Kaante (2002)

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

After watching the full movie I gave 7/10 ... In my opinion Kaante is far batter then Reservoir dogs..due to it ,good direction, music,its hazy vintage picturisation expressing the past ... Very nice movie..

A truck load of stolen money goes missing and the suspects have been apprehended but did they really need to drag out the interrogation process? I mean seriously in the beginning it seemed fine but this film nearly clocked 3 hours just based on unnecessary scenes. The acting was top-notch and I loved the song and dance sequences by Isha Koppikar and Malaika Arora-Khan which were great. You can tell a lot went into the thought and making of this film from the location (Los Angeles, California) to the all star cast including but not limited to: Amitabh Bachchan, Lucky Ali, Suneil Shetty, Sanjay Dutt, Gulshan Grover, and others. Helmed by the maestro Sanjay Gupta.

i have seen this movie for more than 200 times.but i want to watch it again and again.in this movie every thing is great.all of actors are professional in their characters.but sometimes some people who don't know any thing about cinema said that:this is a copy from reserves dogs.i hase only one answer to say. imagine i order you to make some copies from a page.of course all of copies are in the worse qualities in compare with original page. now imagine that i order you to write a new story from an old story and in the new one you are free to change so many things and some times the result of this originality will be much better than original story. i forgot to say one more thing Tarantino movie is not an original film its made from an old American movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To say honestly, this is probably one of the best Bollywood films from recent years. Considering that it's a total ripoff (and not the first time) of Hollywood crime and gangster movies, that's saying a lot.The movie revolves around six Indian hoods living in L.A., each with a history or current involvement in crime. You have leader Major (Amitabh Bachchan), loose cannon Ajju (Sanjay Dutt), club bouncer Mark (Suneil Shetty), techie Andy (Kumar Gaurav), bumbling Bali (Mahesh Manjrekar) and his more sane partner, Mac (Lucky Ali). All of them have a desperate need for money for their own separate reasons and decide to band together and rob a bank. Upon doing so, they discover that the police were tipped off to it, and then try to discover which of them is an undercover cop.The plot can be split into three separate acts, most of the first being derived from The Usual Suspects, the second from Heat, and the third from Reservoir Dogs. The first part (having little to do with the rest of the movie) serves as a character setup, through a police interrogation about a truck, the second about the planning of the robbery, and the third as it's aftermath. Every sequence taken almost page by page off their "inspiration." It's here that most would differ on the film, but I'm looking beyond.All of the actors are well cast, save perhaps Lucky Ali and Kumar Gaurav. All a great at playing the tough guy, yet also as their individual characters. Sanjay Dutt portrays an essence of total badass gangsta, and Manjrekar provides some of the film greatest laughs as a bafoon with an affinity for sex an obscene jokes.Which brings me to my next point. I have never seen an Indian movie with the amount of swearing and vulgar content as this one, probably because of it's Western source material. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind it, but it goes to extremes. I didn't get the idea of an Indian strip club nor how and why the six got to where they were. The film makes a point that there is a huge Indian crime culture in L.A., which I don't believe for a second.Wowing me were definitely some fun jokes as I mentioned above, and the centerpiece shootout with the cops, referencing almost every big action sequence in film. Mindless, but fun. The de-saturated green picture gave it a gritty look adding to the feel. And of, course, no Bollywood movie is complete without songs, and luckily this one gives us a couple memorable ones which fit the movie, and serve more as background score rather than part of the story.All in all a fun flick that in fun to look at and watch. Maybe I'm going soft on it since I am very fond of the three aforementioned Hollywood movies, but this movie takes those plot lines and makes them its own. 3/4 stars