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.
The wannabe Disney feel is there in the relatively breezy first half. Makwana (Jackie Shroff), a notorious scamster absconding from the police, wants to migrate to safer shores (read Dubai) and his mistress, model Mona (Elnaaz Norouzi) suggests he don a monkey suit and be carted to Diu, the sea-port from where a boat can take them there.
Enter Chirag a.k.a. Charlie (Aadar Jain), a young, nerdy man who has to repay his fatherâs debt and, against the express wishes of his uncle (Darshan Jariwala), who owns a truck he says must not be touched except to be cleaned, uses it when Mona offers him a grand amount to cart the caged Makwana, dressed up in a monkey suit to Diu.
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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