The barber and the monkey

The foundations of my passion for Bollywood were shaken this week - I saw Billo and Dilli 6. Oh what a huge mistake! Billo had Irrfan and SRK in the lead. What's wrong with Priyadarshan? It was a movie about a poor barber and his rich actor friend. Everyone and everything about the movie except Irrfan was disappointing. The utter negligence towards the core of any movie - the script was shocking. The music was bad. SRK was irritating. Lara Dutta looked old. Rajpal Yadav was pathetic - the list goes on and on...

Dilli - 6 was much worse as my expectations from the movie were high. Rakeysh Mehra had directed Rang De Basanti. He could have got any producer, actors, script writer etc. But what did he do? Directed Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor in a direction less movie. It does not need a first half and the second half can be kept 10 minutes long. It has no meat. And over and above that, there is Amitabh Bachchan in heaven. Yikes!

I will be watching Dev D soon. Please please please Bollywood. Keep my passion alive...