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Kites

Kites (film)

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Kites

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Anurag Basu
Produced by Rakesh Roshan
Screenplay by
  • Robin Bhatt
  • Akarsh Khurana
  • Anurag Basu[1]
Story by Rakesh Roshan
Starring
  • Hrithik Roshan
  • Bárbara Mori
  • Kangna Ranaut
  • Kabir Bedi
  • Nick Brown
Music by Songs:
Rajesh Roshan
Background Score:
Salim Sulaiman
Cinematography Ayananka Bose[2]
Editing by Akiv Ali[3]
Distributed by Reliance BIG Pictures
Filmkraft Productions[4]
Release date(s)
  • 21 May 2010 (2010-05-21)
Running time 130 minutes
Country ‹See Tfd› India
Language
  • Hindi
  • English
  • Spanish
Budget 60 crore (US$11.97 million)[5]
Box office 88 crore (US$17.56 million)[6]

Kites is a 2010 Indian romantic drama film directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Rakesh Roshan, that stars Hrithik Roshan, Bárbara Mori, Kangna Ranaut, and Kabir Bedi.[2] The film was released in India and in North America on May 21, 2010. Its 208-theater opening in North America made it the largest Bollywood release there to that time.[7] It was also the first Bollywood movie to reach the weekend top ten, though My Name is Khan had a larger first-weekend North American gross.[7] Despite a strong opening in India, it was eventually declared a flop.[8]

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Cast
  • 3 Release
    • 3.1 Promotion
    • 3.2 International versions
    • 3.3 Box office
    • 3.4 Critical reception
  • 4 Awards and nominations
  • 5 Music
    • 5.1 Track listing
  • 6 References
  • 7 External links

Plot

Jai (Hrithik Roshan) is a dance teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a sideline, he marries immigrant women to get them green cards. When Gina (Kangna Ranaut), the rich daughter of a powerful casino owner Bob (Kabir Bedi), falls for him, Jai goes along to marry into money. He discovers that his future brother-in-law, the vicious, homicidal Tony (Nick Brown), is about to marry a Mexican woman named Natasha (Bárbara Mori), whom Jai knows as Linda, the last of the immigrant women he married. On the night before "Natasha" and Tony's wedding, Linda and Jai spend a romantic but chaste night, humorously agreeing to a "divorce." A jealous, gun-wielding Tony arrives at her apartment while Jai is there. After he hits her, Linda impulsively knocks him out with a heavy object while he tussles with Jai. Linda and Jai go on the run toward Mexico, with Tony and police in pursuit. They are helped by a friend of Jai, Robin (Anand Tiwari). Robin gives them fake passports and IDs so that they can go wherever they want.

In the following week, Jai and Linda get married in Mexico. On the day of their wedding they come back to their house. There, Robin comes to give them the passports and is unexpectedly shot by Tony and his men. Linda and Jai escape, but Jai is shot in the process. In a car chase, Linda stops the car at a train, puts Jai aboard it, and drives off. Back to the present, Jai meets with Jamaal, one of Bob's employees, and is ambushed. Jamaal is killed but not before telling Jai of Linda's whereabouts. Jai kills off all of Tony's men and then beats Tony by smashing his face into the car door, until he is shot by Gina. He drives off to the location where Jamaal said Linda was last seen. It is shown that after Jai was put aboard the train, Linda was ambushed on a cliff and sent Jai a text message saying "I'm going...Sorry, Forget me". She drives off of the cliff, killing herself by drowning. Jai cries and then smiles, jumping off the cliff as well. Finally, he is reunited with Linda under the ocean, and they embrace through death.

