Barfi!!!!!!! Oscar Nominated Movie

Romantic Comedy Movie

Barfi! is a 2012 Indian romantic comedy film written and directed by Anurag Basu. It tells the story of "Barfi", a mute and deaf boy in Darjeeling, West Bengal and his relation with two girls, one of whom is autistic. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor as Barfi, Priyanka Chopra as Jhilmil Chaterji and Ileana D'Cruz as Sengupta in lead roles. Ranbir Kapoor plays the role of a deaf-mute boy. Priyanka Chopra will play the role of girl with autism. In addition, Ileana D'Cruz will play the role of the narrator. The film was released on 14 September 2012 across 1300 screens in India. Basu later announced that he planned an English language version of the film. The film was praised for showing positive portrayal of the differently abled in films.The film will be sent as India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film nomination for the 85th Academy Awards in February 2013.

1972

Murphy "Barfi" Johnson (Ranbir Kapoor) was born deaf-mute and lost his mother as a baby, his father raised him alone, working as a chauffeur in Darjeeling. The charming Barfi meets Shruti Ghosh (Ileana D'Cruz) who has just arrived in the city and is engaged to be married in three month's time and is immediately smitten. He wins her heart but Shruti is dissuaded from pursuing him by her mother. Shruti is married and moves to Kolkata. Meanwhile, Barfi's father takes ill and he must raise the money for his treatment. He attempts to kidnap his childhood friend, Jhilmil Chatterjee (Priyanka Chopra), the autistic grand-daughter of a wealthy man who passed away leaving all his money to a trust in her name, with her parents on salary; in order to hold her for ransom, however he finds her already kidnapped. Sneaking aboard a car he spots her in, Barfi drives Jhilmil away from the real ransom delivery and hides her in his apartment with the police in pursuit of them. Barfi collects the ransom but finds that his father has passed away as he makes the payment. Dejected, he tries to leave Jhilmil at the village of her caretaker but she refuses to leave him and they soon move to Kolkata,West Bengal.

1978

Barfi happens to meet Shruti again. She is unhappy with her marriage and they rekindle their friendship much to the chagrin of the lovestruck Jhilmil who then runs away from the city. Shruti files a missing persons report for Jhilmil. The Darjeeling police learn about the report and resume their pursuit of Barfi and arrest him. As he is interrogated another ransom demand for Jhilmil is made and she is apparently killed in the process of the exchange though her body is never found. In order to wrap up the case, the police attempt to frame Barfi for the murder. The investigating officer (Saurabh Shukla) who had been pursing Barfi all these years takes pity on him and asks Shruti to take him away, offering him a second chance at life, to which she agrees hoping to be with her true love. Barfi is deeply affected by Jhilmil's loss and finds living with Shruti unfulfilling. He deduces the location of the home where Jhilmil had spent her childhood and takes Shruti to go look for her. It is revealed that Jhilmil is alive, both kidnappings having been fabricated as a means for her father to embezzle money from the trust fund in her name, though the second time they fake her death so that she may return to her special care home, away from the clutches of her alcoholic mother. Barfi is re-united with Jhilmil and they marry while Shruti spends the rest of her days alone, regretting having lost her opportunity to be with Barfi when she could have.

Presently

Barfi is close to death in a hospital. The film closes with Jhilmil lying with Barfi in his hospital bed as Shruti re-iterates in the narration her childhood wish of living her life with her true love and passing away together.

SoundTrack:-

The music and background score of the film is composed by Pritam. The soundtrack album has 6 songs. A song named Ala Barfi! sung by Mohit Chauhan was released as a single track on 7th August 2012. Main kya karoon, a romantic number was released on 11th August 2012 which features Ileana D'Cruz & Ranbir Kapoor. Priyanka Chopra was supposed to sing a track for the film but her contract with Universal Music prevents her from taking the offer. There is also one more song titled "Fatafati" which will not be used in the final film, but was released on YouTube on September 10, 2012 as behind-the-scenes footage. It is merely a promotional track, sung by Pritam and Nakkash Aziz. Some additional vocals are sung by Ranbir Kapoor himself. "Fatafati" also has some Bengali lyrics, penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya.