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Credits
Producer/s:	Raju Patel, Sanjay Gupta, Pritish Nandy Communications
Director:	Sanjay Gupta
Cast:	Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Kumar Gaurav, Mahesh Manjrekar, Lucky Ali
Music:	Anand Raaj Anand, Lucky Ali, Vishal Shekhar, Sulaiman Merchant
Lyrics:	Dev Kohli, Anand Raaj Anand, Vishal, Lucky Ali

Kaante, this year's most-awaited film has finally made it to the cinema halls. The movie comes at a time when Hindi movie lovers have been left high and dry by the supposedly gigantic films released this year. Despite the fact that the story of the Kaante is heavily borrowed from Quentin Tarantino's hit Hollywood potboiler Reservoir Dogs, the film is not a let-down. In fact, the film is a path breaker of sorts in many ways.

The film is about six different people with six different personalities who are brought together by fate to pull off a major crime - a crime which is supposed to change their lives for good. A plan is hatched and executed perfectly but something goes terribly wrong. Someone in the gang is not whom he is supposed to be. What danger does this person pose to the others? Can the gang members figure out who is who? What is the final outcome?

Major (Amitabh), Ajju (Sanjay Dutt), Bouncer (Sunil Shetty), Andy (Kumar Gaurav), Baali (Mahesh Manjrekar) and Mak (Lucky Ali) gang up to pull one gigantic heist, make money and live the rest of their lives in luxury. Their target is the Service Bank in LA, which is less well guarded than others. The robbery goes on as planned but they then are faced with the firing squad because one of them has betrayed the rest and called the cops in. The robbers make it with the money anyways and the rest of the drama unfolds at their hideout where they try to figure out how to salvage the situation. Dissention and suspicion run high, as gang members discuss the possibility of a traitor in their midst. No one trusts the other and soon guns are drawn. The chain of events which follows next is what makes up the climax of this film.

Kaante is a daring attempt by director Sanjay Gupta who has surpassed Bollywood's filmmaking standards in presenting the story of a gang of bank robbers who don't trust each other. The film was shot entirely in the U.S and had Hollywood technicians working on it which shows in every single frame of the film. The stunts are mind blowing. Technically speaking, Kaante is one of Bollywood's brightest movies ever made and Sanjay Gupta deserves full marks for giving the film a Hollywood look.

The movie boasts of an impressive star cast and Gupta has deftly put all of them on almost equal footage without focusing on any particular star. Sanjay was able to resist the temptation of focusing on the biggest star in the cast, namely, Amitabh, and lets every character develop on its own.

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