Kaamyaab Movie Review

Kaamyaab asks us to do something that we dont usually do shift focus from the hero to the actor in the periphery of the frame.

Mehta never strays far from the meta themes though. While he doffs a hat to Tun Tun, Bob Christo, and Keshto Mukherjee among others, a host of fitting cameos make fleeting appearances too.

Sanjay Mishra’s outstanding performance is complemented admirably by Deepak Dobriyal, Avtar Gill and Sarika Singh. The screenplay is insightful, if not blindingly revelatory.

It ends with an ode to character actors who aren’t with us anymore and that is perhaps the best part. Kaamyaab makes you feel sad about the condition of character actors in the movies, but it won’t hold you for too long.

Kaamyaab is an ode to Bollywood, the larger-than-life movies and their actors, bizarre wigs, love, drama, friendship passion but most importantly, it is about ones ability to realise their dreams even when the chips are down.

Hardik Mehta has penned a story and screenplay which are about the film industry, its working and its typicalities.