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Movie Info

Shruti loves Barfi, a hearing and speech-impaired man, but marries someone else. Years later, she learns that he is in love with an autistic girl, and feels the need to rethink her own marriage.

Genre:

comedy, drama, adventure
Original Language:

Hindi
Director:

Anurag Basu
Producer:

Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur
Writer:

Anurag Basu
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 14, 2012 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 11, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA):

$2.8M
Runtime:

2h 30m

Cast & Crew

Ranbir Kapoor
Barfi

Priyanka Chopra
Jhilmil

Ileana D'Cruz
Shruti

Saurabh Shukla
Sudhanshu Dutta

Rupa Ganguly
Shruti's Mother

Ashish Vidyarthi
Mr. Chatterjee

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Critic Reviews for Barfi!

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (2)

There is much to admire in this attempt to push the Bollywood envelope. It's rare for mainstream Hindi cinema to feature such sensitively drawn characters.

October 24, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Anil Sinanan
Time Out
This is a film made with love, bolstered by wonderfully etched vignettes, Ranbir Kapoor's stupendous performance and a gorgeous soundtrack by Pritam. And yet, for me, Barfi was a singularly frustrating experience.

April 28, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Anupama Chopra
Hindustan Times
Perhaps, one day we will see the disabled in all their hues, in stories that truly are theirs, not churned out for our easy digestion.

April 28, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Namrata Joshi
Outlook
It's good in many ways; what stops it from being a great film is a degree of fuzziness, and an insistence on prettiness.

April 28, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Shubhra Gupta
The Indian Express
Quirky deaf man gets entangled in love triangle in poignant Bollywood romantic comedy.

September 27, 2012 | Full Review…

Lisa Tsering
Hollywood Reporter
Hopping nimbly among three distinct timeframes, helmer Basu deconstructs the film's sentimental thrust to stress his hero's in-the-moment ingenuity.

September 27, 2012 | Full Review…

Ronnie Scheib
Variety
A love letter to the best part of everyone.

November 6, 2017 | Full Review…

J Hurtado
ScreenAnarchy
Barfi! is that rare film that can make you smile and make you cry in the same scene. Its technical brilliance is only outdone by its emotional complexity and depth.

April 28, 2015 | Full Review…

Rachit Gupta
Filmfare
Barfi is more than ably handled by Anurag Basu. He remarkably immerses you in his world of sounds and verbose silences, recreating Chaplin's antics, stripping two superstars down to basics and sensitively spinning a magical world of unconditional love.

April 28, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Madhureeta Mukherjee
The Times of India
It is with some reluctance that we leave the beautiful world of Barfi!, but we do so with the knowledge that the Kapoor family legacy is safe in the hands of Ranbir, who can already lay claim to the title of the finest actor of his generation.

April 28, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Priya Joshi
Digital Spy
A moving work that is at once bittersweet and uplifting, and altogether charming.

October 29, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com
The convoluted final act may test the patience of the uninitiated, but in every other respect this atypical Hindi heartwarmer deserves international breakout success.

September 17, 2012 | Full Review…

Simon Foster
sbs.com.au

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Audience Reviews for Barfi!

Sep 15, 2012

Impressive visual story-telling, something that is very rare in Bollywood. Great cinematography, editing and art direction. Neat performances, some credit of which goes to the director as well. A good watch.

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