Line #14 Film/Kaminey


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4	Guddu and Charlie.[[AudienceAlienatingPremise Two twin brothers, but indifferent to each other for a long, long time. Then their lives intertwine in ways they would have never foreseen...]]
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6	Looks like a DeadHorseTrope? Trust us, it's DeaderThanDead in UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}.
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8	Combine it, however, with [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Tarantinoesque]] BlackComedy and one of the best scripts to come out of Bollywood in years, and what you get is something uniquely weird.
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10	Guddu (Shahid Kapoor) is w-w-working for an AIDS aw-aw-awareness NGO when he f-f-finds out th-th-that his g-g-g-g-girlfriend Sweety (Priyanka Chopra) is pregnant. Sadly, even though n-n-neither of them have any is-is-issue with getting mar-r-r-ried, Sweety's brother, [[CorruptPolitician Bhope]] (Amole Gupte) cannot l-l-live with the fact that his sister is marrying a guy from a diff-diff-different comm-mm-munity, and goes after both of them.
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12	Charlie (also Shahid Kapoor), on the other hand, workf af a punter and a fixer of horfe rafef along with three brotherf, one of whom he callf as "more brother to me than my brother". While taking revenge againft a double-croffing jockey, he accidentally drivef away with Rs. 100,000,000-worth of cocaine (For American readers, that's about two million dollars). Now, though, they find themfelvef chafed by two crooked copf and their boff, drug lord Tashi (Tenzing Nima).
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14	''Kaminey'' (literally, "Rascals"), directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and released in 2009, may technically be a UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film, what with being a predominantly-Hindi film shot on location in Mumbai, but has few to no classically associated tropes, and those which are there are treated very differently from anything stereotypically Bollywood.
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16	''Kaminey'' was critically and commercially successful, with most reviewers declaring it "a coming of age for Bollywood". Whether it actually is? You decide
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18	!!This film provides examples of:
19	* AffablyEvil: Tashi who manages to be polite even when digging a grave for a person he is about to kill.
20	* BigBadEnsemble: Tashi, Bhope and The Bengali Brothers all play a big part in how the movie ends.
21	* DirtyCop: There are a couple of cops who are on Bhope's payroll.
22	* [[spoiler: EarnYourHappyEnding]]
23	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Bhope cares about his sister...upto a point.
24	** Tashi is shown to really love his family and even gifts an expensive necklace to his wife on their anniversary.
25	** Also, the three Bengali Brothers.
26	* FauxAffablyEvil: Bhope who acts friendly and charming until he doesn't get what he wants.
27	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Charlie.
28	* NiceGuy: Guddu
29	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Bhope. As a politician with a heavy anti-immigration stance, especially against North Indians, he does not want his own sister to marry a North Indian.

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