Thursday, September 11, 2008

Chamku: Movie Review

As boring as its name is.

Would any boy ,at the age of 8, survive if he is hit by a gun on chest? Yes, if his offscreen surname is Deol. Chamku lives with his father peacefully in the village, until once Thakur (Akhilendra Mishra) kills his father and half kills him. Saved by a Naxalite group, Chamku is now also a Naxalite. Leaded by Danny Dengzoppa, he is one of the core in the Naxalite group.
Now would he survive, if he is hit 3-4 bullets by police officers in an encounter? Offcourse, he does. No body else in the group survives. Again the same reason - no body is Deol in the group - except him, so now accept him. A special task officer (Irrfan Khan) offers him to join the special task force and be sharp shooter for the nation. With no other choice in the hand, Chamku agrees.
He then sadistically kills the terrorists, sadistically sleeps on the floor, sadistically wears black shirt in the whole movie, sadistically make friends with another STF sharp shooter (Ritesh Deshmukh), sadistically falls in love with a school teacher (Piggy Chops) and gets sadistically killed (offcourse half killed, not dead... Deols are never dead) several a times by cops, terrorists, again Thakur etc. Ritesh Deshmukh is killed by the STF officers itself as he wants to leave and is dead due to its offscreen surname. Chamku wants to leave, but cant leave. He is the best sharp shooter and applies again for the permanent leave, and is senctioned officially but STF officers had different plans. He then kills Thakur, STF officers, other 20-30 gundas and gets leave however.
Bored by reading the story? Think how we would have been bored watching the full movie, wanting temperory leave from the movie.
In the whole theater, we were only 8 persons suffering from Chamku. You must be thinking, why? Were others enjoying? No, there were we 8 only in the theater, who were watching. And, Laxmi Theater, Mandvi has to close the movie shows in 2 days only, and has to release a B grade Hollywood Movie instead of Chamku.
In the beginning of the movie, we enjoyed the excellent camera work and good cinematography, but within an hour, due to lukewarm storyline, it vanished too.
In Mtv Ticker, this was the cool line in fond memory of Chamku: "Abhay Deol wants to change his surname, after watching Chamku." We are glad, ours is not.

BT Kida's Recommendation: *

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