Chamku movie rating and review

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Chamku (2008) Movie Rating and Review :

Rating :

Acting – 4/10
Direction – 3/10
Screenplay – 1/10
Music – 3/10
Technique – 3/10

Review :

But seriously

Bobby Deol runs helter-skelter through a crowded mall, desperately trying to catch the man responsible for his tormented childhood. This was the first scene that greeted us as we walked into a dark multiplex on Friday morning. This was the beginning of the second half of Chamku!

The last-minute cancellation of a 9.30am show of the Bobby Deol-starrer at INOX Forum forced us to turn the review format on its head — let’s do it second half first! Yes, to meet the deadline, we watched the second half of Chamku first at INOX City Centre and then rushed to Priya to see the first half! Was the run fun? Yes. Was Chamku worth all the effort? No.

Whether you watch it from beginning to end, end to beginning, middle to end, end to middle, inside out, Chamku is a boring watch.

Based on the real-life story of Chandrama Singh alias Chamku (Bobby Deol), who goes from being a dreaded Naxalite to a member of a covert government programme — spearheaded by RAW and IB, no less — and carries out political assassinations with deadpan Deol nonchalance.

Working with the government on some occasions, conspiring against it often, the programme is headed by a conniving officer Kapoor (Irrfan Khan) and Chamku unquestioningly carries out his duties till a day dawns when he is forced to confront the demons from his past.

The subject is grave, but the problem with Chamku is that it takes itself far too seriously. Director Kabeer Kaushik who pleasantly surprised us with the Arshad Warsi-starrer Sehar a couple of years ago doesn’t have his grip on Chamku.

The promising plot is let down by dialogues that have no punch, characters that have no depth and a screenplay which is so slow that you feel like giving it a helpful push every now and then. In fact, things move at such a snail’s pace in those two hours that one feels one has aged decades in the movie hall. Chamku is also plagued by a hurried, an unexplained climax and too many unanswered questions.

Bobby Deol — as wooden as his Barsaat days — makes Chamku a painful watch. With just one expression for every scene in his acting repertoire, Bobby doesn’t seem to have recovered from the disco-ball hit in Shaka Laka Boom Boom. Looking like a million bucks, Priyanka Chopra is the sole saving grace for Chamku. Monty Sharma’s music — save for the Aaj milke number — is a complete letdown.

“Film ke end mein agar kuch mazedaar na ho toh audience feels cheated,” is what Irrfan’s Kapoor says somewhere in the film. If only he had explained the meaning of this to the makers of Chamku.

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