Delhi 6...Nice untill the Preaching. Review on Delhi 6

I loved the masa kali….. song when I heard it in FM. And I was eagerly waiting to see Sonam Kapoor in daylight after the gloomy and somewhat depressing Saawaria. So, how could I miss Delhi 6?

Story: the Story starts interestingly with the mystery of a monkey-man devastating the daily life of Delhi. In this backdrop Roshan (Abhishek Bachhan), an NRI, comes to Delhi with his grandmother Waheeda Rahman as per her wish. Waheeda was detected cancer in US (where her son’s family lives) and wanted to come back to her roots for her last few days.

Roshan was completely new to the charming life of Delhi and started liking it. Also, he found a lovely neighbour Bittu (Sonam Kapoor) to fall in love with. In the meantime, a riot like situation opens up between the two clans of the area when supposedly the monkey man destroys a Muslim’s shop in that area. At first Roshan was aghast to see people fighting out of no reason and decides to go back to US. But later he decides to stay back and took a drastic step to prevent the riot. In the process Roshan might encounter death. Would he?.....wont he?...........well, go and watch the movie yaar. Why would I leak the costly secret (movie tickets are so high priced now a days….!!!)

Analysis: The first part of the movie is interesting showing the not-so-known life of Delhitites. I have visited the city 2-3 times. But all that were for some official purpose or sightseeing so all that I can remember are the Forts and monuments and some busy wide roads. Never seen the Delhi that was there in the movie! There were cameos from well known actors like Om Puri, Rishi Kapoor, Prem Chopra, Divya Dutt and others which you will surely remember. All of them acted well. And there were two naughty kids…..who did surprisingly well. Specially, I liked the “jalebi” incident. It was simply awesome….

Sonam looks lovely and quite real. Abhishek has also done a good job. Songs are also nice and likable. But…in the second half Rakesh Mehra ends up in almost teaching you that “the evil resides in human mind. Search in yourself to detect that evil and to get rid off that” the idea is really nice but was it so necessary to preach your audience?

Rakesh Mehra is not the pioneer to discover this simple truth. Is he? Didn’t we read this in a number of poems, novels, articles etc lets say, for over a century? Rabindra Nath Tagore has written way back that “both the heaven and hell, both the God and demon, resides within ourselves”. Till a social message in wrapped in entertainment in a movie, it feels good.

But it becomes boring when the director tries to teach. So, the second half was little boring and quite predictable and obvious. Also, the story never picked up the lines from where it started. In the very 1st scene a man was shown to responding to natures call and something happens to him. But he was left unattended throughout.

I liked the climax. That much of humour was very needed for me after all those preaching. And our generation has been raised up to bollywood movies where anything and everything is possible to the hero and heroine. They never get hurt whether jumping from a mountain or sky-rise. Don’t get bothered by the n number of bullets from the villains……and come back from death in every now and then. In fact, now a days I like such things. Who wants to revisit the real life in a movie hall too yaar…….