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Aarohi



This love note to Delhi is beautifully written and crafted, even if it completely falls apart towards the end.

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  1. Arun 21 February 2009
    06:03:47 am

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    Superb review here! Agree entirely!

  2. utkal 21 February 2009
    09:10:56 am

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    “In a way, Mehra lets us see what Swades might have resembled had it been tailored towards a multiplex audience.’

    Thank god, Swades wasn’t tailored towards a multiplex audience. Otherwise instead of a charming, mostly brilliant film we would have had to suffer this boringly intolerable mish-mash.

  3. Som 21 February 2009
    09:23:13 am

  4. Som 21 February 2009
    09:32:16 am

  5. utkal 21 February 2009
    09:52:11 am

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    “Abhishek Bachchan doesn’t play a ‘Delhi 6’ type. Unfortunately no one in this film does. Bachchan’s character, Roshan, is an American, whose parents moved to the States before his birth. He’s neither been to India before, nor to a foreign-exchange counter. He tips in US dollars; wears aviator sunglasses, all decked up at his own terrace. The annoyingly constant expression on his face is either of sullen, deep thought (second-half). Or, a dry sarcastic smirk that holds back a laugh (before-interval). He rarely talks.

    When he does, he goes, “India works,” or nudges his grandmother watching Ram Leela, “Hey daadi, look, it’s the golden deer.” The tongue rolls along the ‘r’ in a fake twang mostly acquired from airports like the JFK. In fact it should be called the ‘airport accent’.”

    ONE OF THE MANY THINGS THAT MEHRA DID NOT GET RIGHT IN DELHI 6. ABSOLUTELY SUPERFICIAL WRITING.

  6. Aarkayne 22 February 2009
    02:25:51 pm

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    I loved the entire 1st half of D-6. its only when the kaala-bandar metaphor starts to make its way to some ground realities that Mehra the director falters and loses the audience. Its a heavy film from that point onwards….there were some flaws in my opinion as far as Roshan’s characterisation was concerned. I could not understand his sudden transformation. it almost felt claustrophobic for him to have been locked inside the D-6 locality so much and be transformed thus easily. Overall i would say i am disappointed, but would still go and watch it!

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