~ Radha Venkatraman ’12
This Vishal Bharadwaj directed and Ronnie Screwvalla produced film is a one of its kind production. Charlie and Guddu are the two roles played by Shahid Kapoor, who are identical twins, who have very different philosophies in life. Charlie, a horse bookie has a lisp and is into getting ahead in life the easy and fast way by using the short-cut. While Guddu stutters and is an AIDS activist. Priyanka Chopra the heroine of our film is Sweety, the sister of an influential politician in the city of Mumbai and Guddu’s girlfriend. The film centers around the lives of these three individuals and how fate plays a very important role in determining what is supposed to happen when their paths cross one another.
The music has been provided by Vishal Bharadwaj and lyrics by Gulzaar. The song Dhan Te Na has become a chartbuster and a crowd puller for the film. The music for the film is foot tapping and appropriate for the story line as it carry’s the movie forward. Bharadwaj has once again provided the masses with an intelligent film, one which has a very dark and eerie effect throughout. Shahid Kapoor has done a wonderful job of playing both the roles simultaneously and lives up to his father’s name. The cinematography in the movie is very artistic, while the acting and music seem to be its strongest points. All in all a total masaledar film, one which you should definitely go check out.