{"id":6321,"date":"2016-06-09T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6321"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:38:10","slug":"kaamyaab-review-sanjay-mishra-phenomenal-actor-shah-rukh-khan-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6321","title":{"rendered":"Kaamyaab Review: Sanjay Mishra is Phenomenal in this Flawless Movie About the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>n <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Hardik Mehta\u2019s flawless debut feature, the career of its protagonist, Sudheer \u2013 a neglected, middle-aged character actor past his expiry date \u2013 is often reduced to one catchphrase. In a yesteryear film-within-the-film titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looteron Ki Baaraat<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Sudheer played Shera, an evil henchman with a colourful overconfidence who meets his end in a tragicomical sidekick fashion. Just before dying, he utters \u201cEnjoying life, aur option hi kya hai,\u201d a line that becomes immortalised as message forwards, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/introvert-vs-office-hr\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">icebreakers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at parties, and more importantly, as Sudheer\u2019s only identity. It\u2019s a bittersweet predicament, a feat of acting where he inhabits his character in such a full-bodied manner that the audience forgets the artist behind it all.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hindi film industry is built on the back of such side actors who have slipped through the cracks of our memories, and vanished from the backgrounds in film posters. In one of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> more rewarding poetic flourishes, Sudheer is essayed by Sanjay Mishra, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/middle-aged-indian-man-ageing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">middle-aged<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> character actor in Hindi cinema, habituated to operating from the backseat in roles that serve the film and its stars, rather than his own talent. Like Sudheer, Mishra\u2019s legacy has for a better part of the decade been synonymous with a catchphrase as well. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the Best<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2009\u2019s mindless ensemble comedy, continues to be invoked solely due to the actor\u2019s punchline of a dialogue \u201cAe dhondu beta, just chill,\u201d which instantly amassed a cult following of its own.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1583482307.jpg\" alt=\"kaamyaab\" width=\"775\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60174\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>The only thing new-age hippies seem to have maintained is their obsession with weed and transcendental meditation.<\/p>\n<p>Red Chillies Entertainment<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That Sanjay Mishra and Sudheer are almost indistinguishable from each other isn\u2019t only inspired casting. It also forms the very fabric of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">universe: a gamble that is as pivotal for the effectiveness of its narrative as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/is-the-myth-of-shah-rukh-khan-all-that-is-left-of-srk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shah Rukh Khan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> playing himself in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a version of himself in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/om-shanti-om-12-years-shah-rukh-khan-deepika-padukone-farrah-khan\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Om Shanti Om<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Without Mishra\u2019s spellbinding turn, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ceases to exist much in the same way the Hindi film industry is rendered inefficient without its cort\u00e8ge of character actors, who have perpetually been treated as disposable goods despite their indispensability.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written by Radhika Anand and Mehta, who has previously won a National Award for his documentary short <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amdavad Ma Famous <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and co-written Vikramaditya Motwane\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trapped<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> almost feels like the successor to Farah Khan\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Om Shanti Om<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 or atleast a spinoff of its riveting first half.\u00a0 Like the 2007 film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a movie about the movies so precise and heartfelt in its affection that it might as well have been called Once Upon A Time in Bollywood.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a sort of meta-tribute, the poster of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Om Shanti Om <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">finds a place in the film, and its star, Shah Rukh Khan, is a co-producer.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p><em>Kaamyaab<\/em> feels more like a love-letter to the actors who consented to performing versions of themselves, all to land a spot on the fringes of success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> opens in present day, when a washed out and lonely Sudheer is interviewed about his greatest hits by a TV host who insists that his omnipresence in Hindi films of the \u201980s and \u201990s \u2013 as a doctor, lawyer, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/unnao-woman-set-ablaze-how-india-fails-to-protect-its-rape-survivors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rapist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, security guard of a graveyard, and even \u201cthe man standing behind the dead body\u201d \u2013 is a grand achievement. A cynical Sudheer doesn\u2019t quite share her enthusiasm until she mentions that his filmography boasts of 499 movies, dangling just on the verge of the magic round number. It\u2019s this piece of information that triggers Sudheer\u2019s decision to come out of retirement, giving him a semblance of purpose. Almost overnight, his listless self acquires an energetic makeover in the pursuit of his 500th film.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But even when Sudheer turns to Gulati (Deepak Dobriyal), a former actor-turned-streetsmart casting agent, landing his 500th role isn\u2019t a cakewalk. For one, he has to fight off an aggressive Avtar Gill (the actor plays himself in what is easily a stroke of casting genius). Then there\u2019s the fact that he is a visible relic of the past, not attuned to the changing demands of the film industry. So even when good news comes his way (there\u2019s a charming sequence where Sudheer and his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/friendship-breaking-up-bffs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">friend<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> break into an impromptu celebration after he lands his 500th part at a party), it\u2019s underlined by adversities. In a cruel twist of fate, his much-anticipated first shot turns out to be his last, a misstep that reveals not only the faultlines of his profession, but also his own shortcomings \u2013 as a temperamental artist and an absent father.<\/span>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1583482310.jpg\" alt=\"kaamyaab\" width=\"658\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60175\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>The only thing new-age hippies seem to have maintained is their obsession with weed and transcendental meditation.<\/p>\n<p>Red Chillies Entertainment<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What elevates <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from just being a character sketch of an underdog, is Mehta\u2019s keen detailing; it puts the magnifying glass as much on its subject as it does on the environment that constrains them. The film\u2019s meticulous and joyful recreation of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/amol-palekar-hindi-cinema-middle-class\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">golden era of Hindi cinema<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> evokes the kind of sentimentality (Rachita Arora\u2019s score is especially fetching) that is doused with a genuine tenderness for a time when movies, despite their business of exaggeration, were marked by gentleness.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That Mehta is a Hinda cinema nerd comes through in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">humour as well as its litany of references that celebrate the rung of Bollywood that\u2019s often overlooked. There\u2019s a lovely sequence in a dingy bar, where Sudheer is flanked by a group of optimistic out-of-work veteran actors while a relatively in-demand Gill smirks at them from another table. The side actors in question \u2012 the late Viju Khote (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is dedicated to him), Birbal, Manmauji, Liliput, Ramesh Goyal, and Anil Nagrath \u2012 are all cast to play themselves.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The Hindi film industry is built on the back of side actors who have slipped through the cracks of our memories, and vanished from the backgrounds in film posters.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In that sense, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feels more like a love-letter to the actors who consented to performing versions of themselves, all to land a spot on the fringes of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/kangana-ranaut-manikarnika\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">success<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The central preoccupation of the film is: How do people who never get to see success define it? <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is as much about<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sudheer<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who has bent himself to such an extent that he\u2019s abandoned his own identity, as it is about giving the spotlight to Sanjay Mishra, an actor who has never demanded the centrestage even when he deserved it. On his part, Mishra turns in a career-defining performance, condensing a lifetime of survival eked out of struggle.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaamyaab\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">moving closing sequence, the distinction between artistry and stardom is crystal clear: It\u2019s the stars who get the frenzied welcome, but it takes an artist to march on even when the curtains close on them and the world looks away.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardik Mehta\u2019s Kamyaab is filmmaking at its very best: an affecting acknowledgement of the innumerable artists in Bollywood, whose talent is constrained by an industry that treats them as disposable goods despite their indispensability. 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