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Bollywood ki barfi: Rajkummar Rao

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Over the long weekend we finally watched Bareily ki Barfi over caramel popcorn and could have been avoided coffee. While the movie itself was not profound cinema it left the same pleasurable feeling that a good motichur laddoo would, a simple and small treat,  no michellin star plating needed. While the movie is aesthetically in the small town rom com genre, what sets it apart it Rajkummar Rao’s superb turn as Pritam Vidrohi, an unusual name for a most unusual role. 2017 will see him in Newton , whose trailer looks very promising, the web series, Bose dead/alive and Hansal Mehta’s Omerta which is finally premiering at TIFF. As versatile as the humble ubiquitous barfi, Rajkummar  can take any shape, or form, adding flavour to the film without drawing attention to himself.  Born and raised in Gurgaon, Rajkummar Rao, nee Yadav, graduated from FTII and got his first break playing the unscrupulous shop manager who uses a sex tape to make a quick buck. Ragini MMS, Talaash a