Just got back from watching Delhi6 and for those who read just the first few lines of blog posts… Go and watch it, its worth more than what you pay for it.

I was dreading going for this movie because I thought Rang De Basanti was a class act and any filmmaker would be tough put to follow it with another movie of the same calibre.

Making movies about today, the common man and topical to boot is tough to say the least, specially if they make you think. People who do it really well would usually be pleased, not to mention blessed, to do it once in a lifetime. To do it with every movie they make is sheer genius, hats off to Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Here is finally a contemporary filmmaker worth emulating.

Delhi6

Delhi6

With the success of Slumdog Millionaire at the Oscars and Golden Globes we do see there is an international market for movies made with a completely Indian sensibility and environs.

Maybe Indian filmmakers can take a leaf out of  ROMPs and Danny Boyle’s success and start focussing inwards instead of showing us unreal lifestyles of the rich and idiotic in climes that have no co-relation to our everyday lives. And maybe some of them would spend time writing scripts that work too, about us, not just about the same old stuff they have been till now. There have been many exceptions so I hope you wont take this as an attack on all Indian cinema.

I guess Indian film going audiences are coming of age too, I don’t think anyone left that theatre without a profound respect for the movie and ROMPs craft. We do want more and are ready for it

I’m not going to try and analyse the movie for you, or even provide you with a ‘review’ – I wouldn’t dare. This film is an experience and I suggest you do just that – experience it.

For those who’re interested, the official site is at http://www.delhi6.co.in – another first… a .in official site? Or maybe that has at least been done before.