Chaalis Chauraasi Movie Reviews

A film low on publicity and marketing can also be a boomer proving all the laws of Bollywood wrong. Specially when it boasts of a veteran star cast that has no namby-pamby hero or showy side tid-bit to peddle. The cast of Naseeruddin Shah, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Ravi Kissen and Zakir Hussain is enough to carry this non descript drama to dramatic heights, carrying you through several unpredictable twists and turns that you rarely find in run-of-the-mill cinema

It’s been over half a decade since Reverend RR Patil, one among a stream of moralists in Indian politics, decided to shut down the dance bars of Mumbai for good. It’s taken as many years for Bollywood to register this fact. Movies continue to show the rainbow floors where women in wedding wear move to serve the harmless imagination of lecherous Indian males. This makes for convenient setting for both the “item number” and the den where villains and cops meet

This one's a dhamaal entertainer, with suspense and comedy thrown in at crucial moments to spice up the events that happen in one night. At every turn, there's a new twist, sometimes comical, sometimes sinister. To sum it up, director Hriday Shetty conjures up an entertainer which could be bracketed as 'suspense comedy'. The comedy comes full-on towards the end as the suspense builds up to the grand finale. Shetty begins by showing his four main protagonists

Over a period of time, Bollywood has developed its own genre of comedy. Bheja Fry, Golmaal etc have all received the thumbs up of audience especially because of its comic timing and also because of their sheer ability to make you laugh. Some of the films of this genre are far removed from reality and the humour sometimes borders on the outrageous. But who cares? It doesn’t matter as long as you drop a few pop-corns on the floor when you burst out laughing

Naseeruddin Shah. Kay Kay Menon. Atul Kulkarni. Ravi Kishen. Zakir Hussain. A dream cast, isn't it? When such talented actors, especially the very first name that I've cited, green-lights a project, the expectations sky-rocket dramatically. You can't afford to go wrong. The talent has to be utilized to the optimum. Wasting it in an ordinary script would be sacrilegious. On paper, after the actors must've read the script, I am sure they must've exclaimed

Going by the posters, one would assume 4084 was some sort of cop-road-trip movie which promises to be fun. As the filmstarts, you assume you are looking at a bunch of corrupt cops out to have a good time and obviously you expect a twist. The twist, we know has arrived, when we see handycam shots of each of the protagonists introducing themselves in amundane fashion. The narrative lurches forward aided by dialogue that is sometimes funny

The ultimate heist, the one robbery that can catapult strugglers on the brink of survival to millionaires for the rest of their lives. Nothing we haven't seen before. Hriday Shetty's latest release Chaalis Chauraasi doesn't offer anything drastically unconventional. Corrupt cops, petty conmen, the rough-and-tough baddies we've seen them all. Is it yawn time all over again? Naseeruddin Shah, Atul Kulkarni, Kay Kay Menon and Ravi Kishen have the usual mundane aspirations

Another heist film. Where Don 2 and Players opted for the exotic, fancy, and big; Chaalis Chauraasi treads local territory with earthy characters speaking colloquial dialogue. Familiar formula (assemble team, plan, execute, mission goes awry, favorable outcome), different treatment. Set in Mumbai, four crooks chance upon an opportunity to steal a ton of cash. Their MO: masquerade as cops. Undoubtedly the concept has its merit

It would really take some effort to mess up a film starring four supremely talented actors in lead roles. An uninspiring script and a dreary director work overtime to achieve such lackluster results. At the outset, Chaalis Chauraasi looks promising with its atypical cast and chronicle. But the one-dimensional plot fails to tap the immense potential of both. Four policemen are on night patrol duty in their van but soon it turns out that the cops are actually crooks

CHAALIS CHAURAASI is inconsistent. It could’ve done with a better script!

A film that has talent like Naseeruddin Shah, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni and Ravi Kissen cannot go wrong, right? Right and wrong. Four crooks Suri (Naseeruddin Shah), Bobby (Atul Kulkarni), Shakti (Ravi Kissen) and Pinto (Kay Kay Menon) steal a police van to facilitate their plan of robbing fake notes worth 20 crores. However, en route to Kalyan, from where the robbery is to take place, they encounter more than they bargained for. The four guys land up

There’s something about the way Chaalis Chauraasi begins that’s a little bit retro, like watching the title credits of a 1970s Hindi thriller. Exactly what it is that recreates that sense of generalised anticipation – the thumping background music, the Mumbai Police van careening round corners, or just the headlights bouncing off rain-slicked streets of the city at night – I don’t know. But what matters is that by the time we meet our four protagonists

Chaalis Chauraasi review by Komal Nahta Biz rating: 0.5/5 stars. What’s Good: The performances; a few comic scen...