2009 · drama · social
Delhi-6
Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra2h 21m2009
Roshan, an NRI, arrives in Old Delhi with his ailing grandmother and starts to rediscover himself before getting caught in a religious dispute that shakes the once peaceful neighborhood.
Our read: Delhi-6 (2009) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · social entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / social, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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“You want Old Delhi color, Rahman music, and communal tension through an NRI's eyes.”
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