Overalll a sub par film that tries hard to sustain your interest throughout the film but fails at doing so. Notification may includes alerts, activities & updates. Would Like to Send You Push Notifications. Check out all the details of awards won by Hindi movie Kabul Express only on Etimes. its simple, non stereo t ype, no songs, short movie, fun, action and clean dialogues.It has a meaning, m. Kabul Express Movie Awards: The movie has won Best Debut Film of a Director of National Awards. I wish they had hired the same cinematographer who picturised those amazing Ladakh scenes in Lakshya. Kabul express is definitely the best film of the year. But even there the cinematographer falls short of being outstanding. The only good part for me was seeing the landscape of Afghanistan. There are a few attempts by the director but it all fails. The one about Kapil Dev and Imran Khan is tastefully done. Kabul Express: Flawed, but thought-provoking A still from Kabul Express George Romeros Night Of The Living Dead ended with the scariest scene of all - human beings have won the battle against zombies and are now rounding them up like mad dogs, shooting them in the head and burning them. There are some light hearted moments in the car. Later they are taken captive in their jeep by the Talib that they had gone to interview. They meet up with an American journalist working with Reuters. They are on their way to talk to a Taliban who is being held in custody by some Afghans but soon a gun fight erupts and the Talib bolts.
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Arshad and John are two indian journalists who come here hoping to interview the Taliban and take help of an Afghan who becomes their guide and driver helping in seeking out the Taliban.
Some of the antics of both John and Arshad don't really help in portraying it as a serious film. The movie starts out nicely but doesn't seem believable from the start.
Kabir Khans Kabul Express is a film that extracts such vignettes of implausible possibilities in the. Both of them look totally lost in the film.Just saw Kabul Express at the World Premiere (or was it?) at Toronto International Film Festival with the Director-Kabir Khan and actors John Abraham and Arshad Warsi. Maybe a Hindi film song is his definition of normalcy. Of course, the hero of the show is Mr Taliban with his nice guy-bad reputation image, (he even carries a photo of his daughter and takes a detour to reunite with her) which leaves little room for histrionics from John Abraham and the 'firangi'female journalist. The film has its moments, mostly sculpted around Arshad Warsi's deadpan humour which doesn't desert him even in the face of death. And along the way, he ends up singing Hindi film songs with them and sharing their cigarettes, apart from indulging in healthy debates on Imran Khan versus Kapil Dev.Īnd to keep the politics more correct, there is the proverbial enemy - once again, the Pakistan army - who ends up even more inimical than the Americans. Our friendly neighbourhood Taliban kidnaps the two journalists and hitches a ride to the border in their van. Unless you take the friendly Talibani, reluctantly wielding the AK 47 to be of the same fraternity as the one-eyed Mullah Omar and the bearded Mr Bin Laden. But other than a handful of sad-looking Pakistan soldiers and solitary shots of a decrepit tank, there is little to suggest the terror within. The film unfolds essentially as a road movie and Kabul Express is the name of the van which transports two Indian journalists (John and Arshad) in search of a good story through war ravaged Afghanistan. Understandably, it would have been difficult to translate the murky politics of oil, American imperialism and Islamic fundamentalism on celluloid, but mere conversational references to contemporary history can hardly compensate for the real thing. If the filmmaker wanted to make a United 93 or a World Trade Centre - films which have successfully captured 9/11 and its aftermath - then his film on post 9/11 Afghanistan ends up as a mere docu-feature that skims through the rugged terrain and the terrible tales that hide within. Yet, ironically, Afghanistan has been so much in the news now, that any attempt to go there and not get the real story - the war, the destruction, the resurgence of the Taliban, the American excesses - can only fill the viewer with a sense of loss. Afghanistan has grabbed the headlines for so long now that any attempts to set up a camera there should be able to grab eyeballs. For Kabul Express is a travelogue - rarely made in India - set in the badlands of Taliban country. If debutant director Kabir Khan wanted to give the innovative cinema buff a taste of exotica, he somehow succeeded.
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