Hello Charlie
Cast: Jackie Shroff, Aadar Jain, Shlokka Pandit, Elnaaz Norouzi, Rajpal Yadav, Girish Kulkarni
Director: Pankaj Saraswat
Take a very good man with no mind and a nasty 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 street to nowhere.
Hello Charlie is a type of ‘fun films’ the place you battle to recall a single gag that was humorous sufficient, inside two minutes that the top credit have rolled. The ‘fun film’ classification ought to draw a prepared viewers base, for a begin. The movie — should you can name this a movie — will battle to retain viewers curiosity thereon.
Director Pankaj Saraswat of Hello Charlie had as soon as upon a time screenplayed a pleasant little comedy referred to 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 characteristic movie directorial debut — the type 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 lift 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 can’t 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, in fact, 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 objective of existence within the script is an merchandise dance, a grasping circus proprietor Patel (Girish Kulkarni), a drunk vet (Bharat Ganeshpure), a forest ranger referred to 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 simply too compelled to be comedian, too lazy to be chaotic.
Hello Charlie is the type of movie that stands to achieve because of 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 laborious sufficient to excel.
Rating: 2/5
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