Top 10 Movies That Capture The Essence Of Delhi

1. Queen Click to look into! >> Read More...

The movie with its brilliant screenplay has Delhi at its innocent loving best. The polytechnic colleges, the two-wheeler riding lover boys, and of course the sweet shops that sit proudly in the centre of this city’s every neighbourhood; all this along with the typical Delhi style wedding (that doesn’t come about) and then the coffee house heart break, if you’ve lived in Delhi, you probably saw these characters brush past you at some point.

2. Khosla Ka Ghosla

The movie is set in Delhi and captures the real estate underbelly of the capital. The struggle to retrieve rightful ownership of a property taken away by the “common man” is accentuated by the actors incorporating Delhi in their slang, in the way they view life and their ideas of addressing a conflict (hire goons to counter goons!)

3. Band Baaja Baaraat Click to look into! >> Read More...

The movie is set in Delhi and starts with Hansraj College and to give audience the feel of what these characters are going through, we are introduced to the classrooms, the University special buses and the fight with rickshaw walas. But the movie takes off from Delhi University and launches itself into the suburbs of West Delhi and from there to the high-class milieu of South Delhi.

4. Aisha

The light-hearted romantic comedy has Delhi at its snooty best. The extravagant life of the Delhi elite club followed by the love lives they have. The shopping sprees, the special Delhi weddings and the universal right to snub everyone else’s fashion sense are all captured so beautifully in the movie.

5. Vicky Donor Click to look into! >> Read More...

Delhi boy Vicky, who aspires to have a respectable job, falls in love with a Bengali, bank employee. With the by lanes of Amar Colony and the terraces of South extension, the movie captures Delhi at its lazy-flirty best.

6. Rang De Basanti Click to look into! >> Read More...

With a pack of college students fighting against the wrongs done to their friend, the movies packs a punch by adding Delhi University as its backdrop. The dingy lanes of Chandni Chowk, The late night bike rides of India Gate, the University life of hostellers; the movie beautifully blends all of it together to deliver a Delhi-laden narrative.

7. Delhi-6 Click to look into! >> Read More...

Talking about the dingy lanes of Chandni Chowk, Delhi-6 does full justice to the depiction of Delhi’s oldest address. With cows blocking the traffic, monkey man creating a ruckus in everyday lives of the residents, Ram Leela and the friendly paan wale bhaiya at the corner of the street; the movie packs it all in 120 minutes.

8. Do Dooni Chaar Click to look into! >> Read More...

More than the locations, this movie captures the conflict of a middle-class Delhi family trying to buy a car. The social landscape is so crisp and perfectly Delhi like. With four hearts set on a car and conflicted about which one, what colour even where to park! The ongoing metro constructions, the high school love affairs, the “call centre ki job” everything about the movie speaks Dilli.

9. Pink Pink is an American Songwriter, Singer, and Actres >> Read More...

The 2016 release movie is not for the fainthearted as it is too real and hits far more close to home than you can think. Three girls living alone get involved in a prostitution scandal and have to live with some of the choices they made. The movie follows their journey through this courtroom drama, all the while reaching into the psyche of the city and its residents who are convinced that women who venture out late in the night ‘have it coming for them’.

10. Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!

The movie is the journey of a young boy with big dreams and no means to achieve them. The rise of the local boy next door to the most notorious con man the country had seen. Delhi although is a part of the narrative only for the first half of the story but even then, it is captivating enough. So even though the character develops in Delhi only to launch him somewhere else, the city had done its part and given us a boy who grows from asking his father for a bike to robbing TV sets and music systems.