Just watched "Bareilly Ki Barfi"
10/10 - I'm easily impressed, I know. Maybe any movie that can make me cry is a ten for me, because, I like feeling emotions outside the monotony of my life.
The watching experience was a bit imperfect because I completed the movie over a span of a week, on the TV, with low volume, with mummy while having food and the english subtitles were on the whole itme. But it's alright, I guess, maybe I'm just channeling my inner Bitti, how she watches English films without the full or 'perfect' experience.
They can never make me hate Rajkumar Rao or convince me that he is an actor who only does one type of role. He was so good as Vidrohi, he made me feel bad for a man. And Ayushman Khurrana can really express love with his eyes, man. I am not saying I wish for a lover but god would I be satiated with life if someone looks at me with those eyes.
I was annoyed that I guessed the ending, but I also gaslit myself into not believing my guess and enjoying the movie as it goes. Kriti Sanon is truly a beautiful woman and a great actress. The date where the two leads interacted while having an ice cream without using words... crazy how I'm romanticising social abilities.
For a minute, I could settle with accepting that I'd never find a lover like Chirag, but man it hurts to know I'll also never have a father like Bitti's. The father, played by Pankaj Tripathi, was so calm at every point no matter what, listened to his daughter speak, actually expressed his love for her. Plus I was constantly annoyed with Chirag and his best friend, this is why men need female friends to knock some sense into them and advise them right.
In the end, a girl can always dream to be someone's,
"Tumse pyaar karna bohot ae mushkil hai,
Par tumse pyaar na karna, usse bhi zyada mushkil."