Salman Khan had Bodyguard and Ready, continuing his spell of South masala. Ajay Devgn had Singham with heavy lashings of slo mo walks and scowls. Shah Rukh Khan had Ra One and Don 2, the first a no-hoper, the second a routine actioner. Top grossers all.

But a handful of non-starry films defined 2011. The top of the pops were Delhi Belly, directed by Abhinay Deo and written by Akshat Varma, and Luv Ranjan’s Pyaar Ka Punchnama. Same same yet different in specific ways, essentially three best friends navigating the crooked ways of Delhi-NCR, with its distinctive people, pathways and not to forget, lingo.

Delhi Belly, literally, had Delhi and belly, and the smelly fruits thereof, driving the narrative. Or let’s say, three Dilli boys living in the grungiest flat that Bollywood designers c

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