> Delhi-6 belongs to A.R. Rahman more than anybody else. greaaaaat quote and sooooo true!
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Gopal Srinivasan <catchg...@...> wrote: > > > > Front Page > Entertainment > Story > http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090221/jsp/entertainment/story_10566665 .jsp > > Sights & sounds of an address > DONâT GO IN LOOKING FOR AN RDB, GIVE IT A CHANCE TO LIGHT A CANDLE OF A DIFFERENT KIND > > The volcano has erupted again. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has done it one more time. Albeit, quite differently. > If Rang De Basanti was all rage without an iota of remorse, Delhi-6 is all love with a dash of hate. If RDB was a public movement, D-6 is a personal monologue. And just like Rang De was what the country needed back in 2006, Delhi-6 needs > to be the new pincode of India. Where the mirror pops up for all > matters of religion, caste, money and power, where you look within > before you point a finger at others. > More than a motion picture, Delhi-6 is > a free flow of ideas, images and sounds. He may harp on the importance > of the script, but Rakeysh Mehra, the erstwhile advertising whiz kid, > is essentially a man of ideas, a bit of a Bollywood visionary. With the > help of the magic troika of A.R. Rahman, Binod Pradhan and Samir Chanda > (production design), Mehra creates a world which explodes in every > frame. Itâs a full-bodied experience, a visceral trip which completely > takes over your senses. > For > the first one hour you may be even excused for thinking that you > stepped into the wrong theatre to watch not a starry Bollywood movie > but a beautifully done documentary on Delhi. > I-am-an-American > Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) brings his ailing grandmother (Waheeda > Rehman) to her Delhi house and thus unfolds Chandni Chowk like you have > never seen it before. The crowded bylanes, the lumbering cows, the > leaning havelis, the reverberating mosques⦠itâs perhaps more > energetic, more colourful and more intricate than what Delhi-6 has been > for a long time. > And just like in Rang De, > Mehra puts the story on the backburner and just lets it rip. Pigeons > fluttering in the air, kites colliding in the sky, chillies drying on > the roof, jalebis frying in the pan⦠Mehra achieves perfection > in the rhythm. Stills, staccato, flickering, slo mo⦠the images unfold > at their own pace, as if they were born on camera. Sometimes the frames > turn into paintings, with smudged shades and muted highlights. Delhi-6 is a sensory tour de force. > No > surprises then that when Mehra remembers that he has a story to tell, > things get rushed. The screenplay (Mehra, Prasoon Joshi, Kamlesh > Pandey) searches for a problem so that it can solve it. > And > when it finds one â" we wonât spoil it for you â" it looks a tad forced > and tired. But thereâs so much to likea in the first 90 minutes of the > 140-minute film, that you go with the flow, swallow the preachy pill > and by the end of it all go seeking the mirror nearest to you. > Delhi-6 belongs to A.R. Rahman more than anybody else. He may get the Oscar for > another movie, but this is clearly a far better work, a soundtrack so > complete that you donât miss a tone. And kudos to cinematographer Binod > Pradhan for bringing those songs alive. Not just Masakkali, the promo queen, all the songs are captured with a lot of heart. But if thereâs one that stands out, itâs Dil gira dafatan. You can watch the movie a couple of times just for this one song, replete with tributes to The Aviator and King Kong! > Mehraâs > ensemble cast provides the punctuation marks in this celluloid collage > and each one brings a unique voice. Rishi Kapoor, Vijay Raaz, Deepak > Dobriyal, Atul Kulkarni, Divya Dutta, Om Puri, Pavan Malhotra, Prem > Chopra, Cyrus Sahukar, Sheeba Chadda, Supriya Pathak, Aditi Rao⦠they > all do their bit in making Delhi-6 the address to visit this spring. > Watching Waheeda Rehman do the thumka again with a twinke in her eyes is a sight for sore eyes. She is luminous as the grand old daadi, > the pillar around which the rest of the cast rallies. She is a bit > neglected in the second half but returns at the right time to bring > things back in perspective. > Perspective > is something that sometimes gets lost with Abhishekâs act. Hereâ s an > uneven performance which is brilliant in certain scenes and plain > ordinary in others. The accentâs there, so is the swagger but the > casualness sometimes strays into disinterest and that certainly doesnât > help the film. He is at his best in the scenes with Sonam and the kids > and totally rocks it in the rap song. > Delhi-6 also reintroduces Sonam Kapoor. After what was essentially a wishy-washy debut in Saawariya, where > she had to peek out of veils and jump out of wells, this movie allows > the dove to spread her wings. There may not be too many she-scenes but > Sonam makes the most of the ones she has. Letâs just say, we wonâ t miss > Kajol anymore. That vivacity, that natural effervescence, that fluidity > is back and how! Change the outfits, give her songs or scenes, place > whoever opposite her, Sonamâs spot on, in every frame. > For just its overwhelming audio-visual eruption, Delhi-6 is a must watch. Donât go in expecting a Rang De Basanti. This one too can light a candle, but quietly, somewhere deep in the heart. >
