REVIEW: Delhi-6 is disappointing
For all those of you who have come out with pitchforks against a certain Mr Danny Boyle, Delhi-6 is a must-watch.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's latest flick is set in what is now popularly perceived as 'real India'.
Unlike Jamal Malik however, Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) is no Slumdog. He is an NRI who accompanies his grandmother (Waheeda Rehman) whose last wish is to spend the remaining days of her life in Delhi 6, a locality she was married into.
Born and brought up in America, Roshan is fascinated with everything that happens around him. Traffic jams, Ram Leela, sweetmeat shops, bylanes, lack of water in loos – all of it to him is 'kewl'.
What mesmerises Roshan the most however are the human relationships in Old Delhi. "You don't know who is family and who isn't," he says to himself in one of the scenes where all the neighbours are present with his grandmother in the hospital.
Along the way, we are introduced to everyone from this neighbourhood – a sweetmeat shop owner, two warring brothers, an evil moneylender, his much-younger wife, a lecherous photographer, a local buffoon, a goat, a pregnant cow, an ancestral radio and god knows who and what else!
Delhi 6, we are told, is full of such characters – poor perhaps but with hearts of gold. And like in every story there is a pretty girl – Bittu (Sonam Kapoor) in this case – who catches the attention of our hero.
Roshan posits an interesting case. He is born of a Hindu father and a Muslim mother – the two prominent communities in the Old Delhi area. Before you know it, Roshan becomes part of this milieu and gets embroiled in the politics of hate.
Whether he manages to break out of this and show people the light is pretty much what the movie is all about.
Perhaps the biggest problem with Delhi-6 the film is that it is like Delhi-6, the locality. There's so much happening you don't know where to look.
MUSIC REVIEW: Delhi-6 has a few haunting numbers
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Ramlila was amazing and soul of delhi 6 film. But iwas
confused who was ram and who was laxman ?
actually
laxman was looking like ram .Also raghuvir yadav was
not used properly.
The transformation of the film is too good....
Delhi -6 has certainly great music, the best music of the
year so far.
Delhi-6, rakeysh mehra's next after the milestone rdb is one
step ahead...It shows mehra has grown as a director, rdb he
was more aggressive, but with delhi-6 he's become more
composed & matured.
Loved the film...The concept of seeing god in ourselves'
shown with the help of a mirror is so touching. The dialogue
in soundtrack. 'zarre zarre mein usika noor
hai...'.Beautiful thought which can inspire alot.
Delhi-6, rakeysh mehra's next after the milestone rdb is one
step ahead...It shows mehra has grown as a director, rdb he
was more aggressive, but with delhi-6 he's become more
composed & matured.
I think the highlight of the film delhi 6 was the
‘ramleela’. If you are a part of delhi u would agree
with me. The way people behave in the movie and their
reactions to ramleela is actually the way people are while
watching ramleela!
the different characters portrayed in the movie are soooo
real, each one of them actually exists in chandni chowk!
i remember meeting this man who was a chat seller, old man
and he was touched seeing me and my boyfriend because he
remembered his first love and he told us that he actually
never got married because he loved that woman too much.. She
was a regular at his chat counter!
rakeysh if you ever read this please tell me, did you
actually meet this fellow and script rishi kapoor’s
character? It’s amazing if this is a co-incidence
Hey guys! U dnt need to talk about him here.. We are not
here for him.. We are here for delhi 6!
an experience of a lifetime!
i went to see this film with my grandmother who is born
and brought up in delhi.. She actually narrated to me this
story of kala bandar! I was amazed at the accuracy with
which rakeysh has captured the essence of this entire
episode that actually happened in delhi years ago!
hats off to rakeyshji :) god bless u!
where are such real film makers?