Movie Review - Delhi Belly

In my ongoing movie marathon, i caught up with the controversial Aamir Khan production Imran Khan starrer Delhi Belly. Heard of it a lot, i decided to watch the movie.

The Plot:
Tashi(played by Imran Khan) is a journalist who lives in a stinky apartment with his two friends Arup(played by Vir Das) and Nitin(played by Kunal Roy Kapoor). Nitin works as a photographer with Tashi, and Arup works as an animation artist in a company. Tashi has a girlfriend cum fiance Soniya(played by Shehnaz Treasury) whom he intends to marry.

Vladimir - A diamond smuggler Vladimir, comes to India. His associate in illegally exporting diamonds who happens to be an airhostess is busy somewhere,and asks her friend Soniya to take a packet from Vladimir and deliver it to the mentioned address. Soniya being a airhostess herself, doesn'tgo through extensive baggage check.

Menaka(played by Pooja Jagannathan), a special correspondant is a collegue of Tashi, who likes him. They meet during a star's interview. She keeps on hitting him every time she meets him.

On the other hand, Tashi is gifted a car by Soniya's parents.

Soniya gives Vladimir's packet to Tashi for delivering, but Tashi asks Nitin to do so. Nitin gets sick(hence Delhi Belly). Because of this, he is unable to do so, and asks Arun to do so, along with giving a sample for medical examination at the pathological laboratory. Arun mixes up between the two packets, and delivers the sample to the address, and the smuggled packet to the path lab.

Meanwhile, Menaka calls Tashi to a party where he gets into a fight with her husband Rajeev who is extremely drunk. They escape the party, but Rajeev follows them. He damages Rajeev's car a lot. Menaka and Tashi reach a hotel where they are able to escape Rajeev. Tashi drops Menaka to her place, and goes straight to Soniya's place.

The next morning, everyone goes their regular ways. But Cowboy(played by Vijay Raaz) reaches Vladimir's hotel asking for the package. The package contains diamonds worth millions. There they find out the blunder in packet delivery. Cowboy goes to Tashi's house with his men, and hold them. Nitin by chance brings the package from the lab, and when he returns to his place, finds all of them waiting. They find out that the package contains diamonds. Cowboy decides to kill them, but the ceiling for the flat collapes. Cowboy and his men go unconscious, and Tashi and his friends escape.

They sell the diamonds to a trader. But later, Cowboy calls them and they find out that he has Soniya, and he'll kill her if they don't bring the diamonds back. So they go back to the trader who asks them double the price the gave them for the jewels. He throws them out of the place. Tashi includes Menaka in the group and forcefully exchanges the diamonds with him, and escape. Nearby police pursues them. While escaping, Menaka and Tashi go cosy.

Tashi and the group reaches Cowboy's stated place, and are ready to make the exchange. But Cowboy starts pointing the gun at them. Just in the nick of time, the trailing police comes and starts firing, and Cowboy and his men counterfire. Tashi, his friends, Soniya, and Vladimir(who was also in the room) duck , and save their lives. Everyone else in the room is either killed, or left unconscious. They escape. The package containing diamonds falls from the window of the room, and onto Tashi's landlord.

Soniya finds out about Tashi and Menaka go cosying. She goes mad over him for so. Tashi calls off his marriage. Menaka returns to bid final goodbye, but when she's about to leave, Tashi realises his affection for her, and kisses her. The end

Final Take:
The movie funny and stupid. The story isn'tpowerful,but yet manages to make one laugh. Mature people will not like the movie, and so will the female audience, as the movie extremely vulgar. Vulgar abuses are used in the movie in every scene.

Ram Sampath's music is a bit catchy at first look, but slowly one tends to get irritated of them. The old songs used in the movie are good.

The direction is good, one cannot find any contradicting facts in the movie. Usually in such mindless comedies, direction is usually poor. Aamer Khan makes sure the movie has a good end product.

Frankly speaking, Delhi Belly seems like an Indianised version of The Hangover, infact quite is. Its just the Hangover story modified to Indian situations.

My rating for the movie 3 out of 5. Too much abuse, no strong story, and just mayhem in the movie doesn't make me want to give anything more than 1.5, but the humor is just mindblowing.