Barfi Movie Review

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Illeana D’Cruz, Saurabh Shukla, Roopa Ganguly, Jishu Sengupta

Director: Anurag Basu

Only the fact that this film’s chief focus is on a couple who cannot communicate how you and I do, causes it to be automatically different. ‘Barfi!’ arrives of mainstream Bollywood, whose standard concept of creating difference would be to shuffle one step forward, two steps back : considering that context, and its subject, 'Barfi’! takes several brave strides. It’s good in lots of ways; what stops it from as being a great film is really a degree of fuzziness, and an insistence on prettiness.

Barfi (Kapoor) is exactly what a speech-and-hearing challenged boy calls himself, while he cannot pronounce Murphy. We adore Barfi just the way we should : helplessly and happily. He's endearing and naughty, child-like qualites which endure because he steps into adulthood and also the first stirrings of romance. Those feelings arrived at the fore when Barfi sees the gorgeous Shruti (D’Cruz), who comes to Darjeeling together with her parents.

But there’s something about Barfi, and exactly how he makes her feel, that they doesn’t find with the man (Sengupta) she's promised to. Done beautifully may be the bitter-sweetness of their relationship-- a young man whose lightness of spirit enables you to believe that his disabilities don't impede his enjoyment of life, as well as an inexperienced young girl who gets confused between your signals of the heart and head. Watching over her is worried mom (Ganguly) in a brief, but effective cameo, despite the fact that her strand seems inspired with a Hollywood film.