First Look: Kismat Konnection
Aziz Mirza is back. Okay, Chalte Chalte was a damp squib- but that shouldn’t stop us from looking forward to his next release after quite some time. The first look of Kismat Konnection is out, and hey, it doesn’t look bad at all.
Thankfully, neither does its lead actress, the gorgeous but sartorially-challenged Vidya Balan, who after much flak for her wardrobe on and off-screen, manages to look quite pretty here. There’s no drastic ‘makeover’ as such, but Shabina Khan’s (who replaced Aki Narula after he had differences with Vidya) styling seems to have worked well, even if it isn’t absolutely stunning. One can safely say that you can finally get over the shock of seeing her dressed as a 70’s vamp at a jewellery store launch and as a Christmas tree at the Filmfare Awards.
Okay, enough about Vidya Balan- forgive my exaggerated concern about her costumes, but I think her ‘demure Indian’ image is limiting this talented and beautiful and charming and… (okay, enough) actress who just needs a good stylist.
Vidya, of course stars alongside Shahid Kapur, who is fresh from the success of Jab We Met in this romantic comedy. The chemistry isn’t scorching, but there seems to be a nice cute vibe there- they look nice together, though time will tell how this on-screen pair clicks. Aziz Mirza’s close friend- the effervescent Juhi Chawla also stars in a guest role, and reportedly plays a gypsy woman.
The first promo has the now typical split-screens coupled with wannabe-rap type but catchy music (wonder who’s done the music) , but on the whole comes across as pretty fresh and peppy.
This should definitely be one worth looking forward to. Take a look.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Wow. Great music.
Ok,Trailer seriously gives the impression of this movie being a lot of fun
She still looks like she picked her clothes off the discount rack. He still looks like the boy with the exaggerated grown up expressions. If one were to go on looks alone then this is a damp squib. But I love Aziz Mirza’s films (yes, even Chalte Chalte), so I will brave the ear insulting Hinglish music, and the poor clothes and acting, and watch the film just for Aziz, and Juhi too.
I think the music is by Pritam. Hopefully, its original.
The teaser gives me a feel of a typical Aziz Mirza film with characters from day to day life who are “not” heroic or perfect but still has a lot of goodness in them.
Get the feeling this is going to be a damp squib.Aziz only made films with SRK and the hype worked..otherwise he was ordinary. Just my 2 cents..this film is going to disappoint.
The teaser looks great! I am a big fan of Aziz Mirza’s films so completely looking forward to this one! The song is extremely catchy and even if it does have the typical Hinglish lyrics… the music is funky and fresh. Hmm wonder who did the music..?
Shahid and Vidya don’t necessarily scream ‘chemistry’ but they look adorable and sweet. The film looks great so can’t wait!
wonderful music.unbeatable one.MOVE UR BODY NOW is marvellous
Anyone seen the dialog promos?Shahid seems to be equating acting with facial contortions and wild gesticulation :-D
Jahan, I’ve read only a few of your posts but enough to realise that you have a “thing” about Vidya Balan! Yes she was good in Parineeta – but do you know when I watched it I kept thinking of Rani in her role and HOW good she would have been instead.
You see most of you writers for this board are very biased and you are deluding yourselves if you think you aren’t!
You come to the table with pre-conceived ideas and
judgements and from that position you very rarely dissent.
I shall give you an example. Now of course as I mentioned it is quite clear that you like Vidya though you ocassionally try to disguise this prediliction. Vidya, however, is a very limited actress from my point of view. She is made for the mature role – not a bad thing in itself but when you consider the parameters of Bollywood it is not a healthy quality to possess. She just is not versatile enough. But of course when it is a Vidya balan film all sorts of excuses are at the ready from yourself because like the average school-teacher once you’ve decided who the clever kids are and who the “dunces” are, there is no changing your mind, no matter what is there right in front of your eyes.
The essence of that example can be applied to the majority of views coming from the writers from this board. Naturally most of your writers and readers share similar thought processes so a “happy and smug” feeling all round.
You see in my opinion Rani is a the “best all round actress” we have in Bollywood but then again i could be biased. The point is like with everybody else it is my opnion. Now I consider my self an educated and enlightend person who may not know the technicalties of cinema but i know what I like, like yourselves but I have no responsibilty to the public when I give opinion but you lot do.
If all you are doing when you write articles about the film-world is only from your biased perspective than what is the difference between the writer and the reader. Then the matter it is as simple as having different tastes.
I love all YR Films and really don’t rate Vidya balan’s so-called beauty or acting. Who are you lot to tell me different. And don’t say “then don’t come to this board” beacause that is not the point. The point is that you writers make yourselves out to be so insightful and knowledgeable about “everything” but how many of you have had even minor hits? I thought the point of you lot was to view aspects of film-making objectively, not to bring your personal hates and biasis to everything you don’t like and further will “never like”, no matter how good it is.
Actually, Alysha, the purpose of PFC is to allow people who love cinema a place to write about cinema.
PFC places no restrictions on what a person can write.
PFC has no editorial voice.
PFC has no responsibility to the public but to try to find good and knowledgable writers to contribute to the site to educate and entertain those readers who visit the site, other authors, and the wizard who sits behind the curtain of this site.
