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Starring:
Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Rishi
Kapoor, Om Puri, Prem Chopra, Pawan Malhotra, Atul
Kulkarni, Supriya Pathak, Tanvi Azmi, Divya Dutta
Director - Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) travels from USA to India
with his ailing grandmother (Waheeda Rehman). Little
does he know that this quick trip will turn into the
longest journey of his life...
A journey within!
Roshan's grandmother wants to retire and spend the last
leg of her life back home; dissolving into the soil she
was born in. In America, having lead a very western
lifestyle Roshan is not familiar with the sites and
smells, the food and culture, the religion and beliefs,
this huge melting pot that India is.
Amidst all this he meets the beautiful Bittu, who is
looking for identity and expression and wants to break
free from the typical Indian social structure, to whom
Roshan is destine to lose his heart.
The story is told against the backdrop of the ancient
walled city of Delhi who is a character in herself. A
city that represents the chaos of Indian people, their
religion and their beliefs. The pin code of this old
city is 110006. With pride and love they call it
Delhi-6.
Delhi-6 is a journey... a journey within. We are all
living in difficult times. Delhi-6 urges us to look
within and if there is an answer then it is love,
because that's the law of nature and its creation.
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Aniz Filmvala
Crew:
Director - Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Producer - Ronnie Screwvala, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Creative Producer - P. S. Bharathi
Music - A. R. Rahman
Director of Photography - Binod Pradhan
Lyrics & Dialogue - Prasoon Joshi
Executive Producer - Smitha Baliga
Screenplay - Prasoon Joshi, Kamlesh Pandey, Rakeysh
Omprakash Mehra
Story - Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Kamlesh Pandey, Prasoon
Joshi
Editor - P S Bharathi
Production Design - Samir Chanda
Action - Allan Amin
Sound Design - Nakul Kamte
Choreographers - Vaibhavi Merchant, Saroj Khan
Costume Designers - Arjun Bhasin, Anamika Khanna
Chartered Accountant - Bimal Parekh
Co-producers - P S Bharathi, Zarina Mehta, Devan Khote,
Siddharth Roy Kapur
Make Up - Vikram Gaekwad
Hair - Avan Contractor Sariena
Line Producer - Urfi Kazmi
First Assistant Director - Rebecca Strickland, Sandeep
Modi, Neha Kaul
Production Controller - Syed Abul Ehsan
Production Coordinator - Viraj Gawas
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He thought that Dadi left her family and loved ones back
in America only to realize that how wrong he was. The
warmth and affection of the neighborhood embraces him
with open arms.
Initially greeted by a mad
rush of his dadi’s neighbors, Roshan is amazed at the pomp
and the warmth of the people around his dadi’s old home in
Delhi. There are families of the feuding brothers staying
divided in the same property, the halwai shop owner and
the others. He accompanies his grandma to the Ramleela
functions, hangs around at the sweet shop, goes for jogs
and is beginning to get used to the atmosphere of Delhi.
Among the neighbors, there is this girl Bittu (Sonam
Kapoor) who is a typical contemporary Delhi girl. Simple
on the surface, within she is yearning to do something in
her otherwise lackluster life where one fine day she would
be married to a boy of her parents choice. At home she is
in salwars, but once out of her area, she puts on a modern
attire, aspiring to be the next Indian Idol.
There is also a parallel topic
of the ‘Kala Bandar’ (Black Monkey) which is in the news
media is all abuzz with tales of a fearsome terror. This
miscreant (never identified ) supposedly attacks people,
steals various articles and is expected to be a cause of
death of a few innocent people. None of these proved, yet
the buzz of Kala Bandar is even used by some for their
advantage.
The streets of Delhi look as
pleasant due to the camera skills of Binod Pradhan in
Delhi-6. The legend of Indian Music, A.R. Rehman has
produced lovely songs - ‘Masakalli – matakali’ number and
the title song are pleasing to hear. Many heartwarming and
hilarious scenes in the film which are enacted brilliantly
even by the supporting cast like Divya Dutta as Jalebi,
the untouchable, Atul Kulkarni as Gobar, Deepak Dobriyal
as Mamdu, and the cop played by Vijay Raaz.
Rishi Kapoor is very natural, Waheeda Rahman is the
likeable old dadi. Sonam Kapoor who is just in her second
film has accomplished more than expected and it is her
charms and Abhishek Bachchan’s talented enactment of the
videshi born desi guy. This is the real Bollywood product
which precisely depicts the actual lifestyle of the
Indians in this old part of Delhi.
Cast:
Waheeda Rehman - Dadi
Abhishek Bachchan - Roshan
Sonam Kapoor - Bittu
Om Puri - Madan Gopal
Rishi Kapoor - Ali
Prem Chopra - Lala Bhairam
Pawan Malhotra - Jai Gopal
Atul Kulkarni - Gobar
Supriya Pathak - Vimla
Tanvi Azmi - Fatima
Divya Dutta - Jalebi
Vijay Raaz - Inspector Ranvijay
Deepak Dobriyal - Mamdu
K K Raina - Haji Suleman
Akhilendra Mishra - Baba Bandarmaar
Sheeba Chaddha - Rajjo
Cyrus Shahukar - Suresh
Aditi Rao - Rama
Indrajeet Sarkar - Rajan Mehra
Daya Shankar Pandey - Kumar
Rajat Dholakia - Pagal Fakir
Khaalid Mohammad - Lala Lahorilal
Geeta Agarwal - Maitri Devi
Rajiv Mathur - Ganpat
Geeta Bisht - Shashi
Vinayak - Bobby
Hussan - Bhisham
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