Kites

After Life In A Metro, you would have thought [Anurag] Basu's considerable story-telling skills could have only have ratcheted up. But both for him, and for [Hrithik] Roshan, who comes out after three years, Kites is a good-looking disappointment.

The technically accomplished result is cheesy, engaging but unmemorable 'time-pass'

Roshan anchors the film with a solid, believable performance and a palpable chemistry with his co-star that will remind audiences just how hot a good Bollywood romance can be.

Deliriously entertaining and shamelessly derivative.

To anyone versed in Bollywood conventions, it's a natural outgrowth of the genre, and a comically overwrought but still generally fun time.

The pulp is served thick, with so much sincerely purple passion it's disarming.

Sadly, it flounders even before it can take off and soar.

Power, passion, revenge, heartbreak, heartache, tragedy, joy, lust, and love. Let yourself soar with KITES and a love that knows no boundaries, no barriers, a love that is eternal.

Instead of being moved by the story, I was thinking more about the many illogical plot points in the film.

a straight-to-video tale that somehow mysteriously managed to find its way to the silver screen.