Kaminey: The Scoundrels (2009) on Netflix
In Mumbai, Charlie lisps and his twin Guddu stutters. Charlie loses his savings in a fixed horse race, and Sweety, a politician's sister, is pregnant with Guddu's child.
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Plot summary
Charlie and Guddu are twins from Mumbai's slums. Charlie works at a racecourse for three brothers who fix races, hoping to become a bookmaker, and is closer to the youngest, Mikhail, than to Guddu, a social worker. A jockey cheats Charlie of his savings in a fixed race, and he follows the man to a city hotel, where he makes off with a van holding cocaine that two corrupt policemen meant to deliver to a drug lord. Guddu's lover Sweety, whose brother Sunil Shekhar Bhope is a politician, tells him she is pregnant and wants to marry. They wed that night; Bhope sends men who beat Guddu at the wedding, and Sweety fights them off and escapes with him.
Cast
- Deb Mukherjeeas Mujib
- Om Prakashas Burgess
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kaminey: The Scoundrels (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Priyanka Chopra initially turned down the role of Sweety in Kaminey, feeling it was a boys' film and that her eight-scene part was not good enough; Vishal Bhardwaj then persuaded her to accept it.
- During a late-night shoot for a scene in Pune, Priyanka Chopra and Shahid Kapoor fell off a motorcycle that skidded on mud; Kapoor was unhurt but Chopra suffered scratch marks and bruises.
- Vishal Bhardwaj bought the original script of Kaminey for US$4,000 from Kenyan writer Cajetan Boy, three years after Boy sent him another draft of an idea first shown at a 2005 scriptwriting workshop held by Mira Nair.
- Screenwriter Amole Gupte, who was cast in Kaminey at the suggestion of casting director Honey Terhan, hung up on Terhan, thinking the call offering him an important role was a joke.
- Kaminey's makers were disappointed when the Censor Board gave the film an "A" certificate instead of the "U/A" they had expected; Vishal Bhardwaj called it an injustice, and the Board made him replace a dialogue reference to Pilibhit with a fictitious city name.
- Jagannath Sena Sangathan filed a First Information Report in Puri alleging Kaminey denigrated Lord Jagannath with a toilet-wall slogan; the objectionable portion of the scene was removed from prints released in Orissa.
- Kaminey's chart-topping song "Dhan Te Nan" was a rehashed version of a song Vishal Bhardwaj had originally composed for an episode of the Zee TV series Gubbare.
- Vishal Bhardwaj had Kaminey's entire cast and crew watch caper classics such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Pulp Fiction and True Romance to study the genre's nuances.
