Kaminey (spoiler alert)
I think the bit in the end of the film was like an alternative ending, an epilogue covering What If. Unlike the harry potter book 7 epilogue that left no room for doubt and nothing to the imagination. The ending of the Scrubs series was an antithesis to J K Rowling's format, showing us a beautiful picture of how it may be, but not promising anything, and leaving it at that. Tasteful. As for the Kaminey ending, i think it answered the question - What if Charlie had taken the morally wrong path, as he would normally have done, if sanctimonious Guddu’s annoying speech hadn’t rung out in his ears among the apocalyptic battle sounds? If he had picked up the diamonds and run, if he had found Guddu and girlie, if they had all made up and become a heppy family, if he had pawned one diamond for his bookie stall / racecourse (surely that rock was worth more than 10lakh?)… He would have kept the other diamond for the dreamy type girl to put on her finger. More conclusive evidence that the ending wasn’t ‘real’ lies in the fact that Charlie was with this jauntily hatted woman at the races, when his relationship with Mikhail was so charmingly homo-erotic. (How very bong of the Bengali gangster brothers to name him after a Russian president! Or of their bong parents, whatever…)
So, the ending was a clip showing the Path He Didn’t Take, since according to their dad, it’s the path you don’t take that fucks you, rather than the one you do take. Perhaps this was obvious to everyone else? Perhaps not, because the bear still thinks Charlie picked up the diamonds before he got shot….
A feel good explanation would be that Charlie didn’t die from the gun wound, but survived to pick up the diamonds after the battle, having once tried the path of morality and received a bullet in his butt for his pains.
In any case, paisa vasool. Even without the brilliance of Maqbool or the adroitness of Omkara. Vishal doesn’t disappoint, and after all, we can’t expect all storytellers to be Shakespeare.
Just made and ate paneer bhurji in the new flat. We are now sitting at the dinner table with respective laptops, trying to finish much delayed office work because, alas, Monday is at hand.
So, the ending was a clip showing the Path He Didn’t Take, since according to their dad, it’s the path you don’t take that fucks you, rather than the one you do take. Perhaps this was obvious to everyone else? Perhaps not, because the bear still thinks Charlie picked up the diamonds before he got shot….
A feel good explanation would be that Charlie didn’t die from the gun wound, but survived to pick up the diamonds after the battle, having once tried the path of morality and received a bullet in his butt for his pains.
In any case, paisa vasool. Even without the brilliance of Maqbool or the adroitness of Omkara. Vishal doesn’t disappoint, and after all, we can’t expect all storytellers to be Shakespeare.
Just made and ate paneer bhurji in the new flat. We are now sitting at the dinner table with respective laptops, trying to finish much delayed office work because, alas, Monday is at hand.
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