Delhi Belly - Grunge is Back!

Watched Delhi Belly for the second time today. Awesome shit! When the history of early 21st century Indian cinema is written this spunky, irreverent fix of celluloid karma will surely be marked as a watershed movie. More than half of the credit goes to the obnoxiously talented Akshat Verma who took eighteen long months to write the story. Now that’s a profoundly stupid statement -- someone should chastise me with statistics to show that length of time spent on a script is negatively correlated with a movie's popularity. The other half of the credit (give and take some) lies of course with the actors, the director and all the other folk that worked for this movie. I am trying hard not to name names but the kickass performances of Vir Das, Imran Khan, Kunaal Roy Kapur and Vijay Raaz as well as Ram Sampath’s music are just too good to ignore. Where was this guy hiding when they were composing the youth anthems and the theme songs for the err … high-voltage events?    

Having lived for months in areas that could be considered Delhi’s underbelly -- where the Delhi of Lutyens and Ansal gives way to bleak urban ghettos, sizzling with raw energy -- one could immediately connect with the grunge and the dark humor of this breathless story. I wouldn’t give you even the briefest outline of it and spoil the fun, but below is a Youtube video of a tasting sample. The video is from the theatrical trailer of Delhi Belly. (You might see a pesky little ad at the beginning. Ignore it)

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Video link courtesy Youtube.