Review: 'Kites' has passion, Bollywood style - San Francisco Chronicle

Barbara Mori and Hrithic Roshan's characters share plenty of love, but no sex.

The Bollywood film "Kites" is being released in two versions. Here in the Bay Area, we're so cool that we're getting the original 130-minute version. In other parts of the country, they're getting a 90-minute re-edit called "Kites: The Remix." I saw the long version, and it doesn't feel in any way stretched or dull. It tells a simple story - an almost archetypal story - but it does so with a lot of passion and technical sophistication.

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In its editing (fast) and its psychological penetration (shallow), "Kites" has the feeling of a rock video, with time set aside for spoken interludes. People talk for a bit, and then there's singing on the soundtrack, and we see the characters going about their business. For minutes at a stretch, we don't hear what's spoken, just the singing, and yet the story doesn't stop moving during the songs. It keeps advancing, so there's none of that start-and-stop quality that you sometimes get with screen musicals.

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