"A smile is a curve that sets everything in motion!"
A fact that seems to have been forgotten since long. Thanks to Anurag kashyap for reminding most of us that A Smile still works, through his movie BARFI!
Romance is never easy. Neither is bringing it to the big screen, though Anurag Basu is a fine man for the job.
The story moves back and forth from 1978, 1972 and 2012 in an easy-to-follow fashion and the film’s songs
are simply soulful. Cinematographer Ravi Varman captures the picturesque North Bengal in a splendid way. Each frame seems like a beautiful painting.
The film, told mostly without dialogue, with Kapoor in a Chaplin-inspired performance and a pinch of Rajkapoor from Mera naam joker; Telugu actress Ileana D’Cruz adding elegant solemnity as an upper-class woman; and Priyanka Chopra, sans makeup, as an autistic girl with her wild love for a magical nature of small things is a spectacular bend of Rom-com with an enlightening lesson of love and happiness in small things.
A deaf and dumb center character R.K., an equally mentally under-grown girl sharing the centre P.C. and a beautiful sophistication exemplified by Illeana D'Cruz - might seem like an emotional-tear-droping-n-heart-pouring movie. But, Barfi! admirably refuses to yank the sympathy cord.
There is an explanation for every tiniest moment and movement. And behind every such explanation, their is LOVE that surpasses all the logic that ever existed in this Universe of Odd-n-Small-Things = BARFI!
