As a girl are you sure you are making the right decision by choosing a career path that you know will take the better of your energy?
As a man are u sure that you will be able to accept a wife who earns more than you?
With Gen-next going places, one of the greatest leaps that we have taken is in empowering the women by giving them the right to work, earn a living and contribute to the family. In different degrees, women have started getting a life of their own, away from being a daughter, sister and a wife.
Delhi Heights deals with a working couple, living in Delhi. Jimmy Shergil and Neha Dhupia is an educated couple working in rival companies on same profiles. After having known each other for over five years they get married and life’s so perfect for them. They lead busy professional lives and are as dedicated to their work as their personal lives. Between all the perfection crops a failure of a marketing campaign in Jimmy Shergil’s company while Neha’s company gets it solely because of her capabilities.
We all can guess what follows. Yes, the male ego takes the better of him and fights crop on issues that never existed. He goes on to blame her for not maintaining a good image in front of the people and letting his friend be too friendly with her.
A mellowed version of “Abhimaan”, Delhi Heights lives far from any high-tech emotional dramas, making it realistic for any young, working couple (or couple to be).
I have supported for long that the generation before us had a life much more complex than us. Despite their claims of having lived simple, down to earth lives, what made them unhappy with themselves was the lack of expression of their love! Living under the taboos of the society, they lost an entire life not realizing that their happiness was in their own hands. But we are young! We are new! And we know what we want! Call us aimless or shameless, we love and we show it, we care and we express it and the world… do hell with it!
The lives of Jimmy and Neha reach a situation where he declares that either of them will have to step down from their job if they wanted to retain this relationship. The obvious statement that he makes is asking the lady to drop her career. But it is soon that he realizes that this is no option, after all she deserves it just as much as he does.
In a side-plot we see the story of Rohit Roy and Simon Singh who have been married for six years. Rohit is a flirt-o-holic who realizes his mistake and returns to the right path as soon as he realizes that his wife has got to know of his elicit romances. Though for long I wondered what this part of the story meant, but I got the clue in the fact that today’s generation is prone to temptations, we fall into them, sometimes we don’t take our responsibilities as seriously as we should. But that never means we are incapable of doing that. We understand our responsibilities and know how to handle them.
Though Delhi Heights is not great in terms of direction, story or cinematography, yet it excels in the issue it raises and the way it is dealt with. Towards the end, Jimmy realizes his mistakes and apologizes to his better half and things fall in place. At this note I will not miss mentioning the men of my generation who I feel proud of. They understand that equality for woman is not something that they have to grant, a woman is born equal and she doesn’t need a stamp on it from anyone.
The sound track is done by Rabbi Shergill with his super hit track Tere Bin Sannu Soneya becoming a major USP for the film. Though the other songs are avrage too, it definitly is a delight for the fans of Rabbi-style of music.
Between all the battle of sexes Delhi has its high moments too. Typical dilliwala atmosphere surrounds the movie with a car bumping into another every 30 minutes, jaat police inspectors loitering the scenes, big fat Delhi weddings, the eve teasing attempts, etc.
By the way did you ever wonder why Nayi Sarak is in Old Delhi and Purana Kila in New Delhi? : P