Cast

  • Hrithik Roshan as Jai Singhania
  • Bárbara Mori as Natasha/Linda
  • Nick Brown as Tony Grover
  • Kangna Ranaut as Gina Grover
  • Kabir Bedi as Bob Grover
  • Anand Tiwari as Robin
  • Yuri Suri as Jamaal
  • Madhuri Bhatia as Gina's mom

Release

Kites was on 2000 screens in India, across 30 countries and 500 screens globally, according to distributor Reliance BIG Entertainment.[9] It opened on 208 screens in North America, making it the largest Bollywood release there to that time.[7]

Promotion

To help the promote the film, mini "music videos" were released online, each about one minute long and featuring a song from the soundtrack set against scenes from the film.[citation needed] The clothing brand Provogue, which features Hrithik Roshan as its brand ambassador, launched a Kites clothing range.[citation needed] A photo shoot regarding this campaign was shot in the Maldives featuring Hrithik Roshan and Bárbara Mori.[10]

International versions

While the Hindi version of Kites was released May 21, 2010 in India, the international version was released one week later, on May 28, 2010. The film was scheduled to be released in over 60 countries.[2]

In addition to its original subtitled version, Kites was scheduled to be released in a second international English version as Kites:The Remix,[2] "presented by" Brett Ratner and recut by his regular editor, Mark Helfrich, with new music by Graeme Revell.[11]

Box office

Box Office India said the film "opened to a bumper response at most places" in India, but noted "reports are not encouraging, the biggest reason being the film has a lot of English and Spanish dialogue."[12]

On its first weekend in the North America, the film opened in 208 theaters and ranked #10 in the box office, grossing $958,673.[7] It was the first Bollywood movie to reach the weekend top ten, though My Name is Khan had a larger first-weekend North American gross, with $1.9 million at 120 theaters, reaching #13.[7] Kites debuted at #5 in the UK, with an opening of £274,000 from 70 screens.[13] Overall the film was rated as a flop by Box Office India,[14] and in media outlets.[15][16][17]

Critical reception

The film received an 82% positive rating on the film critics aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus being, "Thoroughly overwrought in true Bollywood fashion, Kites is deeply flawed —and too effervescently charming to resist."[18] The movie generally received mixed reviews in India. It rated 5/10 on the critics aggregate site ReviewGang.[19] The chemistry of the lead actors and the cinematography were specifically praised by Indian critics Anupama Chopra and Raja Sen.[20][21] Rajeev Masand of IBN said "Thrilling action set-pieces, a super-fluid dance number to show off Hrithik's killer moves, and repeated glimpses at the toned bodies of both lead stars. It's almost enough to forgive the uniformly bad acting of all supporting cast".[22] Anupama Chopra of NDTV said "the film doesn’t become more than the sum of its parts because the second half is flat and in places, outright foolish".[20] Noyon Jyoti Parasara of AOL India stated, "It fails in the primary promise of a love story which surpasses language barriers,"[23] while Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express calls it "really old wine in a sort-of new bottle".[24]

In the U.S., Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times called it "a lovers-on-the-lam blast of pure pulp escapism" that "caroms from car chase to shootout, from rain dancing to bank robbing with unflagging energy. It's all completely loony, but the stunts are impressive, the photography crisp and the leads so adorably besotted that audiences might as well check their cynicism at the door.[25] Frank Lovece of Film Journal International said, "Bollywood enters telenovela territory in a hybrid film that takes the heightened emotions, wild tonal ranges and impeccably crisp technique of modern Hindi cinema and puts all that in the service of a tragic love story straight out of Mexican TV. ... As an old-style Hollywood romance in modern dress, it delivers what people say they want when they say, 'They don't make pictures like that anymore.'"[11] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times said the film "draws from westerns, musicals, film noir [and] chase thrillers with stunts so preposterous they verge on parody — and it gets away with everything because of [director] Basu's visual bravura and unstinting passion and energy."[26]

Awards and nominations

2011 Zee Cine Awards

Won[27]

  • Best Cinematography - Ayananka Bose

Nominated[28]

  • Best Female Debut - Bárbara Mori

Music

Kites
Soundtrack album by Rajesh Roshan
Label T-series

Kites' original music is by Rajesh Roshan and the lyrics are by Nasir Faraaz and Asif Ali Beg.[2] Variety Magazine said the music "ranges from hip-hop to Enya-esque ululating."[29]

Kites: The Remix was almost completely re-scored with new music by Graeme Revell.

