What a beautiful movie!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Dhobi Ghat (mumbai diaries) is one piece of art of the Indian cinema. It is defiantly not the normal Hindi cinema stuff ... although i am glad that it isn't. I personally am very attached to Mumbai I was born there and lived for 10years+ therefore i am very attached to the city as well as the movie. The movie starts with an outlook on the city of Mumbai. It revolves around the lives of 4 main characters and there drastically different lives. The movie has these characters that are connected but still not connected set in Mumbai just the way Mumbai is. As the movie progresses the story unfolds and the story and the characters get involved with each other.All the characters are from different walks of live and strive to find a silver lining which they may or may not find.Over all i loved it, its a kind of an art movie and its not everyones cup of tea. Although its great work by the actors and director!

Lo and behold, there's a new talent on the director's chair. Take a bow, Kiran Rao, this is one of the best directorial debuts ever.Dhobhi Ghat is a scholar's (Kiran Rao) dedication to its muse (Mumbai). A savoury ode to one's fetishes. A philosopher's view of the contradictions of our civilization. And a guiltless acceptance of one's harmless pursuits. There is no scepticism in Rao's love for the city. It's pure and unconditional. That is why she chose "Dil tadap tadap ke keh raha hai aa bhi ja" as the song to describe her feelings.He meets her, she meets him and he meets Yasmin. There's no beginning. There's no end. There's a journey that goes, ripping the obstacles around it, while walking, sipping a cuppa tea, smelling the fragrance of flowers and hacking the caustic forces in form of cruel changes before they suck our passion. The editor's chopping table called for a sacrifice; as a result, the fifth character, that of the labourer, went away. One may call it a mistake, but perhaps it was influenced by the ruthless impatience of today's young breed.We all know Prateik had talent. We all saw how he turned an unlikeable introvert from Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na into a lovable character. This time he submits himself to his character of Munna, a ghetto boy. Never do you feel that he is the MTV-watching yuppie. The ode to Salman Khan, the Khan of all seasons, is a masterstroke. How could Munna be a fan of anyone else, other than the 'Bhaijaan' of the Hindi film industry? Monica Dogra is impressive. She underplays herself so well. We need to see more of her. Kirti Malhotra (Yasmin) is a talent to watch out for. Now on to the biggie: Aamir Khan. He is the only mainstream actor, a man of the classes and the masses, who'd have the guts to be a part of a cinema like this where he is basically a supporting character, free from any starry traits. This character is the opposite of what he played in Ghajini. There he played it to the gallery with aplomb. Here he's restrained, virtually immersed in the background. He talks less, thinks more. For those not used to subtle acting, this performance of Aamir warrants a repetitive viewing to get the notes correctly.Here lies a cathartic passion of finding one's inner-self in Mumbai Diaries. In many ways, it's a kind of a love story where one doesn't realises that one is in love till years go by -- an unchanging soul of one's life. It grows on you like a fine malt.

In a word a great work.I think such kind of work is really appreciable. Here I saw a lot of reviews and I don't know why they wrote such kind of reviews against this movie. Direction superb, filmography superb, story not much rich but attractive.A movie of four characters, but the character of that newly married women is really great. It's quite skillful work to put such kind of character into this movie stream.I really enjoyed that movie. And wanna have more such kind of movies from Bollywood. And not gonna delete this from my drive. Really a great movie.I really don't know, why I'm seeing such kind of review here against this movie.

Before watching this I read the reviews here and according to majority this movie is Crap. People have supported the negative reviews and thumbed them up to bring them on top and all positive remarks are at the bottom. I am sure the same happens with my review too.OK when I watched the movie I was like What the....! Its the best 2011 movie according to me. It was so beautiful and engaging. I don't believe people calling it a cure for insomniacs and blah blah. Amir showed us what great acting is and so as all the other cast. What Amir did in 3 idiots is not called great acting but this movie definitely portray great performance by Amir. The direction was also superb. I have seen almost every 2011 movie and this is the only movie for which I can say "yes this is Cinema".All I can say is that people need to change the way they watch movies. I mean all movies are not equal. Why cheap vulgar comedies are appreciate by people in India more than serious intelligent Cinema? Sorry to see these cheap movies get recognized and not artistic movies.I am very disappointed by people's attitude towards this movie. I am sure if this movie had some item number by Katrina, some cheap jokes, horrible dances, action etc People will be in line to see it! Grow up Indian Audience please!