Barfii...Kuchch Meetha Ho Jai

          Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana D'Cruz,

 Rupa Ganguly, Akash Khurana, Jishu Sengupta

Direction: Anurag Basu

If I have to box the story I will say it is a romantic comedy, a love triangle...but then saying so will generalize the movie...so for the moment I will say it is a beautiful movie. 

As it has been common knowledge, the hero has hearing and speech impairment, and the heroine has autism. But haven't we seen such movies earlier, be it Koshish (1972) in which Sanjeev kumar and Jaya Bhaduri had hearing and speech impairment, or in the recent past Black in which Rani Mukherjee is visually impaired, or Tare Zameen Par in which Darsheel Safary suffers from dsylexia. In each of these movies an effort has been made to draw sympathy towards the characters. 

This is where Barfii is different...to put it in Priyanka Chopra's words, it is not to arouse any sympathy from the audience,  it is just a story of two individuals with disabilities.

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 It is a simple story based in Darjeeling, the movie begins in early 70s and ends in the current day. As the name suggests the story is about Barfii (Ranbir Kapoor), he was named murphy by his mother but over the years the name changes into Barfii. Barfii has hearing and speech impairment, and Jhilmil (Priyanka Chopra) has autism, that means the lead actors have no dialogues. But inspite of this the movie tells the story of their lives and their love effortlessly. And there is Ileana D'Cruz, who comes to Darjeeling and falls in love with Ranbir. But the twist is she is engaged and doesn't know whether to listen to her heart or not.

Ranbir effortlessly transforms in to Charlie Chaplin, there is a scene where he takes his heart out and puts it at the feet of Ileana D'Cruz, which she kicks playfully. But Ranbir would not give up, so he follows her into a restaurant, and this time he presents his heart on a platter along with flowers. 

There are many scenes which can be picked for their sheer brilliance. The movie is a montage of beautiful scenes captured brilliantly on camera and sewn together with crisp editing. Be it Priyanka Chopra's jealous for Ileana which is shown in subtle ways, where she stares at Ileana's waist and later tries to have a look of her waist in the mirror. Or Ileana who transforms into a Bengali married women with elan, the way she carries her saree and the way she walks, every bit adds to the character.

 The movie is full of life, there isn't a moment where one will find it dragging. All the actors have contributed to make it a perfect entertainer.

Delhi Belly

Director-Abhinay Deo

Producer-Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao, Ronnie Screwala and Jim Furgele

Starcast- Imran khan, Vir Das, Kunal Roy Kapoor, Shehnaz Treasurywala, Poorna Jagganath, Anushka Dandekar and VIjay Razz

Delhi Belly was a laugh riot I thoroughly enjoyed the movie…it was fully “paisa wasool”, although I questioned my sensibilities how I was not put off with the use of toilet humour and dialogues interwoven with expletives. What made it interesting was the situational humour unlike the humour seen in other movies which are forced into the storyline along with background laughter track

What was good about the movie was crisp editing and sleek pace, and the very few songs which were run as the background score instead of the hero-heroine being shifted to the foreign locales with a blink of eye and, dancing and singing with each other or many a times with a bunch of accomplices.

And the bad part was there was nothing new to the script, have not we seen story of mix-ups umpteen number of times- people being caught up for wrong reasons and trying to sort it out.

But performance wise, the villain Vijay Razz, cartoonist and bespectacled friend of Imran- Vir Das, and photographer Kunal Roy did a good job…of course the landlord, jeweler, parents, ex-husband of special correspondent, pop singer played their bit with aplomb to keep the storyline running.

Coming to the lead Imran Khan is definitely trying to shed his chocolate boy image and has done things which none of the commercial heros have tried so far. And last but not the least Poorna Jagganath the new found by Aamir Khan imported from Los Angeles, looked far younger than her age and played her part with finesse.

So that was Delhi Belly full of MC, BC and many more idioms used by the hero and his friends generously…though I wonder why no one uses BaapC and BhaiC???