Aamir Khan as a movie producer can be as exciting and engaging as Aamir Khan the movie star. He produces most of his outings now, so apart from the brand that he is, the coherence of plot is simultaneously taken care of. At times, we see something nobody ever dared to show before. In ‘Delhi Belly’, director Abhinay Deo and writer Akshat Verma gave the genre ‘adult comedy’ the smartness it desperately needed and deserved.

Hindi filmmakers often confuse sexual innuendo and double entendre as funny when it comes to making comedies for adults. Deo and Verma first attack the plot, fill it with ingenious characters, give these people sharp and clever lines, and then stuff situations that can explode when they happen with them. For a film that’s made for a crisp 90-minute that seldom allows you to pause for breath, the opening stretch is quite… slow, but also very amusing.