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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:MrFanservice gets the largest box! And an extra one too!]] |
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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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