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'Delhi-6'
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BY FRANK LOVECE
Special to Newsday
eparting from the Bollywood
recipe of everything-but-the-
kitchen-sink cinema, "Delhi-6"
instead addresses the cultural confu-
sion of a New York desi (first-gener-
ation Indian-American)
- spending
time in India with his dying grand-
mother. Except for a beguiling musi-
cal sequence set in Times Square, its
several songs play under montages.
Thir-ty-something Roshan (major
Indian star Abhishek Bachchan)
dutifirlly takes his dying dodi (Wa-
heeda Rahman) home to the old,
walled part of Delhi
- a neighbor-
hood known by its postal code as
Delhi-6. Half-Muslir:U half-Hindu
and all American, Roshan can't help
but patronizingly clod his way
through the neighbors' ancient
traditions and less ancient ones,
- himself amid a religious riot.- a
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such as bullying police slapping PLOT A first-generation lndian-Ameri- Fo
people around and taking bribes.
The neighborlinqss subsides after
can discovers his roots and finds love in
Delhi amid Hindu and Muslim tensions.
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a rash of burglaries and mysterious
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unconvincing romance with the n
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lovely Bittu (Sonam Kapoor).
Unvarnished and surprisingly songs, and a Times Square fantasy
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tough on the excesses ofboth reli- sequence, this is a drama of cultural
gions, "Delhi-6," nonetheless, re- identity and not a bright, bouncy Bolly- ;o
mains vague about both America's wood musical. Some insights and authen- o
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appeal and the motherland's pull. ticity, but no "Slumdog Millionaire."