The way Ranbir Kapoor doffs his cap so many times reminds one of Stan Laurel (of Laurel and Hardy movies fame) and of Charlie Chaplin's movies. Also his (Ranbir's) hand and face gestures are the very same what Laurel and Chaplin did and danced decades ago. This blatant copying does not deserve accolades from critics, public, press - as the Director and Script Writer of any movie must always find something new and original (unless it's a biopic) if they want their film to be cherished and remembered always. Anurag Basu and Pritam (music too inspired by the 2001 French movie "Amelie") are you listening? DON'T COPY AND TAKE CREDIT FOR WHAT ARE NOT "YOUR" IDEAS. The mannerisms by Ranbir and some other actors in the movie "Barfi" may be new to them as they are young, so they can fool today's youngsters but they can't fool the senior citizens and older generation still living today who have seen Chaplin and Laurel/Hardy in their younger days!
yesterday i saw the movie. performance of all were quite impressive. story telling was good. script is also good. actually there is nothing new in the story. it is how intelligently the script is written by anurag. he played it very tricky. actually he is fooling the viewer because he never gave a chance for viewer to think about the story line even though the story thread same old story. he took an old story and put the lead people as disabled. then included some treatment in story telling that makes viewer not to think whether its old story. some people will not like slow narration like most of the korean movies. anurag did it korean movie style. other than the story line all were good. basu played it in a very tricky way. Eventhough the movie is good but not classic . we can say brilliant in parts not as some people commenting over here. an normal viewer may feel its brilliant bcos they might not watched any kind of high dramas like iranian or korean movies
Re: story thread is old.
by seagull on Sep 23, 2012 02:35 PM
Its copied from a Japanese movie, replaced a young boy with a girl which is the usual bollywood formula.
autistic people do not least do or beleive many things which priyanka portrayed,she was portraying autism in THEORY autistic people are in real life like the character portrayed by SRK, it might look a very subtle or no difference to many ,but on the platform of an autistic portrayal,it is HUGE i still beleive in the world of acting SRK and PC have still avery long way to share the same platform,her better bet is doing role of a glamarous character.
Re: AUTISTIC CHARACTER PORTRAYAL IN MOVIES
by Story editor on Sep 20, 2012 11:23 AM
I would see Barfi tomorrow so cannot comment on Priyanka, but SRK was far far away from being able to perform Autistic.
Autistic people lack social skills, they lack emotions, so SRK's effort to go to meet Obama would not have been done by someone who is autistic. Also he would not have gone back to help that lady. SRK at best looked like a caricature! The best performance was Dustin Hoffman...
RK & PC has done awesome job. anurag basu has tried something new in the film good. i liked it. like this film has never been made b'fore. i knoe indian ppl. wont like this. they only like that monkey SRK film all time jumping only. this shows that dumb & deaf ppl can also do something. good done anurag RK & PC all the best
