Barfi - A wasted script

Helo there,

Now that I have started writing movie reviews,  I might as well continue writing short reviews then and there. For now, I'm picking up "Barfi".

I was one of those movie fans / critics who felt happy to see a "different" and "innovative" movie in Bollywood. Some say that a few scenes of Barfi were inspired from "Notebook" etc., But I hadn't watched any of those.

The script of the movie is wonderful, well backed by it's lead actors. I really liked the way the entire story was narrated as a flashback, and that a key part of the movie was held as suspense throughout the second half. And the chaplin'esque style for the lead actor also filled in the humor bucket.

But the problem with the movie was it's screenplay and background music. As you know, it's a story of a "deaf & dum" guy, who is also the lead actor in the movie. So, the entire story revolves around him, and he is present in most of the scenes. That means, in most of the scenes, there is no dialogue - just face expressions.

Without dialogues, any movie would look slow and dull.  Barfi was no different. The movie actually has a very good pace, but the background music was not good enough to highlight it. The BGM is more like the "salt" that we use while cooking. It's very interesting to note how the salt that we add in the end in the curries, brings out the different flavours and spices that we use.

Because of this one defect, the movie was termed as "slow-paced", "dull", "boring-at-times" etc.,

But nonetheless, this is a very good movie, and this should motivate more and more producers to invest on movies with such varied storyline.