![]() ![]() Against your will, you may even shed a tear. Or it may wear you down (another Hindi movie specialty) as it builds its emotional slow burn. And at 150 minutes, it may try your patience. “Barfi!” is at times, though not noticeably more so than most Hindi movies, despite its premise of special lovers with a special lesson to teach. ![]() (Ravi Varman did the movie-lush cinematography.)īollywood isn’t afraid to be mawkish. The two sometimes communicate with light, bouncing its reflection off mirror shards. In one scene Barfii blows bubbles that enclose fireflies, mesmerizing Jhilmil. “Barfi!” has long sequences with minimal or no dialogue, putting the emphasis on the visuals. ![]() The comedy registers mostly as pathos, but the silent-movie influence remains strong. Kapoor, who gets better as the movie goes along, often seems to be channeling his grandfather Raj Kapoor, who incorporated aspects of Chaplin’s Tramp in his screen persona. The deaf Barfii - his own contortion of his real name, Murphy - plays the silent clown, and Mr. ![]() “Barfi!” is billed as a romantic comedy, and there are several nods to Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. This week we feature the 2012 Hindi language film BARFI that's just full of silent movie magic and more heart and feels than I was able to. (Cue the songs: the movie does.) Stripped of conventional social expectations, Barfii (Ranbir Kapoor) and Jhilmil (a deglamorized Priyanka Chopra) have nothing to follow but their hearts, and nothing to battle but kidnappings, death and venality. The lovers in Anurag Basu’s engagingly odd “Barfi!” - he’s deaf and mute, she’s autistic - are a particularly pure expression of a cherished Bollywood theme: love is the supreme goal. ![]()
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