Film: Delhi 6

Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Cast: Waheeda Rehman, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Om Puri, Supriya Pathak, Vijay Raaz, Sheeba Chaddha, Cyrus Sahukar, Prem Chopra, Pawan Malhotra, Atul Kulkarni

Rating: 2/5

After watching a film, you walk out of the cinema hall having a rather clear picture or none at all of what the film was about. Delhi 6 steals that very right from you, walking out you can't exactly pin point what the film was about in the first hour and what it was in the next.

Delhi 6 begins as this beautiful and awe striking visual of a Delhi that perhaps we could only read or witness through those who lived there. It begins by taking us through the lives of the residents of Delhi 6 and the nitty-gritty's of their lives.

Warring brothers, the close knit women, communal harmony, the bordering on dangerous glorification of religious conviction; the film in bits and pieces explores it all. It soon enough begins to moves focus into the life of U.S return, Indian at heart boy Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) and his involvement with the residents of Delhi 6.

Doing that, the film also manages to go into this other tangent of exploring wannabe Indian Idol and neighbor, Bittu's life (Sonam Kapoor). An hour into these many stories and lives, with all but a banal reason the film moves into exploring the monkey man incidents that hit Delhi and soon enough communal tension. Quintessentially because there is a male actor and a female actor the film also has the love angle. Eventually in the end the film moves into this preachy overtone of good and bad and while all this happens you are expected to sit patiently.

After having finished watching the movie, you end up feeling tired having gone through so many lives and songs. The sad part in this is the fact that the lives you go through really have no memorable moments and the songs actually come at random only to hamper any moment that is there. The first half of the film is like one of those non-stop music Mp3 CD's you can pick up with songs rolling one after another in shuffle mode. Songs in the film come and go at moments you don't even...

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