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Kaante (Thriller Movie ,)  Starring
Director : Sanjay Gupta |
Synopsis
Director Sanjay Gupta’s Kaante is a gritty crime thriller featuring a host of top Bollywood stars including Amitabh Bachchan,
Sanjay Dutt and Sunil Shetty. Pitted alongside them are Kumar Gaurav, Mahesh Manjrekar and singer-turned-actor Lucky Ali.
Based on the story of six bank robbers, Kaante is the Indianized rehash of Quentin Tarantino’s hit Hollywood potboiler
Reservoir Dogs.
The film takes off with the release from the prison of a veteran gangster called Major (Amitabh). Major is tired of life behind the
bars. And, instead of reforming, he plans to pull off a grand heist and rest on his laurels for the remainder of his life. So he
hatches a meticulous plan to rob a bank and decides to team up with five more accomplices.
The first one to tag along is Ajju (Sanjay Dutt), a notorious chap who has had some experience in robbing banks. And soon others come
along. They are – Baali (Mahesh Manjrekar) a drug addict, Bouncer (Sunil Shetty) a quiet but dangerous man, and Mak (Lucky Ali) a cool
dude with a who-cares attitude. The sixth man Andy (Kumar Gaurav) is an undercover cop who has joined the gang to spy and foil their
plan.
The six men assume different identities and names to prevent the plan from leaking out. But someone has already spilled the beans. He
is Ajju, who has spoken about the robbery to his wife (Shilpa Shetty). Ajju’s wife in turn put a dangerous idea into his mind – which
is to kill the other five after the robbery and walk away with the loot.
The D-Day comes when the six get into the bank and rob it at gunpoint. But before they could get away, police arrives and a shootout
follows. Somehow the six manage to escape and meet again in a dilapidated warehouse. They are sure there is a ‘rat’ (informer) among
them. But who is he? No one trusts the other and soon guns are drawn.
Will Andy’s cover be blown? Who will get away with the loot?
Review
Kaante is a daring attempt by director Sanjay Gupta who has surpassed the Bollywood’s filmmaking standards in presenting the
story of a gang of bank robbers who don’t trust each other.
The film, shot entirely in the US, has all the important technicians from Hollywood – right from cinematography and stunt co-ordinators
to music supervisor.
The movie boasts of an impressive starcast and Gupta has deftly put all of them on almost equal footage without focusing on any
particular character only.
Amitabh Bachchan’s strong screen presence doesn’t seem to blanche the performances by other key players in the movie. Sanjay Dutt
plays the reckless trigger-happy guy with flamboyance while Sunil Shetty too delivers a restricted but a polished performance.
Mahesh Manjrekar is the man who catches a viewer’s attention with his emphatic portrayal of a drug addict who likes to live life on
the edge. His sequences with Bachchan and with Dutt are well written and packed with some impressive histrionics from Manjrekar.
On the other hand, Kumar Gaurav and Lucky Ali look more sober and suave men who like less talking but more action.
Although a rough rehash of the Hollywood potboiler ‘Reservoir Dogs’, Kaante is a film that blends well Bollywood sensibilities
with Hollywood’s cinematic presentation.
Right from the outset the film grips the viewer, takes him into an imaginative realm of a gang of criminals and shows how their
grandiose plans of pulling off a grand heist turns sour due to the mistrust among them. Definitely worth a watch.