BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
Take a good guy with no brain and a bad guy in a gorilla suit, pack them off in a truck and what do you get? A miserable excuse for mirthless slapstick, in a film that rambles down the road to nowhere.
“Hello Charlie” is one of those ‘fun films’ where you struggle to recall a single gag that was funny enough, within two minutes that the end credits have rolled. The ‘fun film’ classification should draw a ready audience base, for a start. The film if you can call this a film will struggle to retain audience interest thereon.
Hello Charlie: Mindless monkey mayhem
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Direction: Pankaj Saraswat
BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
Take a good guy with no brain and a bad guy in a gorilla suit, pack them off in a truck and what do you get? A miserable excuse for mirthless slapstick, in a film that rambles down the road to nowhere. Hello Charlie is one of those fun films where you struggle to recall a single gag that was funny enough, within two minutes that the end credits have rolled. The fun film classification should draw a ready audience base, for a start. The film if you can call this a film will struggle to retain audience interest thereon.
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Star Cast: Jackie Shroff’s face, Aadar Jain, Shlokka Pandit, Elnaaz Norouzi, Rajpal Yadav, Bharat Ganeshpure, Girish Kulkarni
Director: Pankaj Saraswat
What’s Good: Out of too many scattered punchlines, few work
What’s Bad: It teases you by laying this larger-than-life premise, building hopes of having this unabashedly hilarious comedy routine, but exposes its hollow plot ruined by the lazy writing
Loo Break: If you took a break, you’re not resuming this!
Watch or Not?: If you’ve 100 minutes lying around to kill, go ahead!
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A good for nothing Chirag Rastogi (Aadar Jain), coolly known as Charlie, is staying with his uncle (Darshan Jariwala), who loves his truck as much as Boman’s pappppa loved his car in Dhamaal. Parallelly, we’ve MD Makwana (Jackie Shroff), the country’s eccentric on-the-run fraudster, and we all know on whom this character is based on within minutes he’s introduced.
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Hello Charlie Director: Pankaj Saraswat
Hello Charlie Stars: 2/5
Aadar Jain made his Bollywood debut back in 2017 with Qaidi Band and even then there was much chatter about the young actor s voice. If you haven t heard him yet, don t be too surprised if you mistake him for his cousin Ranbir Kapoor. While that s something beyond Aadar s control, choosing Hello Charlie and his character Chirag Rastogi aka Charlie is. Making a comeback of sorts after his debut film, Aadar plays the goofy Charlie who comes to Mumbai to make a living but his silly antics get the better of him.
Directed by Pankaj Saraswat, Hello Charlie navigates between Mumbai, Gujarat and Diu. Alongside Aadar in this adventurous comedy are Jackie Shroff, debutante Shhloka Pandit, Elnaaz Norouzi and Rajpal Yadav among other prominent actors. Charlie comes to Mumbai not to make big dreams but to earn simply enough so that he can pay off his dad s loan worth Rs 15 lakh. Living with his uncle Karsan bhai, a Gujurat