Kai Po Che Movie Review

Kai Po Che!
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Story:

Kai Po Che! is a film directed by Abhishek Kapoor based on Chetan Bhagat's novel The 3 Mistakes of My Life , with music by Amit Trivedi and lyrics by Swanand Kirkire. Sushant Singh Rajput, Raj Kumar Yadav and Amit Sadh star as the three main protagonists while Amrita Puri plays the female lead respectively. The story revolves around three friends who want to start some business. Where one friend is an Ex district player who was a victim of politics in the cricketing space, the other one is the nephew of a hindu politician who funds their business and third one is a nerd who is the mastermind behind starting a sports shop and also a sports academy. The story deepens into the earthquake and Gujarat riots and how that affects their life.

Direction:

Abhishek Kapoor, One of my fav directors of recent times is back to shower bromance on silver screen after a very successful ROCK ON! However it’s not always an easy task for any director to make a movie out of a very successful novel (here it is 3 Mistakes of my life by chetan bhagat), cos possibilities are that your work will be directly get compared with the novelty of the book, but hatss off to Abhishek for adding some real crispy twists within the story which makes you glued to your seats till the sudden climax strikes you hard. Abhishek has very smartly woven the different emotions of life through the canvas of beautifully captured landscapes of ahmedabad poll. Abhishek has showen more maturity in the department of direction this time in comparison of ROCK ON! He has given enough scope to his talented cast for showing their brilliancy. Direction of the movie is up to the mark. Abhishek is sure going to get a nomination for this. 

Music:

The biggest plus point of Kai Po Che is its music given by Amit Trivedi, after working as a theatre and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as a film composer in the 2008 Hindi film Aamir, and shot to fame in the Hindi film music scene with his critically acclaimed work in the more popular Dev.D, since from that day he is my personal fav music director. Music composed by Amit in Kai Po Che is just awesome, though just three songs in the movie; placement of the song in a movie is just perfect, taking the story forward. Superb work by amit trivedi.

Performances:

Considering that Kai Po Che is a social drama, It’s always important to assemble a very talented cast. And brownie points to the casting director of Kai Po Che for giving a chance to new talent, and the selection of actors are such that it seems they are born to play the characters of Kai Po Che. Sushant Singh Rajput playing the role of Ishaan is simply outstanding; he’s performance climbs upward emoting various phrases of relations as the movie progresses to the finale. He can restrain his emotions and can deliver the right expressions at the right time. Sushant is surely going to beg many nominations for his debut. Amit sadh playing the role of Omi, is a revelation check out his outburst in finale, he is definitely going to stay long here. Raj Kumar Gupta who already has shown his caliber in LSD, Shaitaan, Talaash shines again in the role of Govind. He has given a complete new dimension to the character of Govind. Just one word to say Awesome. Amrita Puri playing Ishaan’s sister and love interest of Govind is efficient and cute.  

Cinematography:

Just like music, cinematography is also the biggest plus point of Kai Po Che. Cinematography by Anay Goswami capturing 90’s pols & streets of ahmedabad is brilliant. He’s effort is definitely worth an award.

What I like most:

I like the very realistic take on relationship; it’s definitely something different in comparison to other movies we’ve seen of same genre. Music, performance, cinematography and direction are the strongest part of the enterprise.      

What I don't like:

Love angle between Rajkumar Gupta and Amrita puri though cute slackens the pace and works as a speed breaker. I am little bit disappointed with the sudden climax.

Overall:

On the whole Kai Po Che is worth a wait. After a gap of 4 Years Abhishek has served us something for which he will feel proud whenever he will look back to his career. With some fine performances by leading actors, Awe inspiring music by Amit Trivedi, superb direction and cinematography as a trump card, Kai Po Che is a sure winner for UTV. A Must Watch     

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Success Story - Abhishek Kapoor "KAI PO CHE"

“Never give up control. Live life on your own terms. Right from the start, it’s a death sentence. But until then, who’s in charge? Me. That’s how I live my life.”

                  

                                  Before giving my review on KAI PO CHE!, Let me share with you a very interesting struggle story of Abhishek kapoor (Director of KAI PO CHE!) a man who lived up his dream on his own terms. Like the main three protagonist of KAI PO CHE!, Abhishek kapoor's career graph is also full of ups & downs making it a memorable roller coaster ride. Abhishek (aka as gattu) was born with a silver spoon in mouth. In his early childhood he got an opportunity to study in posh schools sharing his academic career with some of the very well-known star kids (farhan akhtar, Abhishek bachchan, twinkle khanna, tushar kapoor few many). But the time never remains same, by the time gattu completed his academic career, that silver spoon was turned to bronze now. It was a time for gattu now to take the responsibilities of family on his shoulders. Living to his dad’s dream of being an actor & using his Bollywood contacts (Abhishek kapoor is the cousin of Ekta kapoor), Abhishek got his first break as a main lead actor. But the real story starts now, Abhishek kapoor's debut movie UFF YEH MOHABBAT against twinkle khanna (also his real life love interest than) got released in 1996 and it bombed at box office so miserably that it was tagged as the most disastrous movie of that year. Abhishek kapoor was panned by many critics’ as a hero with militarian looks and wooden expressions. A very bad launch of his career has brought him under a trauma; he got parted away from twinkle khanna. However there were some directors who dared to cast him in some of their movies, but the result was the same, they all fall flat right on their face at box office.

