Take an excellent man with no mind and a foul man in a gorilla go well with, pack them off in a truck and what do you get? A depressing excuse for mirthless slapstick, in a movie that rambles down the highway to nowhere.
“Hello Charlie” is a type of ‘enjoyable movies’ the place you wrestle to recall a single gag that was humorous sufficient, inside two minutes that the tip credit have rolled. The ‘enjoyable movie’ classification ought to draw a prepared viewers base, for a begin. The movie — if you happen to can name this a movie — will wrestle to retain viewers curiosity thereon.
Director Pankaj Saraswat of “Hello Charlie” had as soon as upon a time screenplayed a pleasant little comedy known as “Main Meri Patni Aur Woh”. That was in 2005, over a decade and a half in the past. All these years later, Saraswat has chosen senseless monkey mayhem for his function movie directorial debut — the kind that stopped being humorous some time again.
The Bollywood slapstick largely attracts from inventory formulae, banking totally on not very witty however nonetheless humorous gags to attain. It takes a sure knack to tug off such a trick (random recall: Rajkumar Santoshi’s “Andaz Apna” or the quite a few movies Priyadarshan recreated from his previous Malayalam hits, and even Indra Kumar’s “Dhamaal”). The generic prerequisite of such movies is to boost the laughs, by no means thoughts being low on logic.
“Hello Charlie” has neither the laughs nor logic.
Aadar Jain is Chirag Rastogi, or Charlie, who would appear just like the resident city fool of Indore, who evidently cannot make out the distinction between an actual gorilla and a person in a gorilla go well with. Charlie arrives in Mumbai in search of a job as a result of there’s his father’s 15-lakh mortgage to repay, and lands at mamaji’s (Darshan Jariwala) place. Twist within the story sees him transporting a gorilla in his uncle’s truck to Diu. Charlie, after all, has no clue that the gorilla is definitely a fugitive on the run — industrialist MD Makwana (Jackie Shroff), who is needed for a 4000-crore financial institution fraud.
Assorted characters thrown into the brainless plot, as Charlie and his cargo hit the freeway, embrace Makwana’s girlfriend, mannequin Mona (Elnaaz Norouzi), a dancer named Padma (Shlokka Pandit) who Charlie rescues alongside the best way and whose sole function of existence within the script is an merchandise dance, a grasping circus proprietor Patel (Girish Kulkarni), a drunk vet (Bharat Ganeshpure), a forest ranger known as Solee Topi (Rajpal Yadav, with little precise motion within the comedian script), and an actual gorilla that has escaped from the zoo and that appears smarter than a lot of the human solid.
The concept is to create comedian chaos. The final result is just too compelled to be comedian, too lazy to be chaotic.
“Hello Charlie” is the kind of movie that stands to realize resulting from a direct-to-OTT launch. Lots of people will watch as a result of everybody wants a dose of comedian prescription within the time of curfew and Covid. The makers expend that benefit by not attempting onerous sufficient to excel.
