Billu the Good Luck Barber (2009)
Directed by: Priyadarshan
Writers: Manisha Korde / Mushtaq Sheikh
Starring: Irfan Khan / Shah Rukh Khan / Lara Duta / Ohm Puri
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Country of Production: India
Language: Hindi
Release date: 2009-02-12
Runtime: 137 minutes
Also known as: Biru / I am a classmate of the star / Barber Biru
Good Luck Barber Synopsis · · · · · ·
Billu is a hairdresser who makes a living by running a barbershop, because the equipment in the store is old, the hairstyle is backward and can't catch up with the trend, and under the squeeze of the fashionable Madan barber shop opposite, the business is very bleak and the prospects are not optimistic. The Billu family, whose life is becoming more and more difficult, not only can not afford to pay the children's tuition, but even the family's rations are borrowed by the wife from house to house. However, the news came that the respected star Sahir was coming to make the movie, and Sheir was Billu's best playmate when he was a child. The news went away, everyone wanted to meet the big stars, and Billu became the object of everyone's attention for a while. Billu's initial attitude towards this is to avoid and resist, but under the pressure of public opinion that everyone questions him, he has to try his best to recognize Sahir, but in his heart he is also worried that the best friend he helped wholeheartedly can still be as good as he used to be...
When you were a kid, you gave your lunch box to your little friend named Sahir, secretly helped him get a haircut, stole money to watch a movie with him on the way back, asked him to imitate the characters in the movie, sold his gold earrings to buy him a ticket to Mumbai, and stuffed the rest of the money into his shirt pocket...
Many, many years later, you left your hometown and relied on a small barber shop to make a living, but you were snubbed because you could not catch up with the trend, your children could not pay their tuition, and your wife had to borrow food shyly, and you were snubbed and ridiculed everywhere... At this time, Sahi came, and the child inadvertently reported that the big star and his father were friends. Suddenly, you have become a fragrant bounty, everyone rushes to flatter you, trying to climb the relationship with the big star Sahir through you, you deny, shirk, avoid, everyone just does not believe, self-talk to put you forward. Finally, one day, you could not resist all kinds of internal and external difficulties, plucked up enough courage to call, but you were scolded, and you could only crouch in the tree far away to watch your former friends, the branches were broken, and they were thrown heavily on the ground. In the end, you were even falsely accused of pretending to be Sahir's friend and going around cheating. You, and your family are despised, spurned, cursed... Reality, so vicious. You, just be patient, silent, and do nothing.
Finally, at the end, Sahir's eyes were red with emotion at that country elementary school, and he remembered with emotion everything you had done for him, and the air was full of childhood friendships, and you fled away from the fence, because you had said that you did not want him to repay and did not want him to reciprocate. And at this moment, you are so lost, how can you bear to see each other, there is no other way but to run away.
And he, after all, still came, like a god, walking in front of you who had lost his soul and lost his soul. All words are superfluous, and all that so many years of hesitation requires is a hug. You say to him "You've gone so far that I lost the idea of seeing you" and you say "I mistook you" again.
It sounds cowardly, ridiculous, and a little weak and unconfident, but I know that when faced with a former friend who has a huge gap with himself, all of us will become you, with trepidation and lack of confidence and some inexplicable self-esteem, which makes us alienate our former friends, and divide things on the road of life because of different encounters.
What a blessing it was to be able to meet Billu as a child and then turn around and meet Sahir as an adult.
The film spends 99% of its time showing the social reality of people's worship of fame and fortune, but at the end, it takes a sharp turn and sacrifices the sincerity of friendship. The superstar came to the school to participate in the ceremony and gave a speech, in which he mentioned his childhood friend Biru, detailed the various fraternal deeds between the two of them, and expressed Bilu's infinite thoughts, a word, real, simple, touching, not only touched the Biru who was polite at the school gate, but also touched the audience, as for myself, it was even more tearful. After witnessing all kinds of social realities influenced by fame and fortune, the superstar's insistence on friendship is like a bright sunlight breaking through the dark clouds of the sky and illuminating the whole earth, and those who have become desperate for society are suddenly rescued.
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