Delhi 6 : Movie Review
What was this movie all about? I am confused. For facts, this is a movie directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra of Rang De Basanti fame. Lyrics by Prasoon Joshi and music by A.R. Rahman. The movie stars Abhishek Bachchan & Sonam Kapoor.
I would like to describe the movie in 2 parts, the one before the intermission and one after.
First Half -
Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) returns to India from US of A to with his grandmother so that she can spend her last days in Chandni Chowk, a part of Delhi. He gets familiar with the neighbours, gets to meet Bittu (Sonam Kapoor), spends good amount of time clicking pictures with his Motorola handset and watching Ram Leela innumerable times with his grandmother. The movie goes on with subtle humour here and there. There is one plot where a inspector is seen bullying locals. Amused Roshan demands that the inspector can’t treat people like that and reminds him he is a Public Servant. Inspector replies ‘Kya mein tumhein servant dikta hoon ?” and gives him one tight slap! Roshan slaps back and ends up getting arrested. Ali (Rishi Kapoor) comes to his rescue and gets him out by bribing the inspector. Rumours start spreading about mysterious Monkey Man with several people claiming to have seen it creating menace. The local TV channels keep telecasting the Monkey Man stories.
The first half is really enjoyable and I would rate it 4/5.
Second Half -
Roshan falls in trouble with one of the episodes of monkey man. He decides to go back to America, but finds out that something is stopping him. He realizes that he has fallen in love with Bittu. Meanwhile riots breaks out between Hindus and Muslims over the issue of Monkey Man. Thereafter the movie completely loses the plot. Sigh! It was sort of torture to watch the second half. I would rate it -1 / 5. (Minus one on Five)
The best aspect of the movie is its Music. Nice work by Rahaman. Also the bylanes of Chandi Chowk are shot nicely. Sonam Kapoor is decent. So if you want to enjoy the movie, then watch it till the intermission. That’s my advice. The movie is nowhere near RDB.
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I will write what I have written elsewhere
1. I didn’t get the relations till the end of the movie!! Brother Sister seriously???
2. Music was really nice and the movie was endurable till intermission. After that I just waited for it to end.
3. I am fed up with AB making an appearance in his kid’s movies. I seriously think its buy one get one free offer in Bachchan family.
4. The ending was ridiculous. It reminded me of Harry Potter talking to Dumbledore in the 7th part while he is dead apparently. [If U have read it u will know what I am talking about
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The miraculous resuscitation was actually ridiculous.
I watched the movie on Sunday. Well it was the first movie I watched in theater after a long time. Wanted to watch this one in theater. Not because of Abhishek or Sonam, but because of Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra and Masakalli. Rakeysh did a fine job, but I was dissappointed that he gave so much screen space to Abhishek than Masakalli, when Masakalli had more expressions in his feathers than were on Abhishek’s face. He can excel only in Sarkar kinda movies as he knows only one grumpy expression. His yo yo yo’s were irritating. For a guy born and brought up in U.S. he was too quick to get the Indian accent and back to fake U.S. accent when convinient. (My cousins settled in U.S. more than ten years back, lost their Indian accent to U.S. accent and can’t get back to it as quick as him).
Movie was fine for it’s message. I have read and heard a lot of comments that the movie was about Monkey Man. Well it’s not. I liked the second half too. You have to look for what’s being shown than looking for the monkey man and story and you’ll get the message. But it was not wrapped up properly. Why the heck Roshan has to dress up as Monkey Man to get Bittu back, when he could have straight forward jumped(he knows really well to jump on terraces) in front of her and told her that he loved her.
The message is don’t look for the monkey man and you’ll know what the movie is about and you’ll like it. I’ll give it 3/5.
@Reema,
1. What relations ? *Confused*
2. Agree
3. He he. That was a nice one
4. I havnt read harry potter. But have a vague idea !
@Shalini,
Hmmmm. Okay. The sequences in the end were very confusing!
The message too is not brought out clearly! Anyways nice review by you
I liked the Picturization it’s marvelous. But the real star is the soul-stirring music by AR Rahman, lending the film its very essence. If you have A R Rahman with you, you are bound to hit the right note. Rakeysh u did d best job…keep rocking.
i think the movie was a comment on indian mentality thats all with very nice picturization