Delhi 6 Falling, Falling, Falling – Down 75%
Abhishek’s Delhi 6 Fails to Sizzle at Box Office
Folks, for the first time in so many years there were 17 people (12 initially + 5 more trooped in just as the movie started) for the 12:30PM show of a Bollywood movie in the U.S. on a Friday!
That’s a record because usually there are no more than three or four jobless guys (to use a phrase that we’ve been slammed with recently by Bala’s fanboys for daring to see a movie on a weekday) for the opening show.
The relatively large audience for Delhi 6 notwithstanding, the best one can say about Abhishek Bachchan’s latest misadventure is that it does not plumb the septic depths like his last disaster Drona.
Alien to Acting
Make no mistake.
Abhishek Bachchan is still the same lobotomized duffer, completely foreign to the notion of acting.
As is his wont, the lazy dolt sleepwalks through the movie never making even the feeblest attempt to give the paying audience its due for shelling out $8.50 or sacrificing 2 hours and 20 minutes of their short time on Earth.
For the most part, this Abhishek fella looks and acts as if he’s been dropped one too many times on his head as a child (and in his later years as well).
Irrespective of what the scene demands, it’s all the same to this somnambulist clown in advanced rigor mortis. Do you think Abhishek Bachchan was Harman Baweja’s teacher in non-acting.
And what’s with the phony American accent when it comes to English but the regular Dilli accent when it comes to Hindi, Abhishek?
That Bollywood fans have to put up with this bandar is one of India’s manifold injustices. Well, such are the vagaries of life.
The Story
Prasoon Joshi, Kamlesh Pandey and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra prove that even three heads can turn in a real sloppy job when it comes to the story and screenplay in a Bollywood movie. More like three blockheads.
Delhi 6 starts off with the arrival in Delhi of a New York-based NRI Roshan Mehra (Abhishek Bachchan) with his sick Dadi (Waheeda Rehman), who’s adamant about spending her final days in the old family home and amidst her people.
After that, the aforementioned blockhead troika lose their way completely and the movie turns into a meandering ordeal for the audience.
Like an errant river after a flood, the story wanders where it pleases Continue reading »
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