Delhi Belly! The film has nothing to do with Delhi, however Delhi can be taken as a Metaphor for the entire country & the film is a sarcastic take on many things that we have learnt to believe as part of life in this country. Be it the dangling electricity wires, poor housing, shabby living standards or the superficiality of our metropolitan cities.
I am not a film critic by profession but I do carry opinions and I do like things, hate things, dispise things and appreciate the ones that deserve. This film is something that I have loved watching every bit, and there are very few others that I can put in this category.
No it's not the greatest story ever told on Indian cinema screens but it's a revolution none the less. With a simple story in the foreground, It mostly deals in the metaphors. I have seen it as an expression to the deep-covered up-Indian-youth's-frustration, I see it as a satire on India's Metropolitan life. I see it as a satire on the *India Shining * campaigns, a nightmare sold in the disguise of a Dream.
It tells you a simple story of 3 young boys who bump in to a criminal-gang & what happens from there on is a funny roller-coster ride. However, that's the story on the face of it. The treatment and the script leaves an intelligent cinema-goer to ponder over the subtle-messages that are thrown around by the scriptwriter in the form of localities where the film is set, the characters and the sub-plots. The dark humour would be missed by those who would take it on it's face value.
The three male protagonists who are seemingly from good families but are living in filthy conditions is probably a take on the state of education & employment in India and housing in metropolitan cities. The female protagonists appear to be the caricatures of those materialistic metropolitan females in India who carry a frivoluous understanding of the word 'Freedom' & 'Love'? The middle-class neighborhood is a satire on the double-standards of our society. The slum like dwellings of the protagonists talks about the state of living-standards in Indian metros.
For a good professional review, I would recommend the below link:
http://entertainment.in.msn.com/bollywood/reviews/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5252646
I would call it *A Great Indian Kitsch - Part2, Part 1 being Peepli Live* and would love to have more of such dark-homoured cinema. As a film that entertains, I would recommend it to all adults and it's not to be missed!
