Words fall short to describe what
this film expresses. Words carry no value when the heart is empty. If
your mind is full, your eyes say it all… When you fall in love you just fall in
love. You don’t measure variants. The movie has certain beautiful dialogues
which I feel compelled to share. If the love you share and receive is honest,
you feel complete inside, even if you are considered a socially incomplete
person. And the love that remains is the one that happens, not the one planned
after quantifying and calculating it. You fall in love not to lead a
comfortable luxurious life, but to be in love.
The simplicity in the characters
send shivers to your heart, how will they survive in this world? They are too
delicate and people don’t have the heart and patience to understand their mute
words. Murphy or more commonly Barfi is a light hearted fellow who falls in
love but reality hits him hard that the world has its own set standards of who
can fall in love with whom. The real world constantly makes him feel small,
always running around to make ends meet despite of his little ‘Robin Hood’
generous acts. Then enters a pretty fragile girl called Jhilmil, who is trapped
in her own beautiful world, the world where she enjoys the miracles of nature, magic
and music. Hers is a tragic story, on the outside. Inside she has a beautiful world
and a family she chose herself by hand picking people around her. Destiny makes
the two meet again and again and the time bonds them together. A very unusual
couple, incomplete separately but complete together. The story revolves around
the quest of their love, one girl who wants to give up everything to lead an incomplete yet beautiful life and the greedy people who have
everything yet it never suffices.
I shouldn’t write a lot since I
am sure there is still a lot left for me to understand. But yes, Barfi was sweet
in just the right amount!
