Film: Kites
Rating: 2.5/5
Banner: Filmkraft Productions (I) Pvt Ltd
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Kangna Ranaut, Barbara Mori, Kabir Bedi, Nick Brown, Yuri Suri
Music: Rajesh Roshan
Cinematography: Ayananka Bose
Director: Anurag Basu
Producers: Rakesh Roshan, Sunaina Roshan
Release Date: May 21, 2010
It is with great hype and hoopla that the film ‘Kites’ has been promoted and more so, for its steamy kissing sequences and nude shots. How worthy was it? Let us see..
Story
Jai (Hrithik) is about to get engaged to Gina (Kangana), the beautiful daughter of a very powerful casino owner Bob (Kabir). Things change after Jai sees Natasha (Barbara) and it is love at first sight. However, trouble also begins there since Natasha is the fiancée of Tony (Nick), Gina’s brother. What happens to Jai’s love story? Is he successful or not forms the rest of the tale.
Performances
Hrithik Roshan provides full oxygen to the film and his screen presence, performance, dance are very good. However, it is his character which has been carved weakly making it a letdown.
Barbara is beautiful and she has done her bit with ease though few sequences made her look stiff. Her body language was positive but she could have worked on emotional expressions.
Nick Brown does a good job and he makes his presence felt despite the hype of the lead pair.
Kabir Bedi was brief, Yuri Suri was alright, the others didn’t have much to offer except fill the screen.
Positives:
Cinematography
Hrithik and Barbara
Set Backs:
Overflowing Spanish dialogues accompanied by sub titles in Devnagari script!!!
No spirit in the movie
Weak story line and weaker characterizations
Everything else as well…….
Analysis
The film banks heavily on the star power, exotic locales and exceptional cinematography but then the makers have yet again committed a fundamental blunder.
The essence of any film is its story and how it connects to the audience. Things get sensitive when it is a love story so all want a heart tender experience rather than a visually filling feast.
So while the film has scored on aspects like locations, action sequences, cinematography etc, it failed to work in script, screenplay, dialogues or editing. The entire pace of the film is slow and it must be said that the narrative was quite shallow. It is not until the second half that the film doesn’t pick up the speed and here is the debatable part, the climax. Perhaps the ending of the film would be met with a diverse kind of reactions.
At the box office, the film will get remarkable openings due to the star power and the hype. But it fails to sync with audience’s interest and hence it is going to sink. Kites fly with control of threads that touch the ground. This movie ‘Kites’ lose that control as it left the ground realities with broken threads in narration.
Bottom-line: Broken threads make Kites fall down
