Barfi! Promo suggested movie to be from
Rom-Com genre. But after watching movie it is not from any genre its from every
genre without being a masala film. Yes,
the movie fulfills the expectation everyone was having from it, be it a critics
or audience. Barfi has the capability to win everyone’s heart.
Barfi starts
in present time from where the narrator Mrs. Sengupta(Ileana D'Cruz) takes us
to somewhere in 70’s and tell us about a guy named Murphy but everyone calls
him Barfi (Ranbir Kapoor). Barfi is deaf and dumb but believes to live every
moment of life and test his friends with his special friendship test. Shruti(Mrs.
Sengupta) comes to Darjeeling with her family. Like any other bollywood film
they both fall in love. Shruti’s mother(Rupa Ganguly) tells her that after the marriage
you won’t be able to live in a silence and Shruti leaves Barfi behind choose
Ranjit(Jishu Sengupta), a well settled man. But after the marriage there was
silence in her life as they can’t feel each other.
Here in
Darjeeling Barfi met her childhood friend(Jhilmil). After 6 years Barfi met Shruti in Kolkata with
Jhilmil. One day Jhilmil lost away and when Mrs. Sengupta a.k.a. Shruti files a
police case she came to know that Barfi is charged of bank robbery and
kidnapping. How, Why, When all these question are answered by Anurag Basu, the
director, in the film.
Film starts
seriously moves to rom-com than to family drama than to romantic and lastly a
suspence thriller. Characters are very well written by the writer and executed
by actors. Comic scenes are wonderful. Love story of Ranbir-Priyanka is superb
and divine, yes divine. Last scene where Jhilmil is calling Barfi but he can’t
listen but Mrs. Sengupta can. Now she has to make a choice whether she shols
tell Barfi or not is so well showed that audience can feel what’s going in the
mind of her and that makes Anurag a winner.
From the
first scene you feel connected Barfi and till the last you become too attached
to Barfi that you don’t want to leave the hall but you have to.
First of all
talks about the story, Anurag Basu’s story is interesting, new and a way better
than present films. Director Anurag Basu tells his own written story in his own
way and one word for that fantastic. Backdrop
of the film, Darjeeling, gave cinematographer the chance to show his full
talent and Ravi Varman gets full marks for that.
Only low
thing about movie is that sometime it looks to go down because of long
sequences. Editing isn’t that sharp as it has to be.
Ranbir Kapoor lives the character of Barfi and
nothing else to tell about him. He is impressing everyone with his choice of
films. Priyanka plays an autistic suffering girls and she did a fantabulous job
here. Ileana in her maiden bollywood film is brilliant. Saurabh Shukla as
police inspector is superb. All supporting characters are full rated.
Music is marvelous,
sweet and fit to story. Pritam did an outstanding job here for which he is well-known.
From the ‘Barfi!’ to ‘Sawali Raat’, 'Phir Le Aya Dil' or ‘Aashiyan’ every song is the heart of the
movie.
Last Word,
whichever genre you love Barfi! is for you. This Barfi! isn’t only sweet it is
sour and soupy too.
My Ratings: 4.5/5
