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Post by odadune on Nov 23, 2013 4:32:22 GMT
This is a remake of the Telugu film of the same title, which starred Ravi Teja and Ileana D'Cruz, an action/comedy masala with a bit of a social message angle. The remake is being helmed by first-time director, long-time producer Sajid Nadiadwala, and has been rather a troubled production. There was a brief shoot in Britain that involved a stuntman dying in a car accident, and Salman being unable to show up because his staff botched the paperwork necessary (this after some long delays caused by his need to appear in court for the hit-and-run case he was involved in during the early 00s). More details cane be found in the old thread here: www.bollywhat-forum.com/index.php?topic=36150.0
Since then, Salman has become convinced that the style of action masala he brought to Bollywood with Wanted and Dabangg is going out of style, and the failure of films like Himmatwala, Phata Poster Nikla Hero, Besharam and Boss seems to bear him out on that. Supposedly Kick is being retooled to deemphasize the absurdist South Indian style masala elements. It is theoretically aimed for an Eid 2014 release date (ie, around July 23, 2014).
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Post by dancelover on Mar 27, 2014 16:47:11 GMT
BoxOfficeIndia calls Kick "third most awaited film of year." D This is a remake of the Telugu film of the same title, which starred Ravi Teja and Ileana D'Cruz, an action/comedy masala with a bit of a social message angle. The remake is being helmed by first-time director, long-time producer Sajid Nadiadwala, and has been rather a troubled production. There was a brief shoot in Britain that involved a stuntman dying in a car accident, and Salman being unable to show up because his staff botched the paperwork necessary (this after some long delays caused by his need to appear in court for the hit-and-run case he was involved in during the early 00s). More details cane be found in the old thread here: www.bollywhat-forum.com/index.php?topic=36150.0
Since then, Salman has become convinced that the style of action masala he brought to Bollywood with Wanted and Dabangg is going out of style, and the failure of films like Himmatwala, Phata Poster Nikla Hero, Besharam and Boss seems to bear him out on that. Supposedly Kick is being retooled to deemphasize the absurdist South Indian style masala elements. It is theoretically aimed for an Eid 2014 release date (ie, around July 23, 2014).
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odadune
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Post by odadune on Jun 15, 2014 14:57:10 GMT
KICK trailer; great special effects; Randeep, Nawaz and Salman are pretty cool; Jackie seems pretty dull once she gets out of Madame Librarian mode:
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odadune
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Post by odadune on Jun 20, 2014 11:48:53 GMT
Jumme Ki Raat:
(Warning: risque in spots, including a gag I found kind of uncomfortable, although the picturization overall seems like more dancing than Salman has done in a while and more dancing than Jacqueline has ever done in her career.)
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odadune
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Post by odadune on Jul 4, 2014 13:47:00 GMT
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Post by Prem Rogue on Jul 26, 2014 18:29:01 GMT
baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/kick-4096-1234-897/Movies like Kick depress me – and not because of the ineptness on display, the sheer waste of resources, the utter contempt for the audience. What depresses me is that they become hits, and further the conventional wisdom that this is what masala cinema is all about. Have the hero make his entry in a scene that literally showers him with confetti. Have him break some bones, and depict this bone-breaking through X-rays. Have him wrap things up with this admonitory punch line: “Dil mein aata hoon – samajh mein nahin,” that we should embrace him with our hearts and not our brains. And we’re supposed to go home happy. It’s depressing because it makes a mockery of the masala movies that take the trouble to write out convincing quasi-mythical narratives, with characters that are at once rooted and larger than life. Heck, you don’t have to look further than Salman Khan’s Dabangg, whose moves are still popular enough to be referenced here.
The difference between Dabangg and Kick is also the difference between India and Poland. Masala movies are essentially warm movies. They need the spice of colours like red and yellow. They need the heat from numbers like Munni badnaam hui and Aare pritam pyaare. They need to be peppered with moving parent-child scenes, piquant romantic stretches, epic hero-villain showdowns. Late into Kick, we get a sequence that unfolds during a charity ball. What self-respecting masala movie goes to a charity ball? Why not situate the same scene in a mela? A lot is lost when you take a quintessentially Indian genre and set it in a foreign country that doesn’t get much sun. It turns cold. And it looks ridiculous because the filmmakers don’t want to make a cool, Hollywood-style movie – they want all the elements of the great Indian tamasha, but they want it in Warsaw. It’s like making kebabs from a kielbasa recipe.
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Post by dancelover on Jul 28, 2014 17:14:24 GMT
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