Saturday 2 March 2013
Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh, Raj Kumar Yadav, Amrita Puri
Kai Po Che is a screen adaptation of the fiction novel "The 3 Mistakes of my Life" written by Chetan Bhagat. It is directed by Abhishek Kapoor, the man who made Rock On . Rock On was a fabulous film, and Kai Po Che is definitely a good film.
Although I found the book quite ordinary, I loved the movie on the same story. Chetan Bhagat never made me realize the substance this book possessed. But the film maker surely succeeded in doing that in this movie adaptation.
Kai Po Che has many great scenes that keeps you craving for more, the screenplay moves at a mild speed but you never get bored. Almost everyone in the lead has acted well and the background score is another high point of the film. The music by Amit Trivedi is brilliant and carries the tone of the film.
Almost all the scenes are from the book but the reconstruction makes it look better. The real life incidents mentioned in the film are well mixed up with the fictitious characters. Some of the biggest issues/entities in India; cricket, politics and religion are depicted beautifully and carefully in Kai Po Che.
The cast is inexperienced but talented, Abhishek Kapoor managed to extract something really extraordinary from the three of them. Sushant Singh Rajput steals the show, Raj Kumar Rao deliberately underplayed his part to perfection.
If you liked Dil Chahta Hai, Rang De Basanti, 3 Idiots, Zindagi na Milegi Dobara or any other coming of age story driven by a tale of friendship, then Kai Po Che is going to be another one on that list.
By the way, CB did write the screenplay for the movie. My assumption is that his restructuring of the story may have helped.
ReplyDeletePersonally, while I thought the movie was very earnest, it took a lot of time to get to the point! Felt too slow to me.
In a post apocalyptic era of films where one man fights against 250 men and then does the "chinta ta chita chita" with no pain in his ass. Kai Po Che seems like a ray of hope.
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