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DELHI BELLY

9:15 pm
Saturday, November 12
Castro Theatre

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Director: Abhinay Deo
Country/Year: India, 2011
Running Time: 103 mins
Language: In English and Hindi with English subtitles
Format: 35 mm

Screenwriter Akshat Verma and actress Shenaz Treasury in Person

Sexy, bawdy and riotously smart, this explosive comedy takes Bollywood in a whole new direction, doffing its cap to bad-boy films like Snatch and The Hangover.

Tashi (played by the puppy dog–eyed, teen heartthrob Imran Khan), Arup and Nitin: flatmates, buddies and partners in crime. Tashi is to get married in a month but still doesn’t know if his fiancée is the one. Arup can’t make up his mind who he wants to kill first—his girlfriend who has just dumped him or his stupid, annoying boss whose idea of creativity is sketching a smiling banana. And Nitin is about to discover that eating delicious tandoori chicken off a street vendor is going to give him the worst case of Delhi belly he’s ever known.

This dopey bundle of mates find themselves in a whole lot of trouble when they accidentally mix up a bag containing a stool sample with one full of smuggled diamonds that Tashi’s flight attendant girlfriend has been asked to carry. But the actual sh*t really hits the proverbial fan when the smugglers, led by the particularly nasty Cowboy (played by Vijay Raaz, Monsoon Wedding), set off after them. Expect rickshaw chases, upset stomachs, glitzy dance numbers that pay homage to 80s Bollywood, and a riot of mix-ups and pursuits, with unsuspecting English tourists ducking for cover. -London Indian Film Festival/Hawaii Film Festival

Festivals: London Indian Film Festival; Indian Film Festival, The Hague, Netherlands