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An old man named Barfi dies in his home after taking a photo of himself in Darjeeling. His friend Shruti is a teacher in a school for the deaf-mute in Kolkata. Shruti is devastated to find that Barfi…
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An old man named Barfi dies in his home after taking a photo of himself in Darjeeling. His friend Shruti is a teacher in a school for the deaf-mute in Kolkata. Shruti is devastated to find that Barfi has passed away and travels to Darjeeling to see Barfi one last time. 1972 Murphy "Barfi" Johnson (Ranbir Kapoor) is an optimistic, street smart, charming young man who was born deaf-mute to a Nepali couple in Darjeeling. His mother died when he was a baby and his father Jungbahadur (Akash Khurana) raised him alone, while working as a chauffeur. His father named him Murphy after Murphy brand radio as his mother was a big fan of it. The boy pronounced Murphy as Barfi and the name stuck. Barfi is known as a troublemaker - he cuts lampposts, plays practical jokes, and is chased by Sudhanshu Dutta (Saurabh Shukla), a local police officer. The people of the town loved Barfi as he spread lots of love everywhere he went. Barfi meets Shruti Ghosh (Ileana D'Cruz), who has just arrived in Darjeeling; she is engaged to Ranjit Sengupta (Jisshu Sengupta), and is due to get married in three months, and Barfi is immediately smitten with Shruti. Barfi pursues Shruti, but initially she tries to explain that she is already engaged. Eventually, Shruti also falls in love with Barfi but her mother (Roopa Ganguly) & father (Uday Tikekar) dissuade her from pursuing him because he could not take care of her with his disabilities and lack of money. Shruti tries to argue that she does not love Ranjeet, but her mother says that Barfi and Shruti will never be able to understand each other due to communication issues. Shruti takes her mother's advice, gets married, and moves to Kolkata, breaking all contact with Barfi. Barfi knew that he lost Shruti as he did not have any money. Meanwhile, Barfi's father falls ill from kidney failure and Barfi must somehow raise the amount of Rs 7000 for his treatment. After an unsuccessful attempt to rob a local bank, he tries to kidnap Jhilmil Chatterjee (Priyanka Chopra) - Barfi's autistic childhood friend and wealthy heiress of her maternal grandfather's (Arun Bali) fortune - for a ransom. Jhilmil was considered an embarrassment by her parents and her mother (Preeti Mamgain) even tried to kill her. That day her grandfather sent her to a special-care home for autistic children, away from home. Daju (Haradhan Bandopadhyay) was Jhilmil's caretaker at the foster home, along with Mrs D'Souza (Sujata Sehgal) the founding member of the foster home. As Jhilmil grew up into an adult, her father took her back home. Jhilmil's grandfather kept control of the wealth and refused to hand it over to his son Durjoy. He sets up a trust fund for Jhilmil instead. Upon arriving at Jhilmil's home, Barfi finds she has already been kidnapped. Jhilmil's dad Durjoy (Ashish Vidyarthi) files a police report and arranges a ransom of Rs 50,000 as asked for. Jungbahadur was Durjoy's driver. Barfi is running away from police (from bank robbery case) & sees Jhilmil in a van, sneaks inside and drives Jhilmil away from the ransom delivery. He hides her in his apartment with the police in pursuit. Barfi writes a new ransom note for Rs 7000 and collects it but finds that his father has died just as he makes the payment. Dejected, Barfi tries to leave Jhilmil at the village of her caretaker Malti Mausi (Nirmala Thappa), but she refuses to leave him and they soon move to Kolkata, where Barfi assumes responsibility for Jhilmil and takes care of her. 1978 After six years, Barfi and Shruti meet by chance in Kolkata. Shruti is unhappy with her marriage and she and Barfi rekindle their friendship, much to the chagrin of the love-struck Jhilmil, who then goes missing. Shruti files a missing person report for Jhilmil. The Darjeeling police learn about the report, resume their pursuit of Barfi and arrest him. As he is being interrogated, another ransom demand for Jhilmil is made and she is apparently killed in the process of the exchange, though her body is never found. Inspector Sudhanshu is confused that how come Jhilmil's father received a ransom note for her in Darjeeling when she was living in Kolkata for last 6 years. In order to conclude the case, the police try to frame Barfi for Jhilmil's murder and is even arrested. Barfi is taken to Darjeeling for further processing, but Shruti leaves her home, and follows Barfi to help him. Barfi accepts that he has written a ransom note for Jhilmil 6 years ago but conveys that he had nothing to do with her kidnapping this time around. Policeman Sudhanshu Dutta, who grew fond of Barfi after investigating him for his nuisances, asks Shruti to take him away, offering him a second chance at life. She agrees and hopes that now Jhilmil is gone, she can finally be with Barfi. Barfi is deeply affected by Jhilmil's loss and finds living with Shruti unfulfilled. He finds the location of Jhilmil's childhood home and takes Shruti to look for her. They find that Jhilmil is still alive, and that both kidnappings were fabricated by her father so he could embezzle money from Jhilmil's trust fund. In the second attempt, Jhilmil's caretakers from her childhood foster home (Daju and Mrs D'Souza), collude with Jhilmil's father & faked her death so that she could return to her special-care home, away from her alcoholic mother. In return, Jhilmil's father gets control of the trust fund that Jhilmil's grandfather set for her. Barfi has a reunion with Jhilmil and the two get married, while Shruti spends the rest of her days alone, regretting the loss of her chance to be with Barfi. Present day Barfi is gravely ill in hospital and is close to death. Jhilmil arrives and lies with Barfi in his hospital bed as Shruti narrates that the two died peacefully together, not wanting to leave each other behind in life or death. The film closes showing the last days of Barfi and Jhilmil as credits roll.
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An old man named Barfi dies in his home after taking a photo of himself in Darjeeling. His friend Shruti is a teacher in a school for the deaf-mute in Kolkata. Shruti is devastated to find that Barfi has passed away and travels to Darjeeling to see Barfi one last time.
1972 Murphy "Barfi" Johnson (Ranbir Kapoor) is an optimistic, street smart, charming young man who was born deaf-mute to a Nepali couple in Darjeeling. His mother died when he was a baby and his father Jungbahadur (Akash Khurana) raised him alone, while working as a chauffeur. His father named him Murphy after Murphy brand radio as his mother was a big fan of it.
The boy pronounced Murphy as Barfi and the name stuck. Barfi is known as a troublemaker - he cuts lampposts, plays practical jokes, and is chased by Sudhanshu Dutta (Saurabh Shukla), a local police officer. The people of the town loved Barfi as he spread lots of love everywhere he went.
Barfi meets Shruti Ghosh (Ileana D'Cruz), who has just arrived in Darjeeling; she is engaged to Ranjit Sengupta (Jisshu Sengupta), and is due to get married in three months, and Barfi is immediately smitten with Shruti. Barfi pursues Shruti, but initially she tries to explain that she is already engaged. Eventually, Shruti also falls in love with Barfi but her mother (Roopa Ganguly) & father (Uday Tikekar) dissuade her from pursuing him because he could not take care of her with his disabilities and lack of money.
Shruti tries to argue that she does not love Ranjeet, but her mother says that Barfi and Shruti will never be able to understand each other due to communication issues. Shruti takes her mother's advice, gets married, and moves to Kolkata, breaking all contact with Barfi. Barfi knew that he lost Shruti as he did not have any money.
Meanwhile, Barfi's father falls ill from kidney failure and Barfi must somehow raise the amount of Rs 7000 for his treatment. After an unsuccessful attempt to rob a local bank, he tries to kidnap Jhilmil Chatterjee (Priyanka Chopra) - Barfi's autistic childhood friend and wealthy heiress of her maternal grandfather's (Arun Bali) fortune - for a ransom. Jhilmil was considered an embarrassment by her parents and her mother (Preeti Mamgain) even tried to kill her.
That day her grandfather sent her to a special-care home for autistic children, away from home. Daju (Haradhan Bandopadhyay) was Jhilmil's caretaker at the foster home, along with Mrs D'Souza (Sujata Sehgal) the founding member of the foster home. As Jhilmil grew up into an adult, her father took her back home.
Jhilmil's grandfather kept control of the wealth and refused to hand it over to his son Durjoy. He sets up a trust fund for Jhilmil instead. Upon arriving at Jhilmil's home, Barfi finds she has already been kidnapped.
Jhilmil's dad Durjoy (Ashish Vidyarthi) files a police report and arranges a ransom of Rs 50,000 as asked for. Jungbahadur was Durjoy's driver. Barfi is running away from police (from bank robbery case) & sees Jhilmil in a van, sneaks inside and drives Jhilmil away from the ransom delivery.
He hides her in his apartment with the police in pursuit. Barfi writes a new ransom note for Rs 7000 and collects it but finds that his father has died just as he makes the payment. Dejected, Barfi tries to leave Jhilmil at the village of her caretaker Malti Mausi (Nirmala Thappa), but she refuses to leave him and they soon move to Kolkata, where Barfi assumes responsibility for Jhilmil and takes care of her.
1978 After six years, Barfi and Shruti meet by chance in Kolkata. Shruti is unhappy with her marriage and she and Barfi rekindle their friendship, much to the chagrin of the love-struck Jhilmil, who then goes missing. Shruti files a missing person report for Jhilmil.
The Darjeeling police learn about the report, resume their pursuit of Barfi and arrest him. As he is being interrogated, another ransom demand for Jhilmil is made and she is apparently killed in the process of the exchange, though her body is never found. Inspector Sudhanshu is confused that how come Jhilmil's father received a ransom note for her in Darjeeling when she was living in Kolkata for last 6 years.
In order to conclude the case, the police try to frame Barfi for Jhilmil's murder and is even arrested. Barfi is taken to Darjeeling for further processing, but Shruti leaves her home, and follows Barfi to help him. Barfi accepts that he has written a ransom note for Jhilmil 6 years ago but conveys that he had nothing to do with her kidnapping this time around.
Policeman Sudhanshu Dutta, who grew fond of Barfi after investigating him for his nuisances, asks Shruti to take him away, offering him a second chance at life. She agrees and hopes that now Jhilmil is gone, she can finally be with Barfi. Barfi is deeply affected by Jhilmil's loss and finds living with Shruti unfulfilled.
He finds the location of Jhilmil's childhood home and takes Shruti to look for her. They find that Jhilmil is still alive, and that both kidnappings were fabricated by her father so he could embezzle money from Jhilmil's trust fund. In the second attempt, Jhilmil's caretakers from her childhood foster home (Daju and Mrs D'Souza), collude with Jhilmil's father & faked her death so that she could return to her special-care home, away from her alcoholic mother.
In return, Jhilmil's father gets control of the trust fund that Jhilmil's grandfather set for her. Barfi has a reunion with Jhilmil and the two get married, while Shruti spends the rest of her days alone, regretting the loss of her chance to be with Barfi. Present day Barfi is gravely ill in hospital and is close to death.
Jhilmil arrives and lies with Barfi in his hospital bed as Shruti narrates that the two died peacefully together, not wanting to leave each other behind in life or death. The film closes showing the last days of Barfi and Jhilmil as credits roll..