeable. Marathi stage and cinema actor Hrishikesh Joshi as corrupt cop Lele is good and so is Shiv Subramaniam playing his associate. Back after a long hiatus veteran actor Deb Mukherjee is menacing. Tenzing Nima as Nepali don, Tashi is a hoot. Amongst the crowd of the huge ensemble cast, Amole Gupte manages to create a huge impression with his chilled out Bhau act. His one-liners will have you rolling on the floor laughing.

Kaminey is also an excellent team effort with superb camerawork by Tassaduq Hussein, razor sharp editing by Meghna Manchanda Sen and gritty action by Shyam Kaushal. Vishal Bharadwaj has managed to strike a sixer donning multiple hats as a director, producer, singer, music director, screenplay and dialogue writer. His treatment of Kaminey may be on the lines of Quentin Tarantino and Guy Richie’s caper movies but the stamp of a Vishal Bharadwaj movie seen all over in Omkara is yet again on full display here.

Kaminey is a must watch at any cost. It redefines the rules of Hindi filmmaking and most importantly delivers what it promises. Chances are it may well turn out to be your favourite caper movie ever and wanna watch it again and again.

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In Naya Din Nayi Raat (1974) yesteryear actor Sanjeev Kumar reprised the nine-role epic performance by Sivaji Ganesan in Navarathiri (1964), which was also previously reprised by Akkineni Nageswara Rao in Navarathri (Telugu 1966). And now, winner of all major awards for the Best Actress category last year, Priyanka Chopra is awaiting the release of her latest film where she has enacted 12 different roles – all being Gujarati girl of similar age.

“I don’t think any other actor in world cinema has portrayed so many characters in one film on–screen,” says an excited Priyanka.

‘What’s Your Raashee?’ is Ashutosh Gowariker’s first romantic comedy, based on the Gujarati novel Kimball Ravenswood by Madhu Rye, starring Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra, and is produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Sunita A. Gowariker.

“It was difficult to portray 12 different characters on-screen, but more than that to live upto people’s expectations for doing an Ashutosh Gowarikar film,” quips Priyanka.

“The fact that all the 12 characters are almost the same age, between 18-23, made it all the more difficult. Apart from clothes and hair styles, I have tried my best to portray each character with different body language, voice modulation, accent and my inputs as an actor.” she maintains.

What’s your Rashee? is set to hit the theatres on September 25. Let’s wait and watch to see if Piggy Chops’ 12 different avatars will woo the audience!

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No edited quotes. No media meddling. Her fans get to hear straight
from the mare’s mouth on Twitter. Yes, ever since Bollywood actress
Priyanka Chopra began tweeting on the popular social networking site,
her number of followers has been on the rise.

Today, she has a whopping 21, 770 followers who check out her posts on
Twitter. And the actress isn’t disappointing them either. She posts
her thoughts regularly, despite her busy work schedule.

Not just sharing her thoughts, Priyanka is also promoting her upcoming
film Kaminey on Twitter. She has launched ‘The Kaminey Contest’ in
which any participant who gives correct answer to the questions will
get the movie’s audio CD personally autographed by Priyanka.

The response to the contest has been great.

Priyanka tweeted on the website: “Thanks for your overwhelming
response to the contest…I’ll be sending the 50 CDs with all my love
soon.”

In fact, Priyanka has been very candid in her posts on Twitter.
Perhaps that is why a lot of people are following her entries
regularly, more than that of other Bollywood tweeps like Mallika
Sherawat and Gul Panag.

Just recently, when she was under the weather, Priyanka tweeted: “Down
with the flu or viral or some such thing that is making me miserable.
Ugh! I hate being sick! Had to cancel shoot. Guilty.”

Meanwhile, her ‘Kaminey’ with Shahid Kapur releases next Friday.

Media reports suggest that Priyanka is now feeling jittery about a steamy scene that she’s done in the film.

Interestingly, this scene is not with Shahid Kapoor but a rather not so known theatre actor who plays her initial love interest in the film. The reports further claim, this scene was shot before the release of Fashion and Dostana.

She had done the scene going by Bharadwaj’s belief in the importance of the scene to the script. But now post the awards hoopla and new found big status as the film’s release date is getting nearer Priyanka is getting cold feet.

Well what really the truth is might come out once the film is finally released. Kaminey is amongst one of the most eagerly awaited releases of 2009. Now this news that we heard makes it more eagerly awaited for us as well!

Although actor Priyanka Chopra shared a kiss with Akshay Kumar in her very first film, ‘Andaaz’, she has been very picky about on-screen pecks. But the latest dope is that the sexy damsel has done a kissing scene in Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Kaminey’, in which she plays a Maharashtrian mulgi.

A unit hand informs us that though Shahid Kapur and Priyanka Chopra have great on-screen chemistry, Priyanka wasn’t happy when director Vishal Bhardwaj informed her about the kissing scene. But since that scene forms an important part of the film, director Bhardwaj got Priyanka’s nod.

It can be recalled that Priyanka refused to kiss beau Harman in his debut movie ‘Love Story 2050’. Later, her kissing scene with Arjan Bajwa for Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Fashion’ got Harman furious. But we are sure Priyanka’s lip lock with Shahid in Kaminey will not have Harman fuming any more… after all the two have split gracefully and have gone their own separate ways.

So after her swimsuit show in ‘Dostana’, Piggy Chops makes the headlines once again with yet another smoldering bold act!

Director:Vishal Bharadwaj
Producer:Vishal Bharadwaj

A story about identical twins, in early twenties, hoping to leave the squalor behind and move into a life of prosperity and dignity. But the similarity ends here. Intercut between the parallel stories of the brothers as they run to protect themselves, their dreams and their love. Until a point where it converges and the brothers meet to realize that they only have each other.

Her film Love Story 2050 with Harman was all set to release and the duo was to perform to a medley of songs from that movie.After the film flopped Priyanka has moved on… and how! The rumours of her dating Harman Baweja made way for her alleged relationship with Shahid Kapoor, all of which she took in her stride never once letting anyone in on her true feelings for either of the men.

Now, a year later Priyanka Chopra and Shahid Kapoor are all set to promote their film Kaminey on the very same platform.

Yup! You heard it right. The twosome will perform on a medley of songs from Kaminey! I wonder though what the fate of the movie will be given what happened to Love Story last year.

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