Kites can be best described in typical Mumbaiyya lingo as 'ch****a banaya bada maja aaya'. As it happened with most of much-awaited-highly-hyped movies 'Kites' disappoints to the core. And you keep on asking yourself 'what took them so long to come up with this'?
Kites is sickening bore and slow paced movie that unfortunately termed as representation of so called Bollywood Movies to the West. And guess what? it might succeed to reinforce their belief of that our movies are just about songs and dance and story with no soul (and in this case no story at all).
Remember those mid 80's and 90's movies. Rich dad, poor lad, romance, 'khandaan ki izzat' and 'Hamara pyar amar hain' types dialogues? Yes, kites has all this, except that all this set in USA (Like most of big banner movies these days). Papa Roshan has given a perfect launch pad to beta Roshan in Hollywood. We know Hritik looks awesome, He dances bloody well and yeah this starson can act. Papa Roshan, made sure all this will be focused in the movie.
So we have Mr. J (Hritik) with 'Devil May Care' attitude who is a dancer in Las Vegas [Hritik's dance - check] a womanizer who flaunts his body and go all shirtless for many sequences [Hritik's Look and Physique - check] Vegas's big bad daday's [Kabir Bedi] big spoiled daughter Gina [Hysteria Queen - Kangana] fall flat for J, for J it was easiest way to get Rich and he has no hesitation to say Yes to Gina's proposal. The Kahani mein twist comes at Gina's brother's engagement when our Mr. J finds out that Gina's Bro's fiance Natasha (Barbara Mori) is J's Ex-Wife (Natasha formerly known as Linda). Suddenly life starts to run in slow motions and soon J and Natasha releases that they are in love. However they are equally aware of the reality. Both wants to be rich and this love won't take them anywhere. What next?? Gina's brother (Nicholas Brown who acts exactly like Mohnish Behl ) soon finds out about J and Natasha. All badies goes against our lovely couple on run. The movie features more car flying than kites in the sky that must have Rohit Shetty fuming.
The movie looks hugely inspired by 'Ek Duje Ke Liye' but completely lacks charm that was present in it. The much talked about chemistry between Hritik and Barbara is evident but for me it's hardly any reason to like a movie. The communication gap between both our protagonists hardly seems a problem in the movie and mainly used as a gimmick to find more relevance with western audience. Ayananka Bose's cinematography, Salim Sulaiman's background score and action sequences are top notch but those are expected with such a big budget movie. Even if i skip the nitpicking Kites is really 'difficult-to-like' movie. For die-hard Hritik fans it's a visual treat...for rest it's just a kati PATANG hain.
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