Delhi Belly – fartastic caper that is predictable but amuses

The only thing desi about Delhi Belly is the fixation on shit and farts, and the copious use of the BC and MC expletives. The rest is a highly predictable caper centering on the mistaken identities between a Babushka doll containing smuggled diamonds and a package with a stool sample. Smuggled goods involve couriers, dons, goons, and lots of guns and the laugh are provided by the hapless trio of Tashi (Imraan Khan), Nitin (Kunal Roy Kapoor) and Arup (Vir Das) who bobble the delivery of the goods. The women in the film are mostly props – be it Tashi’s girlfriend (Shenaz Treasury) who is the eternal ditz or the journalist (the obviously imported Poorna Jagannath), or the various women who seem to be serving food whenever we encounter them.



The street food is laced with goodies from the vendors nose and privates in front of Nitin’s eyes, perhaps that is why it makes its effect known immediately after consumption. This reviewer had just had dinner and the sight was enough to cause uneasy rumblings in the tummy. Thereafter the craps and farts gag is endlessly milked until the shock value wears off and one just waits for one more sound of the toilet flushing.

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