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Dil Bechara - Beautifully written and gut-wrenchingly conceived. The minute touches of narrative and characters contribute very well to the big picture that you might end up sobbing.

Before you proceed to read the review, here’s a small point which we want our readers to get notified – This review is only being given by watching Dil Bechara as a movie. Nothing more or nothing less. We feel sorry for Sushanth Singh Rajput’s demise, but the pretext of this shouldn’t influence the opinion. It was very difficult for us too in rendering ourselves to that, but we tried. May his soul rest in peace.

Dil Bechara is a beautifully written and gut-wrenchingly conceived bittersweet romantic drama. There is no doubt in that. The minute touches of narrative and characters contribute very well to the big picture that you might end up sobbing – Just like I was. Sushanth’s adorable charisma and Sanghi’s innocence melt up your heart all the way. There is a trigger happy nature in the movie which deliberately intensifies it’s story-telling so that you should fall for its empathy.

The icing of the cake is the technicalities. Especially, A.R.Rahman’s music which sways from being casual and buzzword friendly ( like the title song) to emotional and touching. The orchestrations are simple, unique and easily seep into your ears. Kudos to his music which perfectly complimented the theme rather than overpowering it (this would have had its share of problem added which will be discussed further). The cinematography by Satyajit Pandey and editing by Deepa Bhatia are apt and clean. Satyajit Pandey’s visuals take us very close to their worlds and also make us look wide at the magnanimity of unavoidable ill-fate they are destined to.

                                          

The only slight issues the movie had was it felt, at times, oozingly melodramatic and also exhausting that one cannot take this melancholy anymore. The narration and dialogues were cheeky and too much tipping of off the “bollywoodity” (if that’s a word) – especially in its narration. But, at least that keeps the proceedings light, which was very essential when the protagonists and almost all the character’s are so hapless that you cannot help but sympathize and cry for them ( it’s not just feel for them). This made the movie-watching experience tiring for the endless struggle (and it’s not bad in any way) that each one has to face.

Take, for example, a movie like Anbe Sivam or Oopiri.  You have a protagonist who is physically unfortunate [ Nallasivam or Vikramaditya resp.] and also another physically perfect protagonist but mentally and socially disturbed [Anbarasu or Seenu resp.] like us. We start to connect to these normal characters and then peek into the life of their companion. We smoothly transit our thinking and even feel more (may not cry – that’s the compromise). This way of bonding both amidst the characters and also between us and the movie is more clear, multiplied and strong. In Dil Bechara, this leeway becomes sweetly and achingly painful because there are no normal protagonists here. Both Manny and Kizie are not blessed souls and it’s their companionship and love that we see all the way. We do have our characters like the kith and kin of these two, but of course, they hardly have a scope.

Dil Bechara is not the film which you see with popcorn in hand, but rather some wipes and a series of easygoing or comedy flicks to watch next. And this is not a negative point. It’s an achievement for the moving and tetchy film made.