                               

                               Abhishek cuts all his contacts from his friends and families; he was in dark zone for almost a year. He was not in touch even with his wife. He was jobless for more than 4 years. It was a tough time for him, and it was this time which makes him realize that how much one has to rely on his own dreams rather than trying to live up to others expectations. His Family was running under financial crashes at last he tried his hand in assisting some of the very well-known directors than, but nothing materialize well. It was this time which inspires him to write his first script. A story about jobless wrestler who despite all his social and financial problems achieves what he desires in his life. Movie was titled ARYAN. But again it was a task to find the producers to back the Abhishek's dream. After struggling for years he got Vipul anand on board to back his project. Abhishek was back in the market but with a very tight budget to prove his caliber now. His first debut movie ARYAN made on a very tight budget with no star value was ready to release, but with not so well known star cast (sohail khan & sneha ullal) ARYAN never found a buyers, after hiatus of long 1 and half years, movie finally got released in some theaters, and as expected it marked the lowest opening in box office that year. Though a very well made film ARYAN was one of the biggest flops of 2006 commercially. However it was well received by the critics. Abhishek's ability as a director was evident in every frame of the movie. Though flop in 2006, nowadays ARYAN is considered as Sohail khan's careers best movie till date. In 2008 Crossword has reported that the demand of DVD’s for ARYAN has increased phenomenally, & by the end of 2011 producers has earned a whopping 5 - 7 crore just by the sales of DVD's.

               

                            After the release of ARYAN, Abhishek was well known by the insiders as a genuine director by now, however he was looking for the real fame which can justify his talent. He started working on his second script, a story about four friends and there second chance to live there dreams. This time it was EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT headed by Abhishek's school buddies (farhan akhtar & ritesh siddhwani) to support his friend to live up his dream. It was a project of experiment called ROCK ON!! Made on a very restrain budget and a strong premise, the first Promo of ROCK ON!! went on air in the monsoons of 2008. And with the very first promo, it was visible that farhan & Abhishek has winners in their hand. ROCK ON!! Released with minimum expectations and was proved out as the biggest surprise hit of 2008. It hits the nation and band lovers like a storm. With ROCK ON Abhishek has shown a new angle of bromance to Bollywood, it was a breakthrough movie, a real trendsetter. Farhan akhtar who till now was just known for his directorial ability, has shown his talent and brilliancy as an actor and singer, a true rockstar. ROCK ON met with the both critical and commercial success. And is now consider as a cult movie in the genre of bromance. Abhishek was riding high with ROCK ON!! As movie was rewarded with the most prestigious National and Fimfare award. Finally Abhishek got what he desired in his life.

                          

                        After the humongous success of ROCK ON, Abhishek got flooded with the offers from well-known producers to direct their movies, but being a man of its own terms Abhishek has rejected all the offers, he also refuses to direct his cousin Ekta kapoor’s movie. Meanwhile Farhan who gave Abhishek his first dream breakthrough was ready with the final draft for the sequel of ROCK ON!! script was written by him own which he wanted to be directed by Abhishek. However Abhishek who has already rejected many offers from the big production houses of industry, has not shown much interest in Farhan’s project too, which eventually turned up as a reason for tiff between best buddies farhan & Abhishek (Its rumored that the basic premise of the draft written by farhan was afterwards used by his sister Zoya and she made Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara out of it which was a big hit).

              

                     Against the norms of film industry and rejecting offers of almost all the big production houses, Abhishek was ready to write his own script, he wanted to live up the bromance once again. He wanted to recreate the same euphoria that was created at the time of ROCK ON!! Instead of going with a mega budget and star studded venture, Abhishek opted to go for an average budget movie with a very strong script & instead of casting big stars he chooses to cast new talents. He spent his valuable 2 years in just writing the script and finalizing the leads for his next venture which was based on very popular Indian novel 3 mistakes of my life written by Chetan Bhagat. Finally he begin the shooting & as per the demand of the script Abhishek shoots much part of the movie in a very crowded pols of Ahmedabad for constant 4 months & that too in a skin scratching summers of 2011. Movie was titled KAI PO CHE!! Again with the very first promo launch of KAI PO CHE!! It was visible that Abhishek has done no mistake in taking his own time to make this film. Promos and songs of the movie (music: Amit trivedi) became a viral hit. And was buzzed as one of the most awaited movies of 2013. And Abhishek has one more time proved that it’s the premise of the movie which attracts the people and not the big budget. However after creating an initial buzz it’s now to see that how much KAI PO CHE!! Lives up to our expectations.

                      Will Abhishek be able to hit the home run again with KAI PO CHE!!? Will he shuts the mouth of big production houses by delivering a hit again in a very constraint budget? Will he be able to do the complete justice to the talent of new cast?

