The song Dhan te nan has taken over the radio and ring tones. The film promos have made people curious about Shahid Kapoor’s double role and Priyanka Chopra’s deglamorised avatar.
While nervousness and last-minute jitters have hit the cast and crew, especially after the Censor Board gave it an ‘A’ certificate, Kapoor sounds excited about Kaminey.
He has reasons to. The film releases on August 14 with around 1,100 prints, which officially makes it his biggest release. He also believes that this has been his most challenging role and possibly even the best double role he has ever seen. “Both my characters have speech defects. Charlie has a lisp and says ‘sa’ for ‘fa’ which Guddu stammers. It was quite difficult to get both right,” he says.
The film required Kapoor to research on people with speech disability. “Our aim was to understand not only the medical reasons — why and how these happen — but also the psychological aspects — what people with these impediments feel, what they have to go through emotionally.
We met with some stammering clubs in Bandra and interacted with them extensively.” One of the scenes in the movie is, in fact, inspired by such a meeting. “A guy told us an incident from his life. Vishal [Bhardwaj] was so moved by this that he made it a part of the film,” says Kapoor.
–Agencies