This is something very real and excellently showed. Kudos to all team of this movie. To learn and see what happens, gain experience and learning is the best way of living your life. Sanjay Mishra has delivered again and again but this was one of his best. Rajat Kappor has written and acted also very well and keeps us thinking about the aspects and the way we live our life motto's. Keep it up everyone and make movies of these sorts again and again. Without being preachy the premise makes you (makes us) introspect – all of us, lost in the jungle of consumerism are losing our own thought prowess; the power of self experience. As bauji would have said which goes in English somewhat this - Whatever I am saying is my truth, my experience. Don't go by it only as your's experience & truth can be different.(For some reason IMDb is not allowing me to out the Hindi sentence thus have to give the translated version). In this way the film hits the consumerist (And media dominated) culture whereby people are losing their self identity.Must watch for everyone all age, gender to learn and see within themselves.

Ankhon Dekhi is a particular type of movie which makes one think. Rajat Kapur has done a marvelous job in scripting the movie keeping in mind the very detail. He has effortlessly captured the middle class proforma of Indian society, at the same time raising the bar with the philosophical insights of a common travel agency worker (Bauji). To question the societal norms, to believe in something which one can only justify by using one's senses has been the foundation of the movie. Bauji starts questioning things which we have taken for granted. His actions draw laughter from the society and anxiety to his family. Yet his unhindered walk for the verified truth continues. Rajat Kapur has failed to ignore smallest of details. From the crisis of middle class family to the thirst of the common man to find meaning and purpose in life is so seamlessly portrayed that if hardly feels reel. Adding to that is the background score, adding right pinch of salt whenever necessary. The movie throws a lot of open questions to the audience without moving to any particular resolution. After all the ending was the "ankhon dekhi anubhab" (eye witnessed experience) of Buji, which could have been as much different for someone else. The closure thus provided once again proves to be one of the most cherished and pivotal points of the movie and in an essence of the script. Surely one of my best watches till date.

I heard a lot of good things about this film so I was looking forward to it. I finally got a chance to watch it and I was amazed by what I saw.With Aankho Dekhi, Rajat Kapoor shows us that Bollywood is pretty much alive. This is one of the best Bollywood movies I have ever seen. It is not a movie that you can ignore. It is pure art. This is the story of a man who decides that he will not believe anything that he has not seen with his own eyes. He will experience things first and then believe it. This is the plot, but it is executed in a brilliant way.Sanjay Mishra gives the best performance of his career and "bauji". Other actors are equally good.The screenplay is brilliant and tight. every dialogue is thought provoking and has a deep meaning. The conversations between the characters are really interesting (e.g. the conversation about parallel lines and gravity). So anyone looking for over the top and cheap dialogue will be disappointed. Rajat Kapoor uses the real world conversations without making it boring.The cinematography is amazing and easily one of the best I have seen in Bollywood films.Background music is really good. You can feel it. Some parts will give you goosebumps.This movie has no unnecessary dance sequences and songs (Dance sequences and unnecessary songs kill the movies for me). Every song has a meaning.The atmosphere is great. You really get the feeling that you are watching an Indian middle-class joint family. Rajat shows you the problems they face in their day to day life and the happiness they find in the small things. It also deals with the issues of having a joint family or nuclear family.The ending of the movie is spectacular and I do not think anything else would have worked better than this. the ending is symbolic and left for open interpretation. You can believe what you want to believe.But this is not a movie for everyone. some people will not get the point this film is trying to make. It is a journey of self discovery. It is a rare gem of Hindi cinema and will get a cult status in the future.

When this came out, it sure seemed like t'was a good week for Indian Indies.Rajat Kapoor, finally out with a great effort after one of the best pulp crime dark comedies ever made in the Indian milieu, 'Mithya'.(He has made other movies before and since, but that stood out for me, and parts of 'Mixed Doubles')This one's called 'Aankhon Dekhi' and was out in just a few screens - in and out within a week, and in few lucky locations, about 2 weeks.Rajat has always been a bold artist, both in his acting as well as directing choices, but this perhaps could be his boldest work, in spite of being an Indie, and the pitch itself would have been nightmarish to pull off. Its also perhaps his slickest, and he ensures that Delhi is captured every lovingly throughout. The respect for his characters shows throughout, as do his musical choices, all of which firmly scream 'Indie'. Sanjay Mishra, widely regarded a great actor, is perfectly cast (along with the rest) as the family patriarch, with Rajat casting himself (against type) as the Khadoos chacha. Its all about how each of lives reaches a point where something happens to make us change perspective (which one character also casually dismisses as 'menopause'), and how that even that affects us in making a radical change affects those around us. Though this flick is much more than that, with us, as the audience, just joining the protagonist in a journey that he's already on, this is the beginning point for us as we get on the ride. It called to mind the trip I had a few months earlier with 'Om Dar- ba-dar', though this one stays firmly in the real world and sticks the landing too. A trip nevertheless, both for us, the audiences, as well as the lead protagonist, who has a crisis of faith (some might disagree, but this was my lens doing the viewing) when we first encounter him initially, and yet stays firm in his conviction of doing something different in his life that he has never done earlier, something that casts him in a different light, and brings the neglected skills, nee, requirements that are critical thinking and the ability to reason. Sadly, though this is a poster child of sorts for both those attributes, the audiences, mainstream and Indie alike, have chosen not to use both in their decision to ignore this. Ironic, like most things are. In hindsight, this also would've made a good entry to being shortlisted as this country's entry for the Oscars, and I'm not sure it was considered. Like that 1988 movie I referred to earlier, the trip, I do hope this one also finds it audience over time, and Rajat manages to match the level of film- making that he seems to have attained with this one.I did observe a few audience-members (most of them well-behaved and who enjoyed/respected the material) complain about the abruptness of certain sequences, but I beg to disagree completely. This is not for anyone who's after instant gratification - Salman movies exist for that purpose. This one takes its time, and breathes.I still have no clue why there was almost next-to-no-buzz about this one, no festival talk either (this would make a great representation for India all across) and all I've seen's just the poster since 1 month back. Sad. 'Lunchbox' guys did it wayyy better in terms of publicity, and movies such as this one deserve such an approach.Ranvir Shorey and Saurabh Shukla have blink-and-miss cameos. Its always nice to watch them in action, no matter how short the runtime. Wish there was one with Vinay Pathak as well.Don't miss it - support good cinema by watching it on the big screen. And do it this week, cuz it just might leave cinemas by then.