But they rise even in times of heart-breaking sorrow, displaying a fineness of the soul. The people in this film are each swayed by it to some degrees and do with it what they will.

Anurag Basu as writer and director displays a keen sensibility for the affairs of the heart. There is a lot of detail and nuance in this film. I wept buckets.Īnd then it has it’s comedic moments, very Chaplinesque and home-grown in nature. Each of these emotions is finely etched and put out for us to see and feel until we are moved. In his life there is a hope and joy, sadness and pathos, love and betrayal and disappointment. It is the tale of a simple, clear-hearted man. Barfi has the sweet-sad mix of emotions much like “Life is Beautiful” although the stories aren’t comparable. Barfi is told from many different view-points at times it is a police inspector (Saurabh Shukla) narrating, at times a friend of Barfi’s, and at times Shruti. Set in the Darjeeling of the1970s, it seems almost like a tale from one of Ruskin Bond’s books. Shruti realizes to her despair that he, apparently, has gotten over her and moved on while she hasn’t. When she meets Barfi some years later, he has a young woman in tow. However Shruti is persuaded by her mother (Ganguly) to choose Ranjeet Sengupta, a well-to-do young man as husband, instead of the impoverished Barfi. He meets Shruti (d’Cruz) and the two fall in love. It is rare that you get more than you expect a good day ’twas then.īarfi (Kapoor) is a deaf-mute happy-go-lucky young man, full of good humor and happiness.

With Barfi, I’d expected a half-decent film. Cast : Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana D’Cruz, Saurabh Shukla, Akaash Khurana, Roopa Ganguly

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