Delhi 6, a letter to the director

Mr. Rakeysh OmPrakash Mehra,

What happened? Are you ok? Fever, hallucinations, impartial vision? No? Then WHAT HAPPENED?

You rope in an awesome cast (Abhishek Bachchan, Waheeda Rahman, Rishi Kapoor, Vijay Raaz, Om Puri, and a host of Mumbai theatre actors which are the best among the lot of actors in the country), you pick awesome locations as the focal point of the story (Old Delhi, and a bits and peices of New York), you have amazing talent (NO dont deny it, Aks and Rang De Basanti proved it to us) and then you mess it all up? ALL up?

Why did you take two-thirds of the movie to get to ONE point? Why did you waste the amazing talent you had at hand? Why did you just assume that two people can fall in love over one meeting of Rat Poison???? And that we, the public would buy it?

You had some genius strokes in the movie, I could see that. The montaging of scenes, the interspersing with the Ram Leela, and the songs. You did shoot the songs in the beginning of the film, put all your love of the film into it and then lose interest din’t you? Shame on you.

So please explain to me, what did Bittu and Roshan fall in love over? Rat Poison (Sorry for the repetition), skirts pulled down below the waist, a black tee shirt shining away like shiny disco balls, or her calling him Burger-chaap? What did the people in the movie get agitated over, the afore mentioned shiny disco balls again? and pray what, WHAT were you getting at all with your kaala bandar hoopla?

C’mon.. tell us – What happened to you? Someone suggested that you were trying to convert your black money into white with this film, but even that can’t make sense. Something happened to you, pray tell us what.

Disappointedly yours,
Pragni

3 Comments

  1. ‘C’mon.. tell us – What happened to you?”

    hehehe…this reads like a mom admonishing kid!!! cute though.

    Haven’t seen the movie, and maybe never will :)

  2. Abhishek without supporting actors was enuf reason for not goin for this movie …Pragni u tel me wat made you watch this movie ? What happened to you ????

  3. I guess you are seeing too much of Hindi movies that u need to see a full fledge Love story blooming in the movie…were u expecting to see a love story .. then I guess this film was not for u …. It is much beyond the love story. It tries to show u things that are present in the today’s Indian and how it affects people around…. You do remember case about Raj thackrey. and the Gujarat riot case. the kaal Bandar was used just as a symbol of these stigma we have in society… I would agree that movie is not as good as Rang De Basanti and could have been made better but it does make a point and it worth a watch….


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