kaminey

Kaminey” stars Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. Kapoor stars as twins Guddu and Charlie, identical twins in their early twenties hoping to leave the slums behind and hoping for a better life filled with riches. Growing up in Dharavi, the world’s largest slum.Guddu works as a trainee in a small NGO firm in the city. He hopes to climb up to the top of the corporate ladder, hoping he could become a bona fide member of the burgeoning Indian middle class. His career has only just begun though and the road to bourgeoisie is both long and arduous. Guddu is honest, diligent and careful. One defining characteristic about Guddu is that he stammers, especially when under pressure.Charlie on the other hand makes a living hedging bets at the race course. Being around rich people at the race course inspires him to want to become a bookie so he can permanently be in this environment, not to mention pocket some easy money. Charlie is street smart, wily and brave--and he is a little rough around the edges, having become accustomed to street life. While Guddu stammers, Charlie has a lisp.The two brothers do not like each other and feel like they have nothing in common due to their stark differences. They keep their own goals as their primary reasons for existing, caring little for the dilemma of the other brother. Because of their different lifestyles, they’re never around each other, which explains even why as identical twins, their appearances are different.Intercut between the parallel stories of the brothers as they run to protect themselves is their dreams and their love until a point where it converges and the brothers meet to come upon a life-changing realization. The story of “Kaminey” is how all of these changes and their paths eventually cross. This movie can become the feel good tale of the summer.