Kites has been the most anticipated movie for the year 2009. The whole theme about it is being touted as international, with keeping the foreign audience in mind. While Bollywood is trying and experimenting new technologies, Kites is only pushing the envelope a little further in the whole treatment to its theme, array of actors and locations. It is the film which will appeal to the international standards.
Starring Bollywood’s hearthrob Hrithik Roshan along with Kangana Ranaut and Mexican beauty Barbara Mori, the film was marketed heavily at the 62 nd Cannes Film Festival to attract Spaniards from across the word. Kites also star Nick Brown and Kabir Bedi.
Altough it has been in news for all the wrong reasons; at one point one had heard of even a split between Hrithik and his wife Suzanne, not on talking terms with his dad and of course his alleged affair with co- star Barbara Mori.
Set in Las Vegas, Kites has Hrithik playing a salsa teacher. Kangana plays a very rich girl and is shown as Hrithik’s dance student. In the course of learning Salsa, Kangana(Gina) falls madly in love with Jay (Hrithik Roshan). Jay was once a clever, street smart and charming guy, but is now a wanted man. To add to his woes he’s left to die in the scorching heat of the Mexican desert, where only one desire keeps him alive– to find the woman he loves.
That woman is Natasha (Barbara Mori) who is already engaged to another man. But that makes no difference to J. Here comes a twist and the romantic story turns into a thriller.
Barbara Mori’s character Natasha is a girl who speaks only Spanish and will be seen in the first half of the film. Hrithik on the other hand speaks only Hindi with a few words of broken English and does not understand Spanish. So he speaks to her in Hindi and yet the two communicate and fall madly in love.
But then something happens that forces the two to split and that’s where Kangana (Gina) steps in and brings in a love triangle.
Since the movie has a lot of non Hindi dialogues, director Anurag Basu and Rakesh Roshan will be releasing the film with subtitles in both Hindi and English.
Kites has been extensively been shot in the US, covering New Mexico, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. It has also been heavily shot in Mumbai for a majority of indoor scenes.
Slated for release on Diwali, is targeted at both Indian as well as the world markets and hence, will earmark the widest release ever for an Indian film. BIG Pictures, the Motion Pictures Brand of Reliance Big Entertainment, has acquired worldwide marketing & distribution rights of KITES. It is Filmkraft’s (Rakesh Roshan’s company) most ambitious project yet.
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