Expecting to Hate Delhi but Loving it Instead

I'd like to add the whole concept of the NRI coming 'home' and fixing things is very outdated. Indians don't need NRIs to show them what they should be doing.

#7, Drlokraj, given that that's what the director himself says, that he wanted to educate people on who they should vote for, there's no point in saying he didn't do that.
He does have the right to do it too.

I did not like the melodrama in the second half which clearly appeared very artificial, but first half was quite interesting.
Looking for pro Congress or anti BJP message is also like taking things too far like the stretching of the second half of the film. Indian voter is not that stupid.

Masak kali is good. Don't know about KB.

what is a half-muslim-half-hindu? how do you justify such "religion"?

so ... masak kali & kala bandar are an example of good music? hmmmmm

ext-a-see

I suppose one of the reasons could be that mainstream Bollywood flicks are a combo of mujra/cabaret/side show where people go to have themselves titillated and not for an intellectual pursuit. So when they start building up a sorry excuse of a plot it runs out in the middle and they have to jack it up again to have the audience sit through another hour or so.

hmm I always wonder why Bollywood always loses it in the middle of the film?

Why would anyone go so deeply in the film after watching Sonam's excellently choreographed (and Oh! So cute!) song? A R Rehman should have had the Oscar for that song. Other than that, there should be no reason to watch the entire movie.

I thought it was a rather old-fashioned film, it should have been made 30 years ago. You cannot treat sweepers in that manner now and survive, and honestly, you shouldn't be able to. People are likely to climb over a cow in labour, not start worshipping it. I would have understood if the film had been made by an NRI, but it's not.
Notice, btw, that the fight in Delhi 6 is started by a figure who looks like Mayawati, but is from a BJP-like party, so it's fairly obvious who he blames. The purpose of the film seemed to be to campaign for the Congress party. I saw an interview with the director where he said that while the Vote India and other campaigns had not been successful when it came to quantitative voting (percentages were lower than ever), "it was successful qualitatively because viewers were more informed." The idea is that the whole point of his film and all the campaigns to get people to vote was to say, 'Vote for the Congress party'.
But people are entitled to like any films at all.
I have the horrible feeling I might be related to you, what with the Baidya clannishness, were you at Rutgers recently?