Tuesday

Kites Doesn’t Soar Too High

J., played by Hrithik Roshan, is a dance teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada. As an alternate source of income, J. and his partner Robin, decides to marry immigrant women for their money and to get them a green card. When Gina, the rich daughter of a powerful casino owner falls for him, J. goes along in order to marry into money. He doesn’t love her but realizes that she’s a Daddy’s girl and whatever she wants, she gets.

He discovers that his future brother-in-law, the vicious, homicidal Tony is about to marry a Mexican woman named Natasha (the spanish Barbara Mori), whom J. knows as Linda, the last of the immigrant women he married. On the night before “Natasha” and Tony’s wedding, Linda and J. spend a romantic but chaste night, humorously agreeing to a “divorce.” A jealous, gun-wielding Tony, however, arrives at her apartment while J. is there, and after he hits her, Linda impulsively knocks him out with a heavy object while he tussles with J. Linda and J. go on the run toward Mexico, with Tony and police in pursuit.

Now with that said, Kites is definitely not a movie that has stayed with the tried and true Bollywood flavor, turning into the many hundred American movies that are released yearly. Kites is a very bad movie and it only serves Hrithik Roshan female fans who love to watch his tall body move like a rubber band (I still don’t know how he does it). Overall, it could have been a good story but it falls flat with the Hindi, spanish and english language thrown in. It should have just been told and then wonderfully executed.

But this director decided to make it a love tragedy that he amped up on steroids. The music of the movie does nothing to save it, and barring one song -KK’s fluid vocals on Intezar, everything else is mediocre at best. The Hrithik Roshan title track sounds like a child warbling.

Sorry, I’m a Hrithik Roshan fan too, but he wasn’t selling this movie.