The movie begins with a promise and then, in first 10 minutes your expectations take a beating. Slow pace of the movie and poor screenplay ensures that you start feeling uncomfortable in the first 30 minutes.
Coming to the point, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra wasted a commendable starcast that includes Om Puri, Atul Kulkarni, Rishi Kapoor, Waheeda Rahman, Abhishek Bachhan and Pavan Malhotra. Weaving a story around the Delhi's "Monkey Man" incident of 2001 is a an innovative idea. Set in the Old Delhi area of Chandni Chowk, this movie doesn't impress inspite of a few good moments scattered evenly through out its length. The movie drags in its second half with commonly seen ignorable stuff.
The story is of a 'Born in US' Roshan (Abhishek Bachhan) who comes to India with his grandmother (Waheeda Rahman) and starts living in the Chandni Chowk area of Delhi. He sees that people there live in harmony until a series of "Monkey Man" attacks creates a rift between Hindus and Muslims. How the trouble between the communities is solved is what the movie is about. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, there is a love story between Roshan and Bittu (Sonam Kapoor) whose only ambition is to get selected in Indian Idol whereas her father Om Puri is desperate to get her married to someone. More details about this forgettable story will only waste my time. So, chuck it.
Apart from a few jokes (4-5 , don't expect too many) and a few good dialogues, this movie is a dud. Sonam Kapoor will have to wait have for something else to change her fortune. But, to be honest she is the only one who is watchable in this movie. Her Indianized looks inspired many whistles and screams in Anand 70mm, Secunderabad. Sonam Kapoor's aunt - just found out her name is Aditi Rao - she is cute too.
A good concept wasted. Poor script, poorer screenplay and worse editing.
Dilli 6, like the pigeon will fly away from the theatres soon phurr phurr phurrr....
