Movie Review: Delhi Belly

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Wah wah wah! Am so impressed.. Seeing a new Hindi movie after so long, and I wasn't disappointed at all!

Aamir Khan has managed to consistently deliver something new and good everytime, and he has done it again..! And I think its a good idea for Imran Khan also to stick to doing projects with his mamu. Was a welcome change from Luck and Kidnap (neither of which I had the courage to watch actually!).

Anyways to the movie.. Delhi Belly is in a league of its own, so very different from the English artsy kind of movies we are so used to seeing.. So cool and chic and youthful without being pretentious and artificial.. It just felt so natural, to the point of surprising me!

The story is nothing new I guess, its been done to death in many movies especially Guy Ritchie's ones.  Delhi Belly is similar, tracing a couple of days in the life of three friends staying in a run-down house in Delhi. One is a journalist, one a photographer and one a cartoonist: each character has his own life problems to deal with! Ranging from a 'delhi belly',  a 'betrayed romance' to an 'impending marriage'. And to add to their problems is a cache of diamonds mixed up with Delhi Belly shit!

Yes, the plot sounds nothing out of this world, but the execution has been perfect! A very very fast paced storyline, tightly woven together.. New and unexpected things happen every few minutes, you just don't know what to expect next! You are just thrown from one situation to another, and you are just running with the story.. as they say, Bhag Bhag DK Bose!

With a hot colleague thrown in here and a greedy jeweller thrown in there: a philandering landlord here and a ruthless gangster there; a crazy ex-husband here and a dumb girlfriend there: a diamond heist here and a fallen roof there! The movie has it all and much more. Just don't know where to begin and where to end!

Can just say this though, the movie blew my mind away.. I think its at a different level from the rest of the movies we see, and takes care of one of the weakest link in most Hindi movies.. The ignored storyline...

And the song Bhag Bhag DK Bose deserves a special mention. It just gets the beats running everytime it plays.

A good movie, go watch it! Its a 4.5 stars from me!

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