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.
Acting
Ranbir's silent film-era physical comedy is genuinely masterful
Cinematography
Darjeeling looks like a dream you never want to wake from
Score
Pritam's soundtrack haunts you for weeks
Director
Anurag Basu
Ranbir Kapoor
Murphy Johnson "Barfi"
Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Jhilmil Chatterjee
Ileana D'Cruz
Shruti Ghosh Sengupta
Saurabh Shukla
Sub-Inspector Sudhanshu Dutta
Jisshu Sengupta
Ranjit Sengupta
Ashish Vidhyarthi
Durjoy Chatterjee
Akash Khurana
Jung Bahadur Johnson
Roopa Ganguly
Shruti's mother
Sujata Sehgal
Miss D'Souza
Arun Bali
Jhilmil's Grandfather
Sumona Chakravarti
Shruti's Friend
Haradhan Bandyopadhyay
Daju
Uday Tikekar
Shruti's Father
Shreya Ghoshal
Hemalini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ranbir Kapoor spent months learning sign language and observing deaf-mute communities; he refused a voiceover to preserve the performance's purity.
The film sparked controversy for allegedly borrowing from 'The Notebook', 'Benny & Joon', and 'Cinema Paradiso'—yet it became India's official Oscar entry anyway.
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