Review of Burfi

Anurag Basu has come up with a brave idea of presenting a love triangle where his principal characters can only use non-verbal communication.This film is not like  Basu’s

any other flick with bustling chart numbers,it is a more serious movie with songs comprehensible only to your soul than to your ears.

The plot is set in the 70s in the misty hills of  Darjeeling where a boy Murphy  is born and   his mother succumbs to labour pain.Murphy,porter of contraries, grows to be a mute and deaf man,unlike the barnd name of  radio.Somehow he pronounces his name as Burfi and later becomes a jolly man who is not impaired of happiness despite being physically impaired.Burfi,Ranvir Kapoor, reminds us of Raj Kapoor and Chaplin’s comedy traits.Romantic drama takes over when Shruti,Ileana,comes to Darjeeling on winter vacation with her mother,Rupa Ganguly.Barfi charms Shruti with his witty and childish acts.Love sparks in them but the problem is that Shruti is already engaged to a rich Sengupta of Calcutta.Barfi convinces Shruti to shed the engagement ring and offers her his natural grass-ring.Depth of Shruti’s mother’s personal experience gauzes the situation and she makes her daughter realize the zameeni hakikat and manges to put her on reason-track than straying to emotional-path.Barfi is hurt…his expressive eyes reveal his helplessness….The movie spins when Barfi needs money for his father’s operation.He tries robbing a bank but to no good.Meanwhile,Jhilmil,Priyanka Chopra, an autistic daughter from a rich local family,is brought home.Jhilmil is a childhood friend of Barfi.Barfi sees an opportunity in Jhilmil to beget money and kidnaps her.But he could not save his father.Now Jhilmil is not ready to leave Barfi but Barfi has to plan something to get rid of her as he is constantly chased by a sub inspector,Saurabh Shukla,for kidnapping Jhilmil.Incidently,love flames in them and they set their course to Calcutta and find a shelter to live.Here comes the case of co-incidence,,,,Mrs. Shruti Sengupta accidently finds Barfi before her and once again her love for Barfi reignites…..but this time Barfi is not alone.He has his better half,Jhilmil,with him.Shruti Sengupta now listens to her heart and abandons her husband in search of her lost love which is not only lost now but is found by a person who can not weigh it on reasoning but can feel it …..Barfi goes to the Halwai who knows how to keep its sweetness!!!!!

Barfi has shown that even Ranvir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra can act with such a seriousness.Ranvir has much to do in the film so he is more visible but that does not mean Priyanka is less important,rather the contrary is true.She seems to have put more efforts for wiggling her fingers and twitching her lips.Ileana also impresses with her perfect Bengali Bodi role.Save the whodunit story of Jhilmil's kidnapping, if you like good movies,this is the one for you….!!!