Bareilly ki Barfi — Movie Review

Siddarth Gore
Aug 25, 2017 · 2 min read
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Ladki ho na disaster hain ekdum.

If I describe this movie to you, you would shrug and say ‘so what’s new?’. It is a every day ‘typical’ movie. Begins with Kriti Sanon’s character being established in the ‘girl that was raised like a boy’ fashion which we all love (at least the male audience does). Romantic and heart-of-gold guy who also moonlights as a story writer to douse the flames of a lost love? Ayushmann Khurana, Check. Boy falls in love with girl, but circumstances take some funny (and scripted) turns so that he fails to reveal his feelings…blah..blah and some more blah. In spite of all this, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

This is not a paradox. Yes, the story (credited to ‘Ingredients of Love’ — an English translation of a French novel) is not very different or interesting. But who cares? This is a movie, and it scores in the three most critical aspects of movie making. Acting. Script. Direction.

The lead actors are superb. Especially Rajkumar Rao. But so are Bitti’s parents played by Pankaj Tripathi and Seema Pahwa. The characters are balanced (two of them are ‘tula’ rashi) and very identifiable. The simple and clean comedy (suicide spot comes to mind) that they manage to evoke had me laughing (a little too loudly) many times.

The over-thinking guy inside me also got some fodder to munch on. Can a meek (geek) become a stud if he is coached to pass off as one? Being a stud is mostly ‘hawa’ after all. It can be created around you if you believe in it. Also noteworthy were the mysterious ways in which love works it wonders. It first makes the smitten person become extremely selfish (almost evil) it its intense focus to achieve the object of its desire. But then it also makes him realize the other’s viewpoint and become extremely self sacrificing. Frankly speaking I have become to old to understand all this ishq-vishq mumbo-jumbo.

Oh, to be young and to feel love’s keen sting. — J.K.Rowling

Alas!

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I have no illusions about myself, including this one.

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