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Barfi!
A warm, whimsical romance with real visual charm, Barfi! blends physical comedy, melancholy, and tenderness into a distinctly cinematic love story.… Read more
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A warm, whimsical romance with real visual charm, Barfi! blends physical comedy, melancholy, and tenderness into a distinctly cinematic love story.… Read more
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Thu · 2h 31m
Director: Anurag Basu
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Ileana D'Cruz
The heartwarming tale of Barfi, a charming deaf-mute young man from 1970s Darjeeling, and two unalike women who can't help but fall for him.
Anurag Basu
Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Ileana D'Cruz
A warm, whimsical romance with real visual charm, Barfi! blends physical comedy, melancholy, and tenderness into a distinctly cinematic love story. Its nonverbal lead performance and nostalgic Darjeeling setting give it a playful, bittersweet appeal that stands out even when the plotting gets melodramatic.
Barfi! is a romantic comedy that understands how to be gentle without becoming bland. It uses silence, gesture, and movement as part of its emotional language, and that gives the film a buoyant, old-school charm. The Darjeeling setting adds misty, storybook atmosphere, while the film’s comic timing keeps it from sinking into pure melancholy.
Ranbir Kapoor’s performance is the engine here: playful, vulnerable, and physically precise. Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Ileana D'Cruz bring very different energies to the love triangle, and the film is strongest when it lets those contrasts play out through mood and behavior rather than explanation. It can be uneven, and it occasionally reaches for sentiment a little too hard, but the sincerity is hard to resist.
What lingers is the feeling of a movie that wants romance to be tactile, musical, and a little mischievous. It’s not subtle in the modern indie sense, but it is unusually tender and visually confident. If you’re open to a lush, emotionally direct film that mixes comedy with ache, it’s an easy recommendation.
Corey Pierce (5★) · 809 likes
I don't know about where you live, but in Toronto there are several theaters that always have one or more current release Bollywood films. I saw this poster months ago and thought it was ridiculous enough that "We could watch Barfi?" became an in-joke. And through all this I had never seen a proper Indian film, ever. These movies are always playing here, yet none of the English papers review them, nor do my peers in Toronto ever see them.… more
0PAIN0 (3.5★) · 451 likes
ngl man i like ranbir kapoor way more when he doesnt open his mouth 😶
abishey (5★) · 200 likes
I wanna live in Darjeeling so bad
Michael James (4.5★) · 199 likes
Barfi soulfully proves you don’t need words to write a love story. As warm n bittersweet like a gratifying Darjeeling tea.. ☕️ The fairy tale styled poignant romantic comedy has its set of niggles, however the unadulterated passionate filmmaking is as charmingly playful and as full of heart you can get, that it genuinely wins you over. Love, love and nothing but love. Along with the extraordinary audio visual treatment and soul stirring performances from Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, the whimsical heartfelt drama provides one of a kind cinematic experience that is definitely not to be missed.
Arjun Rajput (5★) · 184 likes
can i come over and build a life with you based on laughter and safety
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