WHAT a Luck if you were given opportunity to attend or even see the opening night at the London Indian Film Festival 2011 (LIFF) what would you do?
But what will you do if the opening night of the festival was also the premiere of Aamir Khan’s -Delhi Belly?
If you are a simple person from crowd “JANTA” you would have found it difficult to escape all the news, gossips and controversies surrounding the film. So it is fair to say that I had mixed expectations from the film. Aamir Khan’s declaration that Delhi Belly was going to make a New History in Hindi Cinema in "Last 10 years’ caught my eye.
News about him: Requesting the censor board to pass the film with an ‘A’ certificate thus avoiding any cuts to the film managed to raise an eyebrow. But, Aamir, really is I mean who can forget the Ghajini haircut, that was followed/ copied by number of persons.
Delhi Belly is about three best friends/room-mates, “Tashi” (Imran Khan), “Nitin” (Kunal Roy Kapoor) & “Arup” (Vir Das) and the situations they find themselves in. Tashi is unsure whether his girlfriend is ‘the one’. Arup’s problem is he wants to murder his girlfriend who’s has just dumped him and his boss who idea of creativity centres around a smiling banana. He just doesn’t know in which order it should happen. Food lover- Nitin on the other hand doesn’t know the nightmare situation he is going to enter by eating a tandoori chicken bought from a street vendor whose hygiene is shown in the most graphic detail. Throw in a bunch of criminals who start to chase our trio and you have Delhi Belly.
Delhi Belly’s story has been written by Mr. Akshat Verma, a great writer, who has managed to give the film a idiosyncratic sense that made film a unique without taking anything away from the original. This has largely been done through the strong characterisations in the film and the original and inspired situations that the three friends encounter.
I have pointed, “the language of the youth in India today has been captured perfectly. Delhi Belly dares to show a side of the youth in India today that is not sugar coated as is shown in majority of the Bollywood films”. This has not only added a sense of realism to the film but allowed the most gross and serious scenes in the film to be captured humorously making ways for smiles and laugh out loud moments....
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