Kites (film)

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Kites
Barbara Mori
  • Kangana Ranaut
  • Kabir Bedi
  • Nicholas Brown
    • CinematographyAyananka Bose[2]
    Edited byAkiv Ali[3]
    Mark Helfrich (English version)
    Music bySongs:
    Rajesh Roshan
    Background Score:
    Salim–Sulaiman
    Production
    company
    Distributed byReliance BIG Pictures
    Release date
    • 21 May 2010 (2010-05-21)
    Running time
    		130 minutes (Hindi version)
    90 minutes (English version)
    CountryIndia
    Languages
    • Hindi
    • English
    • Spanish
    Budget₹82 crore[5]
    Box office₹65 crore[5]

    Kites is a 2010 Indian

    Barbara Mori, Kangana Ranaut, and Kabir Bedi.[2]

    Presented in English as Kites: The Remix by

    My Name is Khan had a larger first-weekend North American gross.[7] Despite a strong opening,[8] the film only managed to collect ₹47 crore (US$10.28 million) net in its lifetime run following a critical loss. Domestically, one of the major criticisms aimed at the film was towards the multilingual narrative that featured the majority of dialogue in English and Spanish, while it was advertised as a Hindi-language film in India.[9]

    Plot

    Jay Ray (

    Anglo-Indian casino owner Bob Grover (Kabir Bedi), falls for him, Jay goes along to marry into money. He discovers that his future brother-in-law, the vicious, homicidal Tony (Nicholas Brown), is about to marry a Mexican woman named Natasha (Bárbara Mori), whom Jay knows as Linda, the last of the immigrant women he married. On the night before "Natasha" and Tony's wedding, Linda and Jay humorously agree to a "divorce" that night. A jealous, gun-wielding Tony arrives at her apartment while Jay is there. After he hits her, Linda impulsively knocks him out with a heavy object while he tussles with Jay. Linda and Jay go on the run toward Mexico, with Tony and the police in pursuit. They are helped by a friend of Jay, Robin (Anand Tiwari
    ). Robin gives them fake passports and IDs so that they can go wherever they want.

    In the following week, Jay and Linda get married in Mexico. On the day of their wedding, they come back to their house. There, Robin comes to give them the passports and is unexpectedly shot by Tony and his men. Linda and Jay escape, but Jay is shot in the process. In a car chase, Linda stops the car at a train, puts Jay aboard it, and drives off. Back to the present, Jay meets with Jamaal, one of Bob's employees, and is ambushed. Jamaal is killed but not before telling Jay of Linda's whereabouts. Jay kills off all of Tony's men and then kills Tony by smashing his face into the car door. He is shot then by Gina. He drives off to the location where Jamaal said Linda was last seen. It is shown that after Jay was put aboard the train, Linda was ambushed on a cliff and sent Jay a text message saying, "I am going...Sorry, Forget me". She drives off of the cliff, killing herself by drowning. Jay cries and then smiles, jumping off the cliff as well. Finally, he is reunited with Linda under the ocean, and they embrace through death.

    Cast

    Production

    Casting

    Deepika Padukone was approached to star opposite Hrithik Roshan, although she also turned down the offer for the some reasons.[11]

    Pre-release revenues

    Kites's worldwide distribution rights were sold for ₹1.5 billion (US$32.8 million)[12] acquired by Reliance big pictures in 2010 (except Mumbai). The satellite rights were bought by Sony TV group, while[13] the music rights were bought by T-series/Big music.[12]

    Release

    Kites was on 3000 screens in India, and across 30 countries and 500 screens globally, according to distributor

    Reliance BIG Entertainment.[14] It opened on 208 screens in North America, making it the largest Bollywood release there to that time.[7]

    Promotion

    To help promote the film, mini "music videos" were released online, each about one minute long and featuring a song from the soundtrack set against scenes from the film.[15] The clothing brand Provogue, which features Hrithik Roshan as its brand ambassador, launched a Kites clothing range.[15] A photo shoot regarding the campaign was shot in the Maldives, featuring Hrithik Roshan and Bárbara Mori.[16]

    International versions

    While the Hindi version of Kites was released on 21 May 2010 in India, the international version was released one week later, on 28 May 2010. The film was scheduled to be released in over 60 countries.[2]

    Kites was released in a second international English-language version as Kites: The Remix,[2] "Presented By" Brett Ratner, recut by his regular editor, Mark Helfrich, with new music by Graeme Revell[17] using remix techniques developed in the series Kung Faux.[18]

    Reception

    Critical reception

    The film received an 72% positive rating on the film critics aggregate site

    Indian Express calls it "really old wine in a sort-of new bottle".[25]

    In the U.S., Jeannette Catsoulis of

    musicals, film noir [and] chase thrillers with stunts so preposterous they verge on parody – and it gets away with everything because of [director] Basu's visual bravura and unstinting passion and energy."[27]

    Box office

    India

    Box Office India said the film "opened to a bumper response at most places" in India, but noted "reports are not encouraging, the biggest reason for failure are being the film has a lot of English and Spanish dialogue."[28] The film collected ₹49.27 crore (US$10.78 million) net in its lifetime run in India.[29]

    Overseas

    On its first weekend in the North America, the film opened in 208 theaters and ranked No. 10 in the box office, grossing $958,673.

