Thriller with twisted tails Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Tabu, Kumud Mishra, Radhika Madan, Naseeruddin Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma , Shardul Bhardwaj...
Thriller with twisted tails
Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Tabu, Kumud Mishra,
Radhika Madan, Naseeruddin Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma,
Shardul Bhardwaj, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Vijayant Kohli
Rating: 3.5/5
Aasmaan Bhardwaj
– ace filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj’s son – has made Kuttey a lot like a Tarantino
film, but somewhat weaker. Overall it’s a strong debut. A film that doesn’t let
you off the hook for even a second, Kuttey is a fun time at the cinema which has
you grinning widely for most of the runtime. An audacious work by Bollywood
standards, it may be liked by some or disliked by others. It’s special too as
it’s actually got a good performance out of Arjun Kapoor of all people.
A van carrying crores of cash. One rainy
night on the outskirts of Mumbai. Unaware of each other, three stray gangs
cross paths on the hunt. All of them have the same plan. Bullets… Blood…
Betrayal… It’s every man for himself… All the dogs are after one bone. Will
these dogs bite the bone, or will they lose to greed?
Kuttey is a film
that has its lows and highs. One of the lows is the excessive number of wasted
cameos: Anurag Kashyap’s cameo adds nothing to the film, Naseeruddin Shah’s
cameo could’ve been used in a better way, so is the case with Ashish
Vidhyarthi’s cameo.
Aasmaan Bhardwaj
makes for a strong debutant director, heavily influenced by Tarantino and
Scorsese, with its fair share of homages, most notably the scene at the
beginning where the Naxalites kill people against a red screen, a homage to
Kill Bill: Volume One’s scene which itself was a homage to Samurai Fiction.
The film is
highly stylized in terms of cinematography and lighting. Tabu and Kumud Mishra are
the highlights, alongside Arjun Kapoor who manages (somehow) to give a good
performance; Radhika Madan and Shardul Bhardwaj too are good; Konkona Sen
Sharma, in the little screen time she has, manages to leave a lasting impact.
The music, specifically Dhan Te Nan, is a bad remix of the original and is
sometimes obnoxious to hear.
Overall, Kuttey
is a cozy watch at the cinema and at home when it starts streaming on Netflix.
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