Million times better than the Bollywood copy Kaante (2002)

Rating: 9/10 (21 May 2010)

I saw the Bollywood copy years before I saw the original because I am from Pakistan and in my region Bollywood movies are more famous and popular but I always admired movies from Hollywood and other movie industries more than Bollywood movies because I always admire good movies. I am watching movies from Hollywood and other movie industries since my childhood but much less than Bollywood movies but in last 2 3 years my love towards movies from Hollywood and other movie industries just skyrocketed and I now watch lots of movies from Hollywood and other movie industries and very few Bollywood movies.
In that process I saw many movies that Bollywood copied from other movie industries and Reservoir Dogs is one of them.
Unless you consider adding songs and other Bollywood garbage big difference, Kaante is a complete copy of Reservoir Dogs even some dialogues and scenes are just translated including the scene when Mr. White argues Mr. Blonde about why he started shooting everybody during the robbery. Creators of Kaante added some additional scenes so they can say that their movie is not a copy, those scenes include a scene at the beginning of the movie when main characters meet at a jail and start planning a robbery because they are so angry at the police, this is also a copied scene and copied from The Usual Suspects. Another additional scene feature the robbery scene but the robbery is a complete reenactment of the conversations between the main characters of Reservoir Dogs about the robbery. For the record, I used the word 'copy' rather than 'remake' because the creators of Kaante never admit that their movie is a remake of Reservoir Dogs they just quietly copied it.
Now about the original movie. Its just great, despite the fact I already knew many things about this movie including the ending because I saw the Bollywood copy before I saw Reservoir Dogs I still loved this movie. Direction is brilliant, screenplay is just great the way the movie paced towards the end is just awesome, it like watching a 99 min movie in just 30 min. Every actor did a splendid job, all of them did their part perfectly, too bad they didn't got the recognition they deserved many of them are still underrated, the movie itself didn't got the recognition it deserved from awards jury.