![]() ![]() Chandan (Abhilash Thapliyal), the actress’ brother, now lives in Kennedy’s drab apartment as a ghost, goading and giggling at his glowering host while still wearing the silk scarf Shetty used to strangle him. There is a betting shop on the sleazy side of town with a snivelling proprietor (Kurush Deboo) who does Shetty’s bidding. Inevitably, there is a hard-boiled dame (the dazzling Sunny Leone) who drinks a lot of whisky and is entangled somehow with Rasheed, the self-serving police chief who borrowed heavily to buy his post and is now dangerously in debt to a loan shark (Mohit Takalkar). Some of the plot points have undoubtedly been ripped from newspaper reports, but not for the purposes of social commentary Kennedy is a more of a wallow in a half-imaginary world of wickedness. Despite its violence, this is Kashyap’s fantasy world. Kennedy is the second film Bhat has made with Kashyap, whose 70s thriller aesthetic gives this long journey through the Mumbai night a fine, glossy finish. Rahul Bhat, a former model and pageant pin-up who segued into acting via Hindi television soap operas, rumbles Shetty’s minimal lines from behind a bad beard and never cracks a smile, but manages to take us along with him – not cheering him on, exactly, but sympathizing with him as a tragic anti-hero whose bloodthirstiness is a kind of curse. His chances of springing his son’s killer, a nasty customer called Saleem, would be considerably enhanced – because if you want to kill someone, as Shetty tells another of his marks in an unusually expansive speech, you shouldn’t lose the element of surprise. His wife had just told him she wanted him out of her life. Faced with getting fired from the job that gave his life meaning, he took a deal where he would be pronounced dead in action, then go undercover as part of an anonymous special unit that does the really dirty jobs. Once a legitimate police officer (albeit in a spectacularly corrupt force), Shetty overstepped the mark once too often: he killed the brother of a famous actress, thus guaranteeing that the force’s rogue operations would come under scrutiny. The curious twist in Anurag Kashyap’s Cannes Film Festival Midnight selection Kennedy is that Uday Shetty is not supposed to exist. They are heroes or former villains who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty, which only increases their popularity with some fans.Cannes Film Festival 2023: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews Anti-hero characters may not be the nicest members of Marvel's roster, but they definitely get the job done. Update on Jby Scoot Allan: Marvel's anti-heroes are receiving a new boost in popularity with the recent live-action focus on characters like Venom and Moon Knight. RELATED: 10 Strongest Marvel Characters Who Hate Fighting Some of them are among the publisher's most popular anti-hero characters. ![]() Marvel, with its mature characters and real-world concepts, boasts various anti-heroes. These characters have been riding a wave of violence from the darker pop culture of the late '70s to the present day. ![]() While there have always been heroes who killed in comics, even going back to the Golden Age, they were never as prevalent as they have been in the last forty years. ![]() Anti-heroes will stop at nothing to see justice done, even if that means killing their foes. ![]()
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