After Life In A Metro, you would have thought [Anurag] Basu's considerable story-telling skills could have only have ratcheted up. But both for him, and for [Hrithik] Roshan, who comes out after three years, Kites is a good-looking disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 16, 2019

The technically accomplished result is cheesy, engaging but unmemorable 'time-pass'

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2017

Roshan anchors the film with a solid, believable performance and a palpable chemistry with his co-star that will remind audiences just how hot a good Bollywood romance can be.

| Jul 6, 2010

Deliriously entertaining and shamelessly derivative.

| Jul 6, 2010

To anyone versed in Bollywood conventions, it's a natural outgrowth of the genre, and a comically overwrought but still generally fun time.

| Original Score: B- | May 27, 2010

The pulp is served thick, with so much sincerely purple passion it's disarming.

| Original Score: B- | May 26, 2010

It's a film that proves the concept "overwrought" is the same in every language.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2010

Often terrible, yet completely engrossing film from Indian director Anurag Basu.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 25, 2010

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.

| May 21, 2010

Director Basu also has a tendency to backlight scenes, giving them epic, otherworldly glows that become all the more distracting with their increasing predictability.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 21, 2010

Kites morphs into an action picture, complete with unfathomable chase scenes and a Thelma & Louise ending that is laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 21, 2010

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2010

An intense, exciting and highly entertaining film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2010

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.

| May 20, 2010

Kites pulls no punches in its histrionic story of love and revenge. It also spares no expense in the telling with the cast of primarily Hindi actors gnashing their way through a beautifully stylish production and several large-scale action set pieces.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2010

Not even the incoherent mish-mash of plot (mostly faux Sergio Leone by way of Tarantino and Rodriguez, with periodic car-flipping chase sequences) can entirely dim the appeal of this match-up.

| May 19, 2010