Today was Sunday and after about three weeks I stepped out of home. Last week only Debu came back from his US trip and since he is shuffling between jetlag and office hours, I could not pester him for taking me out on the weekdays. Today only we went out to see "Delhi Belly" and the movie, as I figured, was another masterpiece of Aamir Khan. The last movie produced by Aamir was "Dhobi Ghat" and like that movie, Delhi Belly too centred around a bunch of people from middleclass backgrounds surviving through life fraught with obstacles and complications. Unlike other Bollywood flicks shot in beautiful locations of foreign countries and involving rich people, these two movies shot in India were intellectual representation of life lived by common people.
There was one scene in Delhi Belly reminding me of Satyajit Roy's way of depicting a simple fact through a simple way without going overboard. The character called Nitin would gorge on some spicy pieces of Chicken Tanduri bought from a sleazy roadside food corner and would suffer from indigestion and loose motion for several days. The way it was shown in the movie was truly remarkable. In Satyajit Roy's 'Jono Aronya', Satyajit Roy too portrayed a scene in a similar artistic fashion. The protagonist appeared in the final exam of BA History honours and fared really well. However, he confronted the harsh reality when he scored barely the pass marks and found all his dreams and hardwork of First Class gone down the drain, because the examiner assigned with his paper lost spectacles and gave him average marks for the tiny dots of his handwriting appearing hardly intelligible under the dim light of lantern. The same kind of simplistic yet effective manner of depiction predominates in Delhi Belly.
Another thing worth admiration about the movie is that there were many scenes likely to be appearing too gross and shoddy because of the content involved in it but the subtlest way they were handled and woven within the story was sheerly commendable. Not for a single time I found myself scoffing at the scene showing stool sample poured on table nor the sounds of burps and farts appeared offensive to me. Rather they elicited frequent peals of laughter from the audience as intended. In short, watching Delhi Belly was a truly enjoyable experience and after a long time, I laughed my lungs out watching a movie.
Oh forgot to note that tonight I bumped into one of my old friends who coincidentally came for watching the same movie in the same hall. He studied with me to the same sir when we were in std ix and later he enrolled himself for a while in Asutosh College with English Honours, but after few months he shifted to another college for pursuing law course. Now, he is married and working in a reputed private firm in Bangalore. For a brief instance, I felt myself travelling back into the bygone days when we were all young and full of aspirations. It feels so nice to catch up with childhood friends bringing some treasured memories back.
There was one scene in Delhi Belly reminding me of Satyajit Roy's way of depicting a simple fact through a simple way without going overboard. The character called Nitin would gorge on some spicy pieces of Chicken Tanduri bought from a sleazy roadside food corner and would suffer from indigestion and loose motion for several days. The way it was shown in the movie was truly remarkable. In Satyajit Roy's 'Jono Aronya', Satyajit Roy too portrayed a scene in a similar artistic fashion. The protagonist appeared in the final exam of BA History honours and fared really well. However, he confronted the harsh reality when he scored barely the pass marks and found all his dreams and hardwork of First Class gone down the drain, because the examiner assigned with his paper lost spectacles and gave him average marks for the tiny dots of his handwriting appearing hardly intelligible under the dim light of lantern. The same kind of simplistic yet effective manner of depiction predominates in Delhi Belly.
Another thing worth admiration about the movie is that there were many scenes likely to be appearing too gross and shoddy because of the content involved in it but the subtlest way they were handled and woven within the story was sheerly commendable. Not for a single time I found myself scoffing at the scene showing stool sample poured on table nor the sounds of burps and farts appeared offensive to me. Rather they elicited frequent peals of laughter from the audience as intended. In short, watching Delhi Belly was a truly enjoyable experience and after a long time, I laughed my lungs out watching a movie.
Oh forgot to note that tonight I bumped into one of my old friends who coincidentally came for watching the same movie in the same hall. He studied with me to the same sir when we were in std ix and later he enrolled himself for a while in Asutosh College with English Honours, but after few months he shifted to another college for pursuing law course. Now, he is married and working in a reputed private firm in Bangalore. For a brief instance, I felt myself travelling back into the bygone days when we were all young and full of aspirations. It feels so nice to catch up with childhood friends bringing some treasured memories back.
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