                        Matter not with the results of Kai Po che!! Abhishek has already won the hearts of many like me with his really inspiring success story. His journey is very well depicted in one of the songs of Kai Po Che!!

         Roothe khaabon ko mana lenge, Kati patango ko thaamenge
         Haa haa hai jazba, Ho ho hai jazba
         Suljha lenge uljhe rishton ka manjha

         Soyi taqdeere jaga denge, Kal ko ambar jhuka denge
         Haa haa, hai jazba, Ho ho, hai jazba
         Suljha lenge uljhe rishton ka manjha

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Check out my next blog soon with the review of KAI PO CHE!!

Special Chabbis movie review

Special Chabbis 
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Story:
Special Chabbis  is a Bollywood heist drama film directed by Neeraj Pandey of A Wednesday fame. The film stars Akshay Kumar and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead roles with Jimmy Shergill, Manoj Bajpai and Anupam Kher in supporting roles. The film is based on a real life group of con artists who pulled off many clever robberies during 1980's, and robbed famous businessmen and politicians by pretending to be the CBI or Income tax officers, on the pretext of conducting raids they would take away all the black money hoarded by them, the film also takes its concept from the real-life daring heist dated 19-March-1987 where the same group posing as CBI officers executed a daylight income tax raid on the Opera House branch of Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri in Mumbai, and disappeared with jewellery worth lakhs

Direction:
Neeraj Pandey who has shown his brilliancy with his debut movie A Wednesday is back with an intelligently woven, slick and smart period thriller with its subject matter as its USP. However its always tough for a director to make a film on real incidents as it has very little scops to add entertainment values whoch is very necessary now a days to make your film get noticed, but i would like to give brownie points to neeraj for coming out with a very intelligent adge of the seat thriller which hardly gives you time to think. Actually Neeraj has rewritten the formula of making thriller films in Bollywood. Whether with his first outing A Wednesday and with Special 26 now, what evident is that this supremely talented director know his work well, he has the grip to glue his audiance with a sheer experience of genuine drama which is rare this days in hindi cinema. Make my words, neeraj will be one of the contenders for best director category in 2013. Take a bow sir!! 

Music:
Being a period film on real incident there is a very little scope for music in Special 26. However M. M. Keeravani & Himesh Reshammiya has done a very well job by coming out with a very decent album which soothes the mood of the movie. Again a good decision by neeraj, as the music in the movie is just give some oomph in this very fast paced thriller. My fav is promotional song sung by Akashay Kumar "Mujh main tu" . All other songs are strictly okay. I would like to give a Special mention to the background score of the movie which is in a sync of the movie. Never over the top. brownie points

Performances:
If you have Akshay Kumar in the movie, half the game you've won. Akshay kumar is just brilliant in the movie as a con man. He is so sinciere in his part that sometimes you genuinely get the feeling that he is the real CBI officer. After attempting brianless comedies and action thriller in recent years, this is the film which I feel has given akshay kumar a stand to show his brilliancy, and the actor has grabbed the oppurtunity with both the hands and has come out with the performance which he will be proud when look back in coming years. Worthy an award (atleast this time).
                           Talking about other actors in the movie, Manoj bajpayee & anupam kher is the one who take the rest pie with there  one of the best performances. You can always rely on anupam kher when it comes to display the comical side with a pinch of seriouseness & the veteran actor is just brilliant. Manoj bajpayee on other hand is just perfect in this cat and mouse chase story. Watch out his uncounter with senior officials and you will know why he is a actor of his own choice. Jimmy shergill is perfect too. Kajal agarwal as a love interest of akshay kumar has not got more scope but is efficient in a small role as a girl next door. In a nutshell again a home hit from neeraj for doing complete justice with  a very talented cast.

Cinematography:
Cinematography by Bobby Singh is adequate, capturing the mood of the script very well on celluloid. 


What I like most:
Neeraj has woven the real life con incidents of 1980's very intelligently in the script, the flow of the movie is such that you never realise that it reached the finale. Second half of the film is just outstanding, Brownie points again to neeraj for coming out with such an out of the box finale! just like what we experienced in A Wednesday, shocking though satisfactory.

What I don't like:
Love angle between Akshay kumar and kajal agarwal which slow down the first half, can't we make movies without song. However the songs are very well placed it serves as speed breaker, actually the pace of the script is such that you don't want anything else to be placed within.
Watch It on: Worth to watch in theatres, its a movie worth to watch with your family. Get ready to spend some money. Akshay is back to swept your pocket. But let me assure you, its a paisa vasool.


Overall:
After serving us a very edgy social thriller A Wednesday, Neeraj pandey has towered his status as a director with his second outing Special 26. With this its sure that Neeraj is going to stay long and is going serve us for long years. A true talent. In a nutshell, Special 26 is a must watch for many reasons, first and foremost is that it never takes viewers intelligency on stake. This is one is a true winner. For classes and masses both. Leap this con men tale.
 
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