There are movies, every time you watch them and you like it more and especially when you watch it twice on consecutive days. Delhi6 is a movie which belongs to this genre. I was waiting for this movie eagerly and I have seen this movie consecutively on last Saturday and Sunday and found it equally appealing in both attempts.
I don’t want to play a spoilsport and narrate the story. In fact there is nothing you can tell about the movie and that can play the spoiler. This movie is very predictable and still doesn’t kill the curiosity. Like ‘Chak De’ and ‘Lagaan’, everyone knows about the result but still their heart pounds heavily on every Shot-Goal-Run. The concept is awesome and direction is out of words. This film shows how a Muslim can be a devotee of lord Hanuman and how the childhood friends can go after each others life when it comes to their religion. This is a movie with some of the most amazing songs and dialogues in recent past. I can’t help myself praising the dialogues of the movie every now and then... And there is nothing left to say about the songs.
Some of the dialogues, which I want to write at this point but you can relate it better when you watch the movie:
"Nal mein paani ho na ho, aankhon ka paani hamesha barasne ko taiyaar rehta hai".
"Yahan Bhagwaan bhi KURSI ka matlab jaante hai"
“Jis din Ek NOTE le leta, Do SIKKE milna band ho jaate”
“izhaar kar do barkhurdar, varna hamari tarah khali haweliyaan kharidate reh jaayoge” (don’t remember exactly)
"Main ye nahi jaanti ki mujhe kya chahiye, par ye jaanti hoon ki kya nahi chahiye."
Also I was surprised to see that “Rehna Tu” song is not for Sonam Kapoor, watch and find for whom it is...
Also like he did in ‘RDB’, Rakeysh relate every event with the events of RAMAYAN and that too not in RDB style. In RDB there was a background scene for relation with the freedom struggle but here the director chose to go with Ramlila. Ramlila is shown so beautifully that I have already made my mind to go there once in upcoming season.
This is a movie, to which every Indian (Delhite more specifically)can relate no matter if he is an absolute Indian or an NRI. The feelings have been shown beautifully and the director believed in the power of expressions more than the power of words. Sonam Kapoor is looking like totally opposite as she was in ‘Saawariyan’ and in my opinion everyone will like this new Sonam more than the ‘Saawariyan’ one. This new Sonam looks more promising and has shown that she can perform if directed well. This bubbly and cheerful girl surely deserves the accolade. Abhishek Bachchan, Om Puri, Divya Dutta, Deepak Dobriyal, Vijay Raaj and Atul Kulkarni also delivered some good performances.
On the other hand, I felt that the movie was a bit fast in first half and a bit slow in the second half. There was an extra stretch of 15-20 minute which can be omitted and can convert it in a better art. Also I didn’t like the climax, I felt that the hero should not get life-after-death. If the movie ended at the shotgun sound, it could create more impact than it did. And that is something, which keeps RDB better than this. Also I would like the album of Delhi6 more if they could include the Ramlila tracks in that.
On a final note, it's a worth watch and you should go for it:
Delhi6
New Look
The life has changed and so the look and feel of this blog...
I have spent some time to restructure this blog, which include:
- Change Schema, which includes change of the HEADER.
- Proper labeling of posts (Earlier I used to label a post by everything contained in the posts, now I divided the post in some categories.)
- Introduced an animated Label Cloud.
- Removing Sponsors.
Q&A vs Slumdog Millionaire
Very rarely, a movie based on a book is better than its inspiration. Slumdog Millionaire belongs to this rare category. I watched the flick sometime back and then I got to read the book after it... trust me, the movie came out N times better than the book (N>1).
For those, who don’t have a background, Danny Boyle picked an Indian book named Q&A by Vikas Swaroop and created a master-piece called ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. The movie and the book convey the idea how someone grown up in slums (or you can say in the worst of conditions) won a huge amount in one of the quiz shows and became a suspect of cheating. Now he narrated about how he came to know the answers of the typical questions asked in the show in the course of his run to win the largest amount ever in a quiz show.
In Q&A, the protagonist named Ram Mohammad Thomas is alone in his journey of life. He met various people and events in his life through which he came to know about the answers of each question asked on the quiz. The protagonist was abandoned and a priest from church found him. But the stories behind each question in the show don’t seem very realistic in the book. Also the book doesn’t create the curiosity... you can easily guess what will be the next question deriving from the story and most of the time you find yourself correct.
In Slumdog Millionaire, they didn’t copy the book as it is... Took some question (3-4, which seem realistic)... And altered the story completely. Here the guy is from the slums of Mumbai who lost his mother in some communal riots. He also has an elder brother who always has a command over the protagonist. They also introduced a girl who is always in the centre and the hero (salim here) always looks for her. Eventually, he meets the events that enable him to answer the quiz questions. The storyline for both the book and the movie is less or more similar but the movie creates curiosity.
Also in the book the purpose of the protagonist of attending the quiz show was not only to catch up with big bucks but also to take revenge from the host. The same didn’t happen in the movie. The book is more into relationships but the movie is more into only one relationship LOVE.
Both are good but if you have seen the movie, I don’t think that you will like the book much. Though I met many contradictory posts, which claims the book to be better, I personally felt that in the war between the two, SLUMDOG has an edge over Q&A.
