| Delhi
6 – Movie Review |
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Behindwoods Visitor Harish |
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Film:
Delhi 6
Director:
Rakesh Mehra
Cast:
Abhisekh Bachan, Rishi Kapoor,
Sonam Kapoor
Landing
in a third world, thanks to
his grand mother, Roshan (Abhisek)
an NRI born to Hindu and Muslim
parents, narrates the journey
in which he travels to accept
a nation for what it is, when
he encounters various shades
of real India and finally gives
back to the nation the lessons
that he learns..
Rakesh
Mehra creates a mesmerizing
screenplay by
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treating this linear story with a non- linear
narrative style which travels parallel to
the vanavas phase of Ramayan being played
for the locals, with the former intercepting
with the latter at regular intervals and
then adding multiple layers to the story
by showcasing communal and emotional clashes
that breaks out for pointless and oddest
of all causes in which the protagonist unknowingly
gets involved, due to the preconceived notion
or plain immaturity of the average man living
in this part of the world.
Having created such a complex script, Rakesh
smoothly communicates the emotions and the
transition that the protagonists undergo,
be it visually or symbolically (dil gira
dafaten sequence), but fails to communicate
with effective dialogues. He also fails
to use naïve situations or at least
intelligent examples (seeing God through
mirror) to preach the message he sets out
to tell, hence ending up showing an assemblage
of characters representing each aspect of
old Delhi, all depicted in a hackneyed manner
which influence (rather left for the audience
to assume to be influential) the protagonist
to first hate the nation and then suddenly
love it.
Rakesh do succeed in comical depiction of
the two ends of the nation (the news channel
episode) and also the present stature of
woman through the characters of Bitto (Sonam)
and wife of the rich old man.
Had the screenplay been less jumpy and the
message handled better, this technically
brilliant movie could have been a great
movie.
Rating: 2½ / 5
Harish. S
tornado.harish@gmail.com
Final year, Automobile,
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