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Kaante
Kaante (lit. 'Thorns') is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Sanjay Gupta, written by Milap Zaveri, and starring an ensemble cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Lucky Ali, Mahesh Manjrekar, Kumar Gaurav, Namrata Singh Gujral, Rati Agnihotri, Rohit Roy, Isha Koppikar and Malaika Arora.
Set in Los Angeles, the film follows six Indian men who are detained without evidence by the police. Feeling wronged and vengeful, they team up to plot a bank heist that would leave the Los Angeles Police Department penniless. However, once things go out of hand, they start suspecting each other's identities, resulting in violence and chaos.
Kaante was heavily inspired by Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) as well as the film that inspired it, Ringo Lam's City on Fire (1987). According to Tarantino, Kaante is his favorite among the many films that were heavily inspired by his work.
Kaante was released theatrically on 20 December 2002. The film was a success at the box office despite clashing with Saathiya, another box office success, with first-week earnings of £1.8 million in India, nearly $1 million in the United States, and £268,507 in Britain. The film's final worldwide gross was ₹430 million
In Los Angeles, six men of Indian origin with a criminal record are detained by the police and interrogated about stealing a truck full of laptops and its whereabouts. Their deep antipathy towards the police for arresting them without any evidence, just because the witnesses had seen an Indian at the crime scene, grows into a daring plot. Sparked off by Jay "Ajju" Trehan and seconded by Yashvardhan "Major" Rampal, they all hatch a plan to rob the American Services Bank, in which lies the funding for the Los Angeles Police Department.
Marc Issak is a bouncer with a girlfriend working as a club dancer. Major has no stable job and lives with his sick wife. Andy is a software engineer having divorce and child custody problems, and is also jobless. Bali is a drug peddler who lives off the street; he has a mentally disabled sister in the asylum. Bali meets Mak one day, being chased by some drug dealers in an alley, who agrees to save him only if he splits his loot. They begin to work thereafter.
After the six are released from jail a day later, they meet up again to discuss the bank robbery. It is revealed Ajju had stolen the truck and sold it, and he gives everyone a share for the trouble they went through. Andy walks away with his, but when his lawyer tells him that the money is insufficient, he returns to the gang. On a hotel rooftop, they start planning the robbery, in which they familiarize themselves with the bank and get cars, weapons, and gadgets to do this. Soon they establish their hideout in a warehouse, where Major reveals that the bank will be looted the next day instead of the day after as previously planned, to thwart anyone's hidden agendas.
The robbery proceeds as planned, but they find a SWAT team waiting for them outside the bank. A gunfight ensues, and Mak is hit by a bullet while saving Major. The gang escape and meet at their hideout. Ajju reveals that he has kidnapped the police chief Det. MacQuarrie. They interrogate him and learn that one of them is an undercover cop. This strikes suspicion among them, yet they decide to bring the stolen amount to their hideout to divide the spoils. Back home Major learns that his wife has died. Ajju befriends Marc and both go to the club, where Marc take away his girlfriend from the club owner Cyrus, and it is then revealed that Ajju actually knows some English but was pretending not to all this while. When everyone returns, they find Bali dead, shot by Mak for his inhuman interrogation of MacQuarrie. Ajju them shoots Macquarie, and he reasons with the others that Mak is the undercover cop, but Major disagrees because he believes Mak saved him during the gunfight at the bank, and orders Ajju at gunpoint not to shoot Mak. Marc backs up Ajju and points his gun at Major and Mak, while Mak points his gun at Marc. The remaining four arrive at a Mexican standoff, as Andy retreats and scampers with the money. The four of them shoot each other, after which Major apologizes to Mak for not being able to save him. In reply, Mak says he was just doing his duty as he is the undercover cop, sent by the police to watch the team and that he was the one who buzzed the cops at the bank to arrive. Major shoots the already dying Mak in the head.
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Kaante
Kaante (lit. 'Thorns') is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Sanjay Gupta, written by Milap Zaveri, and starring an ensemble cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Lucky Ali, Mahesh Manjrekar, Kumar Gaurav, Namrata Singh Gujral, Rati Agnihotri, Rohit Roy, Isha Koppikar and Malaika Arora.
Set in Los Angeles, the film follows six Indian men who are detained without evidence by the police. Feeling wronged and vengeful, they team up to plot a bank heist that would leave the Los Angeles Police Department penniless. However, once things go out of hand, they start suspecting each other's identities, resulting in violence and chaos.
Kaante was heavily inspired by Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) as well as the film that inspired it, Ringo Lam's City on Fire (1987). According to Tarantino, Kaante is his favorite among the many films that were heavily inspired by his work.
Kaante was released theatrically on 20 December 2002. The film was a success at the box office despite clashing with Saathiya, another box office success, with first-week earnings of £1.8 million in India, nearly $1 million in the United States, and £268,507 in Britain. The film's final worldwide gross was ₹430 million
In Los Angeles, six men of Indian origin with a criminal record are detained by the police and interrogated about stealing a truck full of laptops and its whereabouts. Their deep antipathy towards the police for arresting them without any evidence, just because the witnesses had seen an Indian at the crime scene, grows into a daring plot. Sparked off by Jay "Ajju" Trehan and seconded by Yashvardhan "Major" Rampal, they all hatch a plan to rob the American Services Bank, in which lies the funding for the Los Angeles Police Department.
Marc Issak is a bouncer with a girlfriend working as a club dancer. Major has no stable job and lives with his sick wife. Andy is a software engineer having divorce and child custody problems, and is also jobless. Bali is a drug peddler who lives off the street; he has a mentally disabled sister in the asylum. Bali meets Mak one day, being chased by some drug dealers in an alley, who agrees to save him only if he splits his loot. They begin to work thereafter.
After the six are released from jail a day later, they meet up again to discuss the bank robbery. It is revealed Ajju had stolen the truck and sold it, and he gives everyone a share for the trouble they went through. Andy walks away with his, but when his lawyer tells him that the money is insufficient, he returns to the gang. On a hotel rooftop, they start planning the robbery, in which they familiarize themselves with the bank and get cars, weapons, and gadgets to do this. Soon they establish their hideout in a warehouse, where Major reveals that the bank will be looted the next day instead of the day after as previously planned, to thwart anyone's hidden agendas.
The robbery proceeds as planned, but they find a SWAT team waiting for them outside the bank. A gunfight ensues, and Mak is hit by a bullet while saving Major. The gang escape and meet at their hideout. Ajju reveals that he has kidnapped the police chief Det. MacQuarrie. They interrogate him and learn that one of them is an undercover cop. This strikes suspicion among them, yet they decide to bring the stolen amount to their hideout to divide the spoils. Back home Major learns that his wife has died. Ajju befriends Marc and both go to the club, where Marc take away his girlfriend from the club owner Cyrus, and it is then revealed that Ajju actually knows some English but was pretending not to all this while. When everyone returns, they find Bali dead, shot by Mak for his inhuman interrogation of MacQuarrie. Ajju them shoots Macquarie, and he reasons with the others that Mak is the undercover cop, but Major disagrees because he believes Mak saved him during the gunfight at the bank, and orders Ajju at gunpoint not to shoot Mak. Marc backs up Ajju and points his gun at Major and Mak, while Mak points his gun at Marc. The remaining four arrive at a Mexican standoff, as Andy retreats and scampers with the money. The four of them shoot each other, after which Major apologizes to Mak for not being able to save him. In reply, Mak says he was just doing his duty as he is the undercover cop, sent by the police to watch the team and that he was the one who buzzed the cops at the bank to arrive. Major shoots the already dying Mak in the head.