I think that many people believe that PFC is one unified voice with one unified position, but most of us do not agree with each others opinions or tastes, but respect each other’s rights to have them. “PFC” cannot be painted with a broad brush, the contributers here are too different.
The point of PFC is to allow us to write about what we are feeling passionate about at any given moment. If you feel that is biased, then your biases are misplaced. Because you are asking those who are passionate to be not-biased, an impossibility in any field. If we were professional film critics, then objectivity would be expected of us. But. alas, we are just the passionate.
The writers at PFC are not delusional about being biased. The concept means little to most of us who are only hear to discuss what we love. Many of us may share similar tastes, and we never stop to think about bias, objectivity, or any of those such rational terms. We are only here because we love cinema and want to share that love with the world.
If you want an unbiased opinion, I don’t know where I can suggest you read, because even amongst the professional critics worldwide, I don’t think that lack of bias exists…
t!, I respect your honest answer. It is good to feel passionate about things but sometimes there has to be growth in opinion. To constantly slate of certain types of film-making and flm-makers can begin to grate.
Most of your writers intellectualise cinema too much but you have to remember that people in the real world don’t necessarily want to watch the type of cinema the majority of your writers like or would like to be seen made! There’s space for variety.
It is the constant “putting down” and “belittling” of the same film-makers that you lot don’t like that undermines the passion for me.
We are all passionate about the things we undertake or pursue but we have to respect those who are not passionate about the things we are!
Finally the reason I come to this board sometimes is because the critics for our Indian cinema are a “laughing stock” – even the people from NDTV. Can you imagine Anupama Verma actually liked Singh is Kinng – perhaps it had something to do with the fact that Akshay Kumar was the main protagonist. Perhaps her husband is thinking of working with him, after all the choice of “stars” for film vehicles is not abundant.
Now you may pick me up on my criticism of SIK but there is “variety” and then there is “stupidity”. I think Rajiv Masand put he’s case forward very succintly in his review of “that” film.
Alysha….on this site people such as SRK, Bhansali, Johar, Yash Chopra, Aamir, …and most of your so -called ‘mainstream’ film personalities have been praised as well as criticized…It’s not one-sided as you have concluded from your inadequate research..
Well zoomin, thank you for your patronizing words! I appreciate those “gestures” of praise. Perhaps they make you lot feel a lot more open-minded and fair – give yourselves a “pat on the back”.
@Alysha,
“Most of your writers intellectualise cinema too much…….”
i do believe if you have a look at the archives and comments here you will find a ‘passionate’ response to every ‘intellectual’ one
” There’s space for variety. ” – which i hope is what u find here
“It is the constant “putting down” and “belittling” of the same film-makers that you lot don’t like that undermines the passion for me.”
when u compartmentalize every author here as ‘you lot’ and ‘most of ur writers’ theres a sense that people writing here write with an agenda reflecting the platform which is not at all accurate as t! has pointed out.
im sure you know and hope you agree with what i am saying. we are all keen for more people writing here. do write in with ur POV on cinema if you can
http://passionforcinema.com/about/#iview
DPac, thanks for replying.
I may consider writing in someday if I am feeling really passionate about something.
Alysha, I was about to ask you the same thing!!!
PFC always encourages people to submit articles, especially when they are refreshing and new with different viewpoints.
I would love to see you send a post because you are articulate and smart and passionate, your comments are great so your posts must be also! Besides, we need more female voices here ;)
To address your statement, “To constantly slate of certain types of film-making and film-makers can begin to grate”. I can see your point, but keep in mind that this community grew the way it did because people who have a similar viewpoint gravitated toward this site because these types of films and these filmmakers were being ignored by the MSM. It happened organically, not because of any agenda. If the MSM would pay more attention to this type of cinema, we might lose our readership.
You are right about those in the real world not appreciating this type of cinema, but those people have multiple other outlets for entertainment news and coverage. Although, I do believe that many of us here don’t understand why that type of cinema is important, why people who like masala/naach/gaana/bollywoood filmi aren’t dolts but the bread and butter of the industry, and people whose tastes should never be derided. I personally wish that there were fewer words spilt about that topic on PFC, but that is what makes PFC so vibrant and interesting, all the different opinions and ideas available here…
Whew! How come I missed all this fun? Though it is too late for a response now, I guess, here’s my two (or maybe a few more) cents.
1. You are clearly making a mountain out a molehill, please you may have the vidya, but don’t lose your balan(ce)1
2.”Now of course as I mentioned it is quite clear that you like Vidya though you ocassionally try to disguise this prediliction”
- When have i tried to disguise it? I think I am very clearly stating my intense liking for her.
3. To each his own. I still think she is a very good actress with immense potential. I did not think of Rani during Parineeta… can’t imagine her in it after watching VB. As far as range is concerned, her choice of roles afer Parineeta hasn’t really allowed her to explore any range as an actress really- looking fwd to ishqiya. I think she’ll prove herself there.
4. As far as being biased is concerned, I would flatly deny that, atleast as far as judging films starring her goes.
http://jahansinghbakshi.blogspot.com/2008/07/review-kismat-konnection.html