Delhi-6

Released Feb 20, 2009

2h 21m

Comedy

Drama

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36%

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11 Reviews

42%

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25,000+ Ratings

American-born Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) agrees to return with his grandmother Annapurna (Waheeda Rehman), to the walled-off area of Delhi, India, where she grew up. Attracted to neighbor Bittu (Sonam Kapoor) and enchanted by the neighborhood's strong sense of tradition, Roshan gradually learns about Old Delhi's less attractive aspects, including caste discrimination and widespread corruption. Meanwhile, rumors of a mysterious, havoc-wreaking black monkey put the city on edge.

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Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

[Rakeysh Omprakash] Mehra is so focused on getting the setting right that he forgets to move his movie along. It's one thing to translate the slow, old-world quality of the place; it's quite another for your story to have to struggle to come up for air.

Apr 26, 2019

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Anil Sinanan

Time Out

Mehra's follow-up to his Bafta-nominated Rang de Basanti is another gritty slice of political Bollywood cinema.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 14, 2016

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Michael Ordoña

Los Angeles Times

Anchored by a fascinating score from Oscar winner A.R. Rahman, naturalistic performances and a wide cinematic palette, Delhi-6 is a fair introduction to Indian cinema for outsiders -- who will have no clue at times why the audience is laughing.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 27, 2009

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Bollywood masala pictures are a bit messy by definition, but this film is simply a disorganized muddle

Rated: 2/4

Mar 8, 2009

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Maitland McDonagh

Miss FlickChick

Though admirably serious and ambitious, this fish-out-of-water comedy-drama ... is a jumbled collection of moments that range from the touching to the tedious.

Mar 4, 2009

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Frank Lovece

Film Journal International

An Indian drama with music, rather than a typical Bollywood musical, this ambitious story of a first-generation Indian-American discovering his roots in Delhi loses focus amid plots about patronizing Yanks, Muslim/Hindu relations and a media-fed legend of

Feb 20, 2009

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Although unbalanced at times, Delhi-6 offers a good mix of old-school romanticism and socio-political commentary, woven together with a stream-of-consciousness style of writing.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

Quite slow and dull drama with a simmering relationship story. Only its final telling scene breathes some life into proceedings.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

A big credit goes to director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, for giving us such a great view of Delhi in the movie. The background score by A.R Rahaman is just brilliant. The casting could be better.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Audience Member

Excellent movie. Visually mesmerizing. The soundtrack is also very....addicting. Don't trust those reviews.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Takes some time to take shape, with a lump of several consecutive songs in the middle, but once concluded, clearly a good movie that holds up a 'mirror' message : Look within yourself, He isn't far from you..the path to goodness is in you. And also the Kala Bandar (Black Monkey) imagery representing the unkindness in us. (Instead of killing the monkey, we kill each other). Spot-on use of simple effects- the Hanuman play's characters popping up in surreal fashion later, the bells, pigeons, colours, music, etc..Heartwarming and effective! And of course, a very well-cast Abhishek in the lead role :)

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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user c

Painful. The songs are superlative, and the first half of the film actually seems like it's building up to something awesome. And then, the second half happens -- or rather, fails to happen. Pointless, dissatisfying, and confused. A bad memory

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Roshan Mehra

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Bittu Sharma

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Waheeda Rehman

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Synopsis

American-born Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) agrees to return with his grandmother Annapurna (Waheeda Rehman), to the walled-off area of Delhi, India, where she grew up. Attracted to neighbor Bittu (Sonam Kapoor) and enchanted by the neighborhood's strong sense of tradition, Roshan gradually learns about Old Delhi's less attractive aspects, including caste discrimination and widespread corruption. Meanwhile, rumors of a mysterious, havoc-wreaking black monkey put the city on edge.

Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Distributor: UTV Motion Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Hindi
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 20, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 1, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $879.9K
Runtime: 2h 21m

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