Track listing

No. Title Artist(s) Length
1. "Zindagi Do Pal Ki"   KK  
2. "Dil Kyun Yeh Mera"   KK  
3. "Tum Bhi Ho Wahi"   Vishal Dadlani, Suraj Jagan  
4. "Kites In The Sky"   Hrithik Roshan, Javed Dayma, Suzanne D'Mello  
5. "Fire"   Rajesh Roshan, Vishal Dadlani, Anirudh, Anushka Manchanda  
6. "Fire English Version"   Rajesh Roshan, Vishal Dadlani, Anushka Manchanda  

References

  1. ^ Kites at ComingSoon.net
  2. ^ a b c d e "Official Kites Website". Kites-thefilm.com. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2011-10-06. 
  3. ^ Kites at Fandango.com
  4. ^ "Reliance Big Pictures And Filmkraft’S Most Awaited Romantic Film Kites To Release on 21st May, 2010". Official website. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2010-10-05. 
  5. ^ "Hrithik Roshans Kites Budget At 60 Crore". Ehritik. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2010-05-27. 
  6. ^ "Kites Life Time Business". Boxofficeindia. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2010-07-03. 
  7. ^ a b c d e Subers, Ray. "Arthouse Audit: 'Kites' Flies, 'Babies' Maintains Grip", BoxOfficeMojo.com, May 25, 2010
  8. ^ "Boxofficeindia.com". Boxofficeindia.com. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2011-10-06. 
  9. ^ "Kites Grosses 21 Crores Opening Day in India Becoming the Second Highest Opening Ever", Reliance BIG Pictures press release
  10. ^ "Hrithik, Barbara Mori in Maldives for ad shoot". Indiatimes. 20 April 2010. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2010-08-14. 
  11. ^ a b Lovece, Frank. "Film Review: Kites", Film Journal International, May 19, 2010
  12. ^ "Kites Bumper opening, dull reports", BoxOfficeIndia.com, May 22, 2010. WebCitation archive.
  13. ^ Gant, Charles (May 25, 2010). "StreetDance 3D shimmies into first place at UK box office". Guardian (London). class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2010-05-27. 
  14. ^ "Top Lifetime Grossers 2010-2019". Boxofficeindia.com. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2011-10-06. 
  15. ^ "Top 10 Flop Bollywood Movies in 2010 – 2011". 2011-01-15. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2011-06-02. 
  16. ^ "Kites is a flop: It is Official". 2010-06-10. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2011-06-02. 
  17. ^ "Kites to incur heavy losses to its distributors". 2010-05-27. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2011-06-02. 
  18. ^ Kites at RottenTomatoes.com
  19. ^ "Kites" at ReviewGang
  20. ^ a b Anupama Chopra. Kites review, NDTV.com
  21. ^ Raja Sen. Kites review, Rediff.com
  22. ^ Rajeev Masand IBN
  23. ^ Parasara, Noyon Jyoti. "Kites Review". AOL India. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 21 May 2010. 
  24. ^ Shubhra Gupta Kites (review) at Indian Express
  25. ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette. "Bollywood Does Vegas", The New York Times, May 21, 2010
  26. ^ Thomas, Kevin. "Movie Review: 'Kites' flies on energy, passion", Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2010
  27. ^ "Winners of Zee Cine Awards 2011". Bollywood Hungama. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2011-01-14. 
  28. ^ "Nominations for Zee Cine Awards 2011". zorsebol.com. class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2011-04-07. 
  29. ^ DeBruge, Peter. Kites (review), Variety, May 20, 2010

External links

  • Official website
  • Kites at the Internet Movie Database
  • Kites at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Kites at Box Office Mojo
  • Kites at AllRovi
  • Kites at Bollywood Hungama

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