I went to watch this movie after hearing a lot of positive opinions about it.
I was told by people… “this movie is Indian flavored Quentin Tarantino type movies”, “this is India’s answer to Hollywood”, “you can’t miss even a minute of this movie… if you do it won’t make sense”, “this is very slickly made movie”. I was all excited and looking forward to this movie and cam back a little disappointed. Looking back, this movie had great potential to be everything that people opined about it, but it some how ended up lacking some key underlying aspects of being a mega-hit.

The first 20 minutes of movie felt like it was not going any where and the producer wasn’t sure how to or what they wanted to communicate.

The story is about twins growing up in Bombay slums – predictably one sibling is the sweet simple stuttering hero who has the girl and the other is a tough, nasty street smart troublemaker who gambles and hustles.
The sibling on the dark-side hustle hard in order to recover 100K of his gambling money and gets involved in a drug exchange program involving corrupt drug-enforcement cops at the same location.

The sweet, simple sibling has his share of grief when he discovers that the girl who he just got pregnant is the younger sister of a local gangster-turned-politician. To add to his grief, his would be gangster politician brother-in-law dislikes him since he is not local to the state (Jai Mahrashtra

The movie has some added nasty character by way of the buyer of the drugs who in turn has some visitors from Africa exchanging the drugs for blood diamonds.

The movie picks up some pace at around the mid point of the movie – just before the interval. Towards the end of the movie, the director and producers seemed tired and rush through to close it.

Now what I thought could have been done differently to make this a real classy affair:
1. Too many songs – Songs should have been kept to minimum and as background tunes to flavor scenes. That would have saved some precious time and made space for some important stuff.
2. The violence should have been laid out better – All the killings were depicted poorly. The scenes were not well laid out and even though many characters are killed, one does not feel a sense of fear or coldness since the camera positioning and scene layouts are done very poorly.
3. Speaking of poorly setup and executed scenes… the camera work is terrible. Too many and too much close-ups, make most of the movie un-memorable. Good and successful movies are full of scenes which are visually captivating and make the movie and its story absolutely memorable. Kaminey has no such scenes. The producers and directors had several opportunities to create a visually captivating movie but failed miserably at it. There are too many close-ups and too many scenes short from behind people, behind things with shakes and movements which is normally done to make the audience feel they are part of the action. In case or Kaminey that concept is over-used and instead messes up the movie.
4. Due to poorly laid-out story telling the movie is rushed at spots and makes one feel that is it poorly edited.
5. The sound recoding and sound effects are good. The background music is good, although the sound mixing is sub-optimal at a few critical spots in the movie.
6. All actors have performed well. Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Amol Gupte, et al have all done a fairly decent job.
7. Costumes: Not a huge task, but I wish they would have shown some of the characters (apart from the cops) with short hair and clean shaven look… Just about every character has long hair flowing all over the camera and screen and a scruffy unkept stubbly face.

As we left the theater, someone behind me commented that every character in this movie looked like they needed a shower, shave and a haircut. I silently chuckled in agreement.

You are true with one statement but not with the other..
Stars – Priyanka and Shahid both were awesome and did pretty well..

But we always don’t go to watch the stars.. do we? And Govinda, for me at least, is someone whose movies i would never try to miss. He’s always at his best. Keep Tushaar aside, he was not much to talk about, in the movie.

Anyways, its my view as u said