Delhi Silly

Delhi seems to be flavour of this quarter. First, the distintive Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye (OLLO) then the best-adapted Dev D (DD) and now, Delhi - 6 (D6).

D6 and OLLO belong to 'no-story' genre. The narrative play the role of both the story and screenplay. Now, there are many such movies though, 'Alaipayuthe (Saathiya)' , if i may consider to belong to this genre, really worked for me.

It has one of the mammoth star casts where each one of them if streched like a K serial could have a story of its own.  And such is their performance, that you won't question if there's any story or not. Honestly, you shouldn't. 

What should really matter is the narrative or the going-ons. An ABCD, Bachchan Jr, 'accidentally' arrives India, D6 to be precise to 'drop off' the-one-waiting-to-return-to-soil, Waheeda Rehman.

The hero gets hooked to the chaos and confusion of the place and slowly and steadily starts to like the place. 

Now, I would neither be writing too much into the 'story' nor the supporting cast as they are just  two many. But, trust me, each one of them is just superb! My pick would be Vijay Raaz, Deepak Dobriyal and Divya Dutta.

And of course, Masakali - representing both the dove and the heroine, Sonam. She is just spontaneous and awesomely natural though i wished she have had a meaty role.

The hero, Abhishek, gives yet another understated performance (previous one being in Dostana, difference being, here he's liked). His 'accented' dialogue delivery gets a bit on ur nerves yet somewhat likeable is the fact that he provides the podium for the narration in the form of voice-over.   

Even, Big B's presence at the end doesn't add anything special to the already-preachy second half.

The Monkey Man and Ram Leela episodes are stretched a bit more than required. The mirror-holding concept (to symbolize to 'look within' and remove evil) works initially though after a certain point, people really start looking into the mirror to check if they actually dozed off or not!

D6 is as honest  as Rang De Basanti but tends to get a bit preachy and after some time, the whole thing looks silly.

That said, it really boasts of some brilliant technical work in terms of Cinematography, Background score and songs, editing, and art direction. Chandni Chowk really comes alive in Samir Chanda's art work. 

Rakeysh is let down by his own script this time though the film has a good soul and honest intentions. Watchable once.    

Rating: 2.5/5