delhi belly : funny shit

“Shit happens” as the appealing tagline reads is aptly inscribed, the former word happens to certainly form a part of the narration in “Delhi belly” which could spurt of a string of films in the same genre thus making it a cult. Tashi(Imran) , nitin(kunal) and arun(vir das) are regular youngsters in a city. They forget to fill water early in the morning forgetting to keep the bucket below the tap thus depriving them of minimal sanitation. Tashi s girlfriend fallaciously lands up in an underworld racket when she takes the delivery of a box from a Russian which has been smuggled for a local gangster (vijay raaz) while she forgets to deliver the box having to prepare for her ongoing engagement with tashi. She handles over the reponsblity of the delivery to tashi who is a sting journalist. Tashi gets on a brawl with her colleagues ex boy friend and hence hands over the box to nitin . The total mishandling of the box lands it up in a doctor s clinic while what reaches the goon is an obnoxious substance what follows is some utterly never before seen sequences which perfectly “brings the house down”. nitin s troubled stomach plays the narrator in this plot and he farts, burps and uses orange juice to clean his butt having to stay in a rented house without water and a fragile ceiling. Arun having been dumped by his girlfriend is devastated and tonsures his head and to add to their woes the local gangster chases them for the original box which was to be delivered to him.
Delhi belly is not your run of the mill situational comedy created using props and mindlessly executed gags. It is an intelligent film with some moments which will not have you thinking but at the same time does nt ask you to keep your minds at home. So what works in favour of this sex comedy? Is it the extensive expletives?, the incongruous moments? the finely executed storyline? or the performances?, to put it up the expletives do at times sound a little forced having to throw it out at avoidable instants . the ncongruous moments, they r all over the place yet the movie is so well paced that they never look fabricated to make the story funny , it all forms a part of the narration and carry everything in symphony. The screenplay s so smart and wacky that you end up completely satiated with some innovative and “ bringing the house down” moments. There is no place for melodrama, nor for thoughtless poignancy in the characters because they are so well stitched and carved for the plot . the performace go well with the story and every actor fits the bill ,kunal roy kapur stands out as the fatso with a sloppy stomach while vijay raaz is a delight to watch . Imran pulls off his best act yet and vir das is at his comical best as for the ladies they add to the overflowing talent in this performance brewing flck. Go catch up with it because you could be witnessing the set of a new era the hindi film industry and of course for the sheer fun of “DK bose” and “shit happens”.
Rating : 3 ½ stars