The scenes where the two ladies set up Rishi Kapoor's Raj Mathur on the iPhone with his son Kabir are done with a sense of reined-in fun.īut then it all comes undone. A tech-savvy aunt and her daughter-in-law (played with wonderful charm by Nirmal Rishi and Sheeba Chaddha) suggests that the father chat on Facebook with his son.ĪLSO READ: I was literally asked to leave town for various reasons, says Leena Yadav Here, Leena Yadav who gave us the brilliant "Parched" two years ago is not as comfortable dealing with an estranged father-son's attempts to iron out their differences as a gaggle of friends and distant relatives in Old Delhi eggs them on. Chopra's "Chandni Chowk" to Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's "Delhi 6" to Kabir Khan's "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" have pitched their tale's tent in the crowded 'galis' of Chandni Chowk where the sun sets and the jalebis never stops sizzling in the streetside 'kadhaai' (wok). What is it about Old Delhi that drives filmmakers crazy with yearning and nostalgia? So many memorable and not-so-memorable films, from B.R. The closing song of this sensible but scattered film goes, "Mujhe dosti karne ka shauq hai, mera dil chandni Chowk hai".
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