At a time when Dabaang, Ready and Double Dhamal types of movies are trying to make people laugh with their slapstick and double meaning and often offending dialogues, Delhi belly comes has a breath of fresh air. It is a no-nonsense and on-your-face comedy which doesn't try to be a comic but tickles your funny bone by its sheer situation and characters and their predicaments and difficulties and its fast pace of narration.
Delhi Belly falls in the line of movies such as Sanket City, Phas Gaya Obama and love ke liye kuch bhi kharega, which have entertained people with the sheer power of their scripts and performance.
Delhi Belly doesn't have a great story but it's biggest strength is its script, dialogues and screenplay besides the performances. From the first scene to the last frame, the director never leaves the acccelarator even for a moment as the characters and their predicaments unfold in a breath-taking pace which leaves the audience enthralled.
In fact, by the time the credit starts rolling, you actually feel completely satisfied with Aamir Khan's I hate You (Like I love you) item number serving as a perfect dessert for the audience.
But having said that, it is not for the ones who likes to go out on an weekend with their families or for the moral policing couples. It is a perfect outing for a group of friends -- the 20 and early 30 somethings -- or for couples who are more friends than husbands and wives.
Reasons: Its language is crass, full of slangs, perhaps you can make a dictionary of slangs out of this movie. It is the language of the youths especially of Delhi, which almost every commoner hears day in and day out in the capital and though the language is raw still at no point it seems that the director tried to forcibly include those slangs in the movie. Also if toilet humour makes you abominable then stay away from it, because you have plenty of it here.
Also some of its scenes are too raw by Indian standards, because we think twice before including those in Bollywood perhaps fearing the moral police, although, it is a reality of the young and ever-changing India.
In fine, Delhi Belly is a laugh riot, a complete paisa vasool. It is a kind of film which gives a lot of hope to an industry which generally depend on homophobic and racists jokes to entertain people in the name of comedies. It gives a ray of hope to the dying genre of comedy in Bollywood.
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Delhi Belly is a fully loaded comical crime-caper, a rough and raunchy youth film that doesn’t necessarily entertain for the sake of entertainment, but it certainly has a space and purpose of its own. It has a unique content targeted to selected groups of people. No kids I mean. It evokes laughter in a never done before format and it initiates a huge leap over the traditional approach of seriously funny film making. And when it deals with nucleus comedy, it doesn’t even shy away taking on the generation gap. ‘Daddy mujhse bola, Tu galati hai meri’. Gone is ‘Papa kehte hain bada naam karega’. Altogether, this new age film is a bit vulgar for some, and too awesome for some. Rest of the folks may remain unsure; though they are unlikely to nullify it at one go.
@Robi: Films like Delhi Belly is for a specific audience and it makes no bones about it... Right from the right it made it clear that it is a abusive and only for adults.. so one shouldnt expect a 'Tare zameen Par' from it. It is high time that the Indian audience grow up and try to accept change and different ideas. It is a film which is in the line of 'Hang Over' or other such comedies of Hollywood but the best part is it is original and doesnt copy any foreign film.... keep walkinG!!!
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