A breath of fresh air, delightful, poignant, simple and unconventional by the standards of the Hindi Commercial cinema - that is BARFI for you.....several generations have come up watching Hindi films that treat physical disability as something to laugh at . BARFI treats the subject with great empathy and respect ....the treatment may not stand up to the scrutiny of the medical world but as a tale told, it makes a point.
Laced with many a moments of simple joys of living, the film presents to us the growing versatility of Ranbir Kapoor ........he carries the film on his shoulders, showing courage to play a difficult role, shorn of any glamour and action..... As he plays the role of a deaf and mute, the film has long stretches of silence , reminding us of the recent success of the English silent movie ( The Artist) ....the simplicity of the character and his frugal ways, at times take us back to the style that Raj Kapoor adopted in his early days.....
A tad too long and with some obvious flaws in the story, it is still a landmark film and is not be missed. Do go and see it .....
RSK
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