    My Name is Khan had a larger first-weekend North American gross, with $1.9 million at 120 theaters, reaching #13.[7] Kites debuted at No. 10 in the UK, with an opening of £174,000 from 70 screens.[30] Overall, the film was rated as a flop by Box Office India.[8]

    The film fared very poorly in the United Kingdom and earned £9,110 on 31 screens, with the per-screen average working out to £294.[31] In the first week that both films were out together in the United States, Kites: The Remix did only one tenth of the business that the original Kites did, and less than half on a per-screen basis.[32] Box Office Mojo shows that while the original Kites film was able to become the first ever original Bollywood created film to score in the "Top Ten" of the overall Hollywood Box office tally on its opening weekend, the Kites: The Remix hybrid version only managed to place 51st on its first weekend.[32][33][34]

    Awards and nominations

    2011 Zee Cine Awards

    Won[35]

    Nominated[36]

    2011 BIG Star Entertainment Awards

    Nominated

    2011 GIMA Awards

    Nominated

    • Best Playback singer male — KK for "Zindagi Do Pal Ki"[37]

    Music

    Kites
    Hindi
    English
    Spanish
    LabelT-Series
    BIG Music
    ProducerRajesh Roshan
    Rajesh Roshan chronology
    Krazzy 4
    (2008)     		Kites
    (2010)     		Krrish 3
    (2013)

    Kites music album was composed by

    Aníron" (Theme for Aragorn and Arwen), written by Enya for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", though Enya is not given any composer's credit for the music in Kites.[39]

    Kites: The Remix was almost completely re-scored with new music by Graeme Revell.

    Track No Song Singer Duration Composer
    1 "Zindagi Do Pal Ki" KK 4:16 Rajesh Roshan
    2 "Dil Kyon Yeh Mera" KK 5:36 Rajesh Roshan
    3 "Tum Bhi Ho Wahi" Vishal Dadlani & Suraj Jagan 3:55 Rajesh Roshan
    4 "Kites in the Sky" Hrithik Roshan & Suzanne D'Mello 5:41 Rajesh Roshan
    5 "Fire" Rajesh Roshan, Vishal Dadlani, Anirudh, Anushka Manchanda 4:27 Rajesh Roshan
    6 "Fire" (English Version) Rajesh Roshan, Vishal Dadlani, Anushka Manchanda 4:27 Rajesh Roshan
    7 "Zindagi Do Pal Ki" (Remix) KK, Remix by : DJ A-Myth 3:46 Rajesh Roshan
    8 "Dil Kyon Yeh Mera" (Remix) KK, Remix by : DJ A-Myth 3:30 Rajesh Roshan
    9 "Tum Bhi Ho Wahi" (Remix) Vishal Dadlani, Suraj Jagan, Remix by : DJ A-Myth 4:00 Rajesh Roshan

    References

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    3. Fandango.com
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    5. ^ a b "Kites". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015.
    6. ^ "'Positive about Brett's cut'". Hindustan Times. 27 May 2010.
    7. ^ a b c d e Subers, Ray. "Arthouse Audit: 'Kites' Flies, 'Babies' Maintains Grip", BoxOfficeMojo.com, 25 May 2010
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    12. ^ a b "Bollywood Cinema News | Bollywood Movie Reviews | Bollywood Movie Trailers - IndiaGlitz Bollywood". Archived from the original on 29 May 2010.
    13. ^ "Big Pictures bags 'Kites' worldwide marketing, distribution rights". Indian Television Dot Com. 6 February 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
    14. ^ "Kites Grosses 21 Crores Opening Day in India Becoming the Second Highest Opening Ever" Archived 29 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Reliance BIG Pictures press release
    15. ^ a b "Hrithik roshan and barbara mori kites provogue collection". PINKVILLA. May 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
    16. ^ "Hrithik, Barbara Mori in Maldives for ad shoot". Indiatimes. 20 April 2010. Archived from the original on 11 May 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
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    37. ^ "Asha Bhosle, Sonu Nigam and Shaan at the Chevrolet GIMA Awards 2011 Conference". MissMalini | Latest Bollywood, Fashion, Beauty & Lifestyle News. 1 September 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
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    39. ^ Kites Swipes Song from Lord of the Rings at AccessBollywood.net

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