Comments on: Review: Delhi-6

By: Indian Homemaker

Indian Homemaker — Sun, 24 May 2009 01:09:52 +0000

Loved the movie. Apart from the obvious delightful reminder of Delhi and life there, it broke so many stereotypes, loved the Masak Ali song, the women bonding, and a desire of the young and independent to break away from such a life…

And our fears of growing hatred and politics were also covered without takng any sides, because no matter what any politicians do or say, eventually it is the people who can refuse to participate in hate-games and violence. And now that he election results are out, it seems we have said a very clear no to such politics atleast for now.

By: Hari

Hari — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:08:02 +0000

The movie worked for me perfectly; had a few questions unanswered for which I had to watch it again…

By: Chaitanya Dharurkar

Chaitanya Dharurkar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:27:21 +0000

Great Movie, Bloody critics they made me watch the movie almost after a month or two of its release.Superb, I would love to watch it a hundred times.The kids were great.It just has caught the essence of “India” and its people.Rakyesh Rocks.

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By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:40:03 +0000

How can you write a review of Delhi 6 and not mention Aditi Rao’s performance even once!

By: Badri

Badri — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:58:53 +0000

The film worked for me and even bulk of the climax was good.
The narrative and screenplay is very strong and all characters barring AB looked and felt real. AB’s character was an issue and his transformation was too sudden – was his love for ‘Bittu’ the driver or his genuine feel for India? How did he develop the feel to make sweeping statements like India works? Also not much background on what he does, how does he take to religion and his being half hindu/ muslim.

Music just rocks and Dil Mera is senational in terms of visualization. Rehna Tu is interesting in terms of placement and narrative. The background score of ARR in second half is a combined ripoff of from OST of Babel, Million Dollar Baby and Munich. Not expected from ARR, especially in his new role as a global ambassador of India!

The interaction with Amitabh as grandfather was needless and the varying cocky accent of AB Jr very flat. It was like seeing Hrithik in the insipid Yaadein.

Overall the movie works and might work better with a second viewing.

To me not in the league of Swades, which had more warmth and depth from the lead persona and supporting characters. And what Swades acheived or even RDB acheived, Delhi 6 does not. In that sense its a brilliant opportunity wasted

By: bart

bart — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:29:17 +0000

The movie doesn’t create any curiosity factor in the first half and second half ending is tacky as pointed. Happy to see so many characters written neatly but somehow they do not put enough weight together in the final outcome. Delhi – single (;not a six ).

By: Praz (the artist formerly known as Akshay Shah

Praz (the artist formerly known as Akshay Shah — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:06:07 +0000

Hey RanganSir, FANTASTIC review as always. Just wanted to let you know i’ll be re-launching my website in coming months and writing as myself (Praz aka Prashant) instead of the Akshay Shah alias…will keep you posted.

In the meantime, I can be found at Satyam’s blog with my reviews.

Keep up the excellent work…

Aap ka fan

Praz (the artist formerly known as Akshay Shah)

By: Santhosh Kottayi

Santhosh Kottayi — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:06:48 +0000

I have a feeling that you are slowly forgetting the simple fact that a movie is just another form of entertainer! And the fact that a movie should be measured purely on whether we were entertained during the 2 and a half hours we sat to watch it! If yes, the movie is good…if no…the movie is bad! And if I measure Delhi 6 with this scale, it is a very good movie. It was like watching a great cricket match where the collections are diverted for a genuine charity…entertainer for a good cause!

Hats off to Rakeysh Mehra for exposing the height of foolishness and the real reason for most of the communal/religious tension in our country in the most convincing way! And strangely, your review is just not touching that point!! It is like you totally ignoring Priyanka Chopra’s amazing performance in Fashion when you were pre-occupied in unfairly exposing Bhandarkar! Hope you are aware about all the accloades Priyanka got for her outstanding performance in that movie..!!
Abishek has come out with a very controlled and matured performance…and Sonam Kapoor clearly announces her arrival with a ‘neat’ performance which can compete with any established heroines! And the music by our one and only Oscar Rahman has given this poetic movie a soothing touch!

cheers,

By: Narsim

Narsim — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:32:26 +0000

The problem with Delhi6 is that it is set in the same milieu as RDB , you get the feeling that the director has tried to fit in what he couldn’t fit in RDB. That is when you start comparing this film with RDB and things fall apart. Much like Shyamalan who has been doing trying to emulate the success of sixth sense so much that he is unable to explore anything else. Hope Mehra doesn’t fall in such a pit.
One of the biggest let downs is the way the OST was so callously treated in the movie. Atleast Rehna Tu deserved better than just the outro being played at some vague shots of NY and a bits and piece treatment in the middle somewhere.
The scenes where Bachchan Senior and Junior reminded me so much of the Harry Potter 7 where Potter and Dumbledore meet for one last time. Bachchan Sr will make a darned good Dumbledore though