Lets get straight to the point. Kites disappoints.
All the hooplah, all the expectations, all the buzz come crashing down, when this 2-hour 5-minute movie runs and for my amazement seems longer.
To start with, every movie needs a story to begin with, which is no where to be seen in Kites. The "story" according to the makers is about Jay (Hrithik), a street-smart guy who can do anything and can go to any extent for the love of money, and for that reason he does fake marriages helping illegal immigrants get their green cards. One such marriage was with Linda. But this time it was different. He couldnt forget Linda (Barbara). He was in LOVE...but she was gone.
Then he acts to be in love with Gina (Kangna), so that he could reach her father (Kabir) and of course his wealth. There he finds Linda again who is now getting married to Tony(Nicholas). So sad. But obviously God wants Jay and Linda to fall in love, so he creates rifts between Tony and Linda so that she could be all Jay's :). Mmm.. What else are we missing for these to-be lovers to fall in love. Oh yes...Rain..., So rain pours down on hot and deserted Las Vegas and our actors obviously break into a song and while they are at it, they also discuss how they both are cheating the rich family for their money.
Finding similar passions in themselves they finally fall in love and Anurag Basu copies and pastes the Shilpa Shetty-Shiney Ahuja scene from Life in a...Metro to show their intimacy, but alas Tony comes and tortures Linda. But not for long as our Hero comes and saves Linda and they run. They run for their love...Ahh.. too romantic. And they run, they run again and they keep running till the end. Papa millionaire Kabir Bedi and Main Villain, Nicholas Brown cant digest this act of our heroic lovers, so for revenge they run too to get them.
But do they get them. Nopes they dont coz they both commit suicides, obviously in different time periods, and their souls unite in the end in the deep waters.
Now lets open the secret why Rakesh Roshan made this movie. We all are waiting (and as we always do) for Krissh 2 and since it has Jadoo too, so this makes for an amazing setting for a space-set action-packed adventure movie, but such movies cost a lot and Papa Roshan is too smart to invest in such a movie until and unless he has means to earn it back.
So one day, as Rakesh says, he was sitting and watching at the sky and saw 2 kites and thought of an idea, the idea was what if one kites cuts another while they are too close and develops this idea into this story (I dont understand where this idea was in this story). But what he didnt tell us was that he also wanted a big market for his next movie Krissh 2, so he just wanted to create a buzz in hollywood, so he jumps from his seat and decides to make a movie which will have all the hollywoodish elements jumbled up together, so that he will get to work with some hollywood Ace technicians, but in doing that he forgot that strength of FilmKRAFT always lied in its story and its appeal to the masses.
At the end of the day, Kites is just a publicity stunt and not a movie.
As for acting, Hrithik did all what was required (that wasnt more than looking good) and Barbara smiles, Kangna wasted, and Kabir and Nicholas okay. Extras resembled characters from funny cowboy games.
Music wasnt required, but still Zindagi Do Pal Ki, suited to the scene, else was a waste.
Cinematography is amazing. Ayananka Bose is hugely talented.
Action of the movie is great, fast-paced and truly international. Action sequences are the only parts of the movie that keep you at edge of the seat and glued to the screen.
Anurag Basu, what to say, did whatever he could to make movie interesting but was felt short coz of the bad screenplay.
Rakesh Roshan has made a lot of moolah a year before of releasing by selling the movie rights to Reliance Big Pictures, so he is happy.
As for exhibitors, the buzz of Kites is still there so they are gonna make money too at least in the first week. But as the first week will go by, with mouth publicity, the collections are bound to trend down.
Kites is a movie without a heart. I hope FilmKRAFT will come back with a movie that will touch hearts as they did earlier.
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