Mar 01, 2009 07:48 PM
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(Updated Mar 01, 2009 07:48 PM)
Its been a month since Director Priyadarshan's Billu Barber has been released.Besides directed by a great director this film has a great star casttoo. This film is inspired by a Tamil and Malayalam film story. Thisfilm is basically based on friendship between an ordinary barber who runs his saloon and a superstar.
The story talks of a village barber Billu [Irfaan Khan]. His wife [LaraDutta] understands him and always stands by him during his tough times, his children forever make fun of him. Billu isn't able to meet hisdaily demands, not even making up for his childrens school fee. Butthings aren't the same, a film unit visits his village to shoot a movie and with the unit comes superstar Sahir Khan [Shahrukh Khan] Billu'schildhood buddy.
Billu's acquaintance during his childhood days with Sahir Khan is knownto the entire village. Now the villagers make a U-Turn in theirbehavior towards Billu. They treat him graciously. Everyone is readyto favor him in all spheres. But at the same time everyone starts coaxing him to meet the superstar, all for their own benefits.
The crucial moment for Billu comes when he wonders with conflicting emotions doubting whether Sahir would remember him, since Sahir is atop-charting superstar now. Then Billu tries and make attempts to meet Sahir but fails because of Sahir's security. With this the villagers start getting more restless and an already in trouble Billu has to face their additional wrath. What it all leads to forms rest of the film.
Although the story has been taken from the Malayalam film, Hats off toPriyadarshan for adapting it well to a present day North Indian villagesetting. Priyan has handled his huge lot of characters very well andbrought out humor from the most unexpected situations in this film.
Acting wise, Irfaan Khan is simply superb. He is just natural to thecore. Shahrukh Khan is good as usual. Lara Dutta has done well as avillage woman with two kids. Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, Manoj Joshi andRasika Joshi are fine. Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and DeepikaPadukone looks gaurgeous in their item songs.
On the whole, Billu is a simple story about simple people, told in themost simplistic manner. Billu is more of an Irfaan Khan film than aShahrukh khan one. The film will surely be enjoyed by viewers of allage group. Climax of the film is superb and really deserves an appreciation.
The actual question of the whole discussion is if Sharukh Khan can equal Mr. Rajnikanth in the acting front. And if he still can captivate the minds of the South India audience when compared to KUSELAN, the movie originally made in Tamil.
It also true that the Tamil presentation was made within a span of 80 days(please correct me if I am wrong) and it has taken a ample amount of time for Billu to show his face on the Golden Banner. We all knew that the movie was in the making even before the Kuselan project was started.
So let's all ponder over this-----------
KUSELAN RAJNIKANTH vs BILLU SHARUKH KHAN
Cheeers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
