Review – Kaminey(2009)

Mere baap ne marte huye kaha tha ki beta Charlie,

yaad rakhna,

Life badi hi kutti chiz hai,

Aur if duniya me, kutton ka baff, ek hi jawab hai…

KAMINEY

Cast – Shahid Kapur, Priyanka Chopra, Amole Gupte

Direction – Vishal Bhardwaj

Fuperb, Fuffpenfeful, Fekfy, Folid, Ftunning, Fweet, Fmart, Ftyliff. This is Kaminey!! A Bomb. It will explode(BHUMMMMMMMM). Or it will betray you(PHUSSSSSSSSSS, no, PHUFFFFFFFFFFF). For me it explodes and HOW!!! For a person who has a past record of Maqbool, Makdee, The Blue Umbrella and Omkara, all of these being critically acclaimed though not commercially successful, you can only expect another great film. With Kaminey he might taste commercial success too.

Kaminey – References and Metaphors

References in Kaminey –

Apart from belonging mostly in the genre of films like Pulp Fiction, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and Manmohan Desai film films which Vishal Bhardwaj openly says he admires, I found two other films that may have referenced Kaminey –

1. PARASH PATHAR(1958) -  The scene in Kaminey towards the end of the film when the little boy trades chocolate with Amole Gupte for keeping quiet is a reference to Parash Pathar directed by Satyajit Ray.