By Filmfare / Times of India / Indiatimes, February 20, 2009 - 09:14 IST
4 of 12 people found this review helpful The movie makes an interesting start as it introduces multiple characters and gets into multi-track storytelling. But soon the characters and the tracks start jumbling up, giving way for continuity lapses in the multi-dimensional narrative...
By Rediff, February 20, 2009 - 09:31 IST
6 of 11 people found this review helpful The climax, which also involves the black monkey, has been imaginatively devised but nevertheless, it is a bit labored. However, it also serves as a good moral ending and could send viewers home in a happy mood.
By Buzz18, February 20, 2009 - 09:36 IST
5 of 13 people found this review helpful What's worse is the way the film is picturised. Many of the sequences are shot against a croma background and digitally put together. Others are simply shot in a studio...
By Planet Bollywood, February 21, 2009 - 08:26 IST
6 of 9 people found this review helpful The film stresses on the fact that one should look within himself to discover his morality and frailty and make an attempt to get rid of any vices from the inner-self.
By Hindustan Times, February 21, 2009 - 08:30 IST
1 of 3 people found this review helpful In the beginning, you want to love this film. As Binod Pradhan's magical camera sweeps over the terraces of the walled city, winds through its gallis and homes and explodes in a riot of colour and drama in the Ramleela shows, Rakeysh Mehra weaves all the threads that go into the tapestry of Delhi 6 with a seamless beauty.
By Realbollywood, February 21, 2009 - 08:31 IST
1 of 3 people found this review helpful The first half, though appearing a little lengthy focuses on reverse-culture-shock jokes, lavishly reproduced Ram Leela, a visit to the Taj Mahal, and a cow giving birth in the street. It is in the second half that things take a more serious turn.
By Filmfare / Times of India / Indiatimes, February 21, 2009 - 08:32 IST
The shoddy climax, replete with a scene from heaven, and the sluggish pace of the film do detract from the delicious flavour of Delhi 6, which, all said and done, is a delectable paapdi-chaat of big, bustling, bulging India.
By Now Running, February 21, 2009 - 08:34 IST
1 of 5 people found this review helpful In an impatient age, Delhi 6 takes its time to warm up to its audience. Lacking any significant plot, we are treated to assorted vignettes of life in and around the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, and when the real story does kick in, it actually proves to be quite a (monkey) menace. Under every man lies a bandar, Darwin Mehra Saab repeatedly insists, even as the film runs asunder.
By Ibnlive, February 21, 2009 - 08:38 IST
1 of 3 people found this review helpful That director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra feels genuine affection for his characters is evident in every scene of Delhi 6. He knows them well, he's familiar with their lives, and he embraces their quirks and their contradictions. Delhi 6, is indeed a film about its characters.
By Indya, February 21, 2009 - 08:41 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful This film would have sounded much better on paper then it does on screen.
By Sify, February 21, 2009 - 08:42 IST
1 of 3 people found this review helpful Roshan's character is immediately likeable, though there is hardly any complexity and we are never questioning what to make of him. Abhishek Bachchan is utterly believable , though the same can't be said about his spotty accent.
By Full Hyderabad, February 21, 2009 - 08:46 IST
3 of 5 people found this review helpful Very satirical and all, but it is this dramatic mood-swing in the movie that destroys the finesse.
By Businessofcinema, February 21, 2009 - 08:50 IST
3 of 4 people found this review helpful After watching a film, you walk out of the cinema hall having a rather clear picture or none at all of what the film was about. Delhi 6 steals that very right from you, walking out you can't exactly pin point what the film was about in the first hour and what it was in the next.
By Indicine, February 21, 2009 - 08:51 IST
2 of 3 people found this review helpful The pace of the film is too slow. The first hour is a complete drag, it picks up slightly post interval but the last 20 - 30 mins is a let down.
By DNA India, February 21, 2009 - 08:54 IST
2 of 5 people found this review helpful In one of the funniest sequences of the film, not intentional of course, Roshan goes to heaven for a very brief while, has a chat with his grandfather (Mr Bachchan himself) and returns back from the dead! They say Delhi-6 had two different endings - one happy, one sad and they chose to retain the happy one. The sad ending would have made some sense at least.
By Now Running, February 21, 2009 - 08:55 IST
What Delhi 6 lacks is a crisp plotline. The characterization is poor and nothing that the character does is clear. In fact no situation or anything that happens has a good reason and nothing evokes any kind of emotion.
