Genre: Drama / Romance
Tagline: Two strangers. One stormy night.
User Comments: A warm love story on a Rainy night.
Credited cast:
Kareena Kapoor .... Chameli
Rahul Bose .... Aman Kapoor
Rinke Khanna .... Neha
Some actors grow on you even though you had dislikes because of the initial type-casting, the case in point is Kareena Kapoor. It is easy to dismiss her as a mediocre or run of the mill Bollywood actress that made it to fame because of connections or whatever. But when she gets to the skin of the charecter, you slowly change your opinion and keep an open mind about the capacity of an actor to emote-albeit she is not in the same class as Rahman or a Dixit.
Circumstances bring together this couple who seem to be woven from different fabric but the commonality of caring and sharing weaves an heartwarming story, that reveals shamelessly lot of the ugliness; that is the underworld that the very society tries to sweep under the rug. Rahul Bose is never a disappointement and he shows that he can play a charecter better than any of the current crop of Actors, who seem to have a chip on their shoulders and they overact to cover their inferiorty complex-as a matter of fact I think he would have been perfect to play the leading part in Kal Ho Na Ho, but the status quo that makes Bollywood the boringwood, we are forced to watch the same idiot in every other movie.
In Chameli-the flame of love keeps burning even it was a lit by a ’’whore’’.
I actually rented this film because of Rahul Bose. He is quite the actor and has done rather well for himself in the ’’Art Cinema’’ genre of Bollywood with film’s such as, Mr. & Mrs. Iyer; Everybody Says I’m Fine to name a few.
But I was mildly surprised with Kareena Kapoor’s acting capabilities. I always pictured her as the scantly clad, self-absorbed and bitchy ’’poo’’ from the film ’’Kabhie Kushe Kabhie Gham’’ (A movie I unfortunately sat through....my solace...I only saw it half-way) and thought of her as another shallow 20something actress. She fits the role like a glove and the film is cinematically appealing to the palate as well.
Shot in the monsoon drenched locales of Bombay with catchy songs (Bhaage Re Man, Sajna Ve and the female rendition of Jaane being my favourites) reminded me of good times spent in Bombay.