Flying higher and higher- astonishing
While Abhishek Kapoor's Rock on was about urban friendships and picking up strewn pieces in fulfilling a lost dream, Kai Po che is rural, youthful in its mood, about creating a future, its a film that greatly reflects the zeal of India's youth. However ultimately both films are about friendship and the meaning that it gives to life.
Kapoor adapts an book by Chetan Bhagat ( Bhagat seems to be India's Stephen King in terms of most books adapted to films) with amazing results in telling us the story of three friends set in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and the effect of three events - the 2001 test series between India and Austrlai, an earthquake and communal riots that changes their life forever.
There has been a trend in Bollywood about male bondings as evident by the directors sophomoric outing- Rock On, which starred Farhan Akhtar who had earlier directed Dil Chahta Hai, another film about male bonding.Three Idiots, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara are other recent examples. However all the...
awesome movie
Great movie from start to finish. The lead actors acted so well, it's hard to tell they are relative newcomers. A thinking person's movie. Kai Po Che is a phrase used in kite flying competitions, when your kite is cut by another's. An apt metaphor for the movie, which is about three friends' aspirations, and what happens to those in the end.
An engaging tale about friendship
Directed with verve and style by Abhishek Kapoor, "Kai Po Che!" is a pleasant surprise of sorts: a big-budget Bollywood movie that significantly tones down many of the elements - i.e., corniness, cutesiness, and an air of self-congratulatory smugness - that often make them such a chore to sit through.
Beautifully shot by Anay Goswamy, the movie chronicles the trials and tribulation, joys and heartbreaks of three young men, best friends from childhood, who fulfill a lifelong dream of opening a sporting goods store and of training young boys in their neighborhood in the art of cricket.
Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh and Raj Kumar Yadav are tremendously appealing as Ish, Omi and Govind, respectively, and it is their performances that really make us care about the characters' plight. In fact, so deeply are we drawn into the narrative that we barely even notice the touch of melodrama that slips in as we're approaching the finish line. Instead, it's the small but...
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