Kites : Not high a flight
Hrithik Roshan's much-hyped global Bollywood movie 'Kites' fails to enthuse discerning audience despite breathtaking thrills, exotic locales and presence of Mexican actor Barbara Mori
This one’s the much-awaited ‘home delivery’ from the Roshans’. But Kites fails to fly high on expectations. Exotic locales, thrills, car-chase, gun-fights and a foreign heroine failed to create “jaadu” with this FilmKraft production hyped as the first Bollywood movie in Hollywood isstyle. Rakesh Roshan has travelled a lot – from the virgin hills of Arunachal Pradesh (for Koyla) to the rugged Mexican countryside or for that matter to the dingy casinos of Las Vegas. But magic was somewhat missing from his earlier productions with a capital ‘K’. Though it might have grossed hefty returns at the box-office, thanks to the generationext of playstations and zigmos, the movie fails to induce the vibes in the discerning movie-goers.
The plot revolves around the character of Hrithik Roshan christened ‘J’, typifying the mysticism and masquerading of a small fry hustler playing all his cards to rub shoulders among the big league in Las Vegas, a love game inclusive with the daughter of a casino baron. Natasha or Linda, an illegal Mexican immigrant played by Barbara Mori, is up for the same game-plan. Incidentally, like every other Bollywood movie, love happens between them just at the crucial threshold of realizing their big dreams. And they start dreaming even bigger amidst a never-ending wild chase postulating exploding cars and shootouts until doom overcasts them in a scintillating climax. For a change the mantle of Kites was handed over to a non-Roshan, Anurag Basu who miserably had nothing much to do as the director. The high point of Kites was definitely the resplendent and bewitching camerawork by upcoming cinematographer Ayananka Bose. The camera never misses to catch the intrinsic details in every frame – let it be the dark and shade interiors of a casino, the musical fountains of Las Vegas or the rustic deserts of Mexico; or for that matter the underwater scenes creating a make-belief world of virtual reality. Over and above, the movie turns out to be nothing but a complete showstopper by Hrithik Roshan who delights throughout with death defying stunts explicit with unflagging energy while the rest of the cast reducing to mere caricatures. Barbara Mori too fails to impress except on rare occasions who otherwise blabbers in distinctive Mexican Spanish throughout with periodical interludes of crackles.
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