Kaminey - Plot

Plot

Guddu and Charlie (Shahid Kapoor) are identical twins who have grown up on the streets of Mumbai. Both brothers have a speech impediment—Charlie has a lisp while Guddu stutters in his speech. The film begins in medias res with a voiceover narration by Charlie, who describes how he and his brother could never agree an anything, and Charlie's belief in taking shortcuts to fulfill his dream of becoming a bookmaker at a horse racing course, where he currently works for three Bengali criminal brothers who fix races. Charlie is especially close friends with the youngest brother Mikhail (Chandan Roy Sanyal), whom he considers to be even closer than his own brother. Charlie is cheated when he bets Rs.100,000 on a horse during a fixed race but is double-crossed by the jockey and loses all his savings. Craving revenge, Charlie hunts down the jockey, who he finds to an upmarket hotel in the city. Charlie refuses to heed his boss' orders to leave the hotel after delivering information of the jockey's whereabouts, and goes after the jockey himself.

In a different room at the same hotel, corrupt policemen Lobo and Lele kill three drug dealers and collect a guitar case containing Rs.100 million worth of cocaine, to be delivered to drug lord Tashi (Tenzing Nima). Charlie and his aide invade the jockey's hotel room, start seizing his belongings and beating him in revenge for Charlie's lost money. The jockey's aide returns to hand him a gun, which sparks a gunfight and foot-chase to the car park, where Lobo and Lele are placing a guitar case in their van. Charlie and his two aides seize the van to escape from the jockey's men, and soon realise that they have stolen a police vehicle. Charlie drives the van to a remote location where he discovers the guitar case contains cocaine. Thinking this is the shortcut that will lead to his dreams, he steals the guitar case. The policemen track down the van but discover that the guitar case is missing, so they try to track Charlie down.

Meanwhile, the happy, carefree lives of young lovers Guddu and Sweety (Priyanka Chopra) comes to a halt when Sweety reveals that she is pregnant with Guddu's child. She also reveals that she is the sister of crooked mob politician Sunil Bhope, and must marry Guddu immediately. Guddu reluctantly agrees and they are married later that night. Bhope hears about his sister's actions and sends his cronies to apprehend the lovers. Bhope's men crash the wedding celebrations and after beating up Guddu, they realise that he is a migrant to Mumbai from Uttar Pradesh. This enrages Bhope, whose political party supports Maharashtra for Marathis, and Bhope orders his men to kill Guddu and bring Sweety back to his house so he can arrange a marriage for her. Sweety however, fights off her brother's gangsters and escapes with Guddu.

Charlie tells Mikhail about the discovered drugs and both of them are overjoyed at the money they would earn from the deal, but when Charlie reurns to retrieve the case for Mikhail, Bhope and his men are waiting inside the van. Bhope wants Charlie to reveal Guddu's whereabouts after one of Bhope's men had recognised Guddu as Charlie's twin brother. A drunken Mikhail interrupts their conversation, and for all the talk, he is murdered by Bhope to convince Charlie that he means business.

On the way to the airport, Guddu and Sweety argume after Guddu realises that Sweety had faked her identity and her own stammering to get close to him. They briefly part, and after being spotted by Lobo and Lele at a petrol station, Guddu is mistaken for Charlie and is arrested. The policemen assault Guddu and refuse to believe that he is Charlie's twin brother until Guddu's mobile telephone rings. The call is from Charlie's number and Bhope is on the line. The Lobo, Lele and Bhope strike a deal to exchange Charlie for Guddu and Sweety, which is executed on a train. Guddu and Sweety are taken to Bhope's house, where Bhope reveals that a local builder will pay him Rs.50 million—which Bhope needs to fight an election—to marry Sweety to the builder's son. Guddu, remembering that the whole fracas is about the guitar case containing Rs.100 million worth of drugs, bargains with Bhope—if Guddu retrieves the guitar case for Bhope, he will get Sweety. Bhope sends Guddu and his men to retrieve the guitar case from Charlie's house.

Charlie is assaulted by Lobo and Lele, who are desperate to recover the guitar case, otherwise Tashi will be going after their heads. Realizing that they are in as much trouble as he is, Charlie refuses to budge. However, in a freak accident, one of the policemen accidentally shoots himself in the thigh, and Charlie uses the distraction to pick up a gun and take Lobo and Lele hostage. He makes a deal with Tashi to exchange the guitar case for a payment of Rs.1 million. He sends the injured cop and his aide to Tashi to deliver the details of the exchange, and returns to his house to retrieve the guitar case. Guddu arrives there with Bhope's men, totally unaware that Bhope has ordered his men to kill Guddu once they have the guitar case. Sweety hears about this double-cross and opens fire on the members of her household. When Guddu finally finds the guitar case, he fights with Charlie and they discuss their father's death. Charlie lets Guddu go and Guddu then goes to the police with the cocaine, and is wired with electronic listening devices so the police can get evidence of Bhope's criminal acts. Guddu arrives at the Bhope residence about the same time as Tashi and his gang, with Charlie in their custody. Sunil Bhope and Tashi begin negotiating a trade for the drugs, but Charlie snatches the guitar case and threatens to destroy it if Guddu and Sweety are not released. The two lovers escape just as the police arrive, leading to a melee of shooting in which the cocaine is destroyed. Charlie's bosses arrive looking for vengeance over the murder of their younger brother, but are gunned down along with Bhope and his men, and Tashi and his gang. However, Charlie is also shot and wounded in the attack by one of the Africans.

The film ends with Sweety giving birth to Guddu's twins and Charlie opening his bookmaking counter at the racecourse, with his friend Mikhail's name. An elegant woman named Sophia, who featured in Charlie's dream at the beginning of the movie, is now his fiance and is wearing a diamond ring.