Sanon and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari work out the rambunctiousness of the character so perfectly that you miss her when she isn't around.īitti has that tomboyish burp-after-beer swagger, but those patterns only gadroon her lady-like aspects - like how she pokes her finger on someone's arm when she lapses into pleading. It's a marvel that she looks like the Bitti Mishra-types, complete with her frizzy hair, dry lips, and partly worn-out sweaters. Thankfully, the movie isn't out to worship her but to celebrate her spirit, and Sanon, with her face forever eyeing a discovery and rejoicing when she gets to one, gives a knockout performance.

In the audience I watched the movie with, a Mexican wave of laughter often swelled up, with people explaining to those seated beside them what the last line or jabberwocky was, or what it meant, and as they explained it, another gem sprouted up in the interim, and was missed.īareilly Ki Barfi's streetwise attitude fits perfectly with its protagonist Bitti Mishra, who's too much in love with the supreme juices of life to pause and dwell over life.Īn electricity board employee who walks into offices with her scooter helmet on, Kriti Sanon's character isn't pitched at the height of a rebel, but a hedonist - she loves her addictions and they have become a part of her everyday routine. The jokes, a freakish marriage of insta-Hindi- shaayaris and romantic idealism, come out of left-field and they are over before you can even register them completely.

The characters are all always saying something wrong or inappropriate, and their double-takes and recoiling in disbelief are what give the film its crazy tone. The script has an energy that seems to have sent all the actors over the rainbow and out they slide from the other end, with their characters' daze firmly fixed inside them.Īshwiny Iyer Tiwari is a Lady Preston Sturges, and this film's breathless comic atmosphere, where everyone has something to say, coupled with its combustible energy, suggest the best of Sturges' screwball comedies.Īs in a Preston Sturges movie, Bareilly Ki Barfi hardly breaks away from its wisecracks to offer you moralistic asides or stop to give itself heavyweight airs. That shot is so inspired and yet it rushes past you at such a precise clip that it becomes giddily beautiful.

At one point, Kriti Sanon's Bitti Mishra expresses confidence that her fan letter would receive a reply, and as she says Aayega, you can see her doing a little puppet dance.

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