I’m not a connoisseur of Bollywood cinema. I’ve only seen three or four films. However, those other films were much better than Kites, despite their inherent flaws. What I mean by “inherent flaws” is the stuff that’s in all Bollywood films that– from a Western perspective–makes them bad. This includes bad writing, cheesy love stories, nonsensical dance and action sequences, and very, very bad acting. Plausibility is also a major issue. Things happen in many (if not most) Bollywood films that don’t make any sense. In Kites, cars were flipping over and exploding just for hitting another car. That would never happen in real life. That’s physics. That’s why I refer to the “willing suspension of disbelief” in the review. Granted, there are many American films in which things happen that don’t make sense when considering our current, physical world. However, that’s forgiven and expected as long as the instances make sense in the world of the film (which may not be our current, physical world). In Kites and other Bollywood films, the stuff that makes no sense doesn’t make sense in our world OR the world of the film. That’s a major problem.

I’m not against Bollywood cinema, and I even like some of it. However, you have to look objectively at it. For a film to be good, the elements that make up that film (acting, writing, cinematography, music, etc.) must also be good (if not all, some of them). You can’t make a good film when all elements are bad. That’s the problem with Kites.

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