Kites

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Bolly-Holly-Tele-Novella heaven, in three languages.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey

Tonally, the film from director Anurag Basu has more personalities than Sybil. Basu strictly observes the B-movie convention of giving the audience an embrace, explosion, or chase sequence at regular intervals. If you don't like the genre, wait three minutes.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Melodrama, romance and action are cheerfully jumbled together, so as long as you're ready to embrace the excess of swoony sentimentality, you'll get more than your money's worth.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

The result is a lovers-on-the-lam blast of pure pulp escapism, so devoted to diversion that you probably won’t even notice the corn.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

In its telling, the love story draws from westerns, musicals, film noir, chase thrillers with stunts so preposterous they verge on parody -- and it gets away with everything because of Basu's visual bravura and unstinting passion and energy.

Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten

The story is so meandering and unbelievable that Westerners are still likely to roll their eyes. I have no idea what Indian audiences will make of Kites. The film is rousing, but it does not soar.

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

It tells a simple story - an almost archetypal story - but it does so with a lot of passion and technical sophistication.