Chaar Din Ki Chandni: Movie Review
Chaar Din Ki Chandni is a comeback film of sorts. It marks the comeback of names like Anita Raj, Chandrachur Singh and Harish. Huh! Also it's the return of Yamla Pagla Deewana director Samir Karnik in familiar and familial North Indian territory. Plus it's the close comeback of the eternal Bollywood setting of an extended joint family in a marriage backdrop.
The story falls in pretty conventional zone where Veer (Tusshar Kapoor) gets his girlfriend Chandni (Kulraj Randhawa) home during an impending family wedding. Apprehensive that his Rajasthan Royal father (Anupam Kher) won't approve of the Punjabi kudi, he merely introduces her as a journalist friend. Her parents (Om Puri, Farida Jalal) are forced to pose as marriage decorators. Evidently what follows is a comedy of errors.
There is an overflow of the usual-suspect characters from a spying mamaji, a gay wedding planner, a battalion of Sardars to three brothers of Veer who fall for Chandni. And by the time Puppy Sardar (Tusshar Kapoor again as a Sardar) comes into plot, you realize that the film is more or less a watered-down version of Yamla Pagla Deewana.
The good part however is that director Samir Karnik doesn't waste the entire first half in establishing the love story between the lead pair (like in Yamla Pagla Deewana). Mercifully, much of the unneeded exercise is cut short with the couple already being in love. Chandni's charm takes center-stage in the first half while Puppy Singh's farce takes over the second half. Thankfully the marriage setting isn't blown out of proportion and remains only as the backdrop.
But the film turns frail particularly in the department that you expect it to excel. Being a comedy, the humour should have been the highpoint though it ranges from silly to stupid ones. Though not downright slapstick, the gags could have been more original. Some jokes are stretched beyond their expiry date while others are plain unexciting. The laughs induced are more due to the energy of actors than the film's sense of humour. Also the Tom and Jerry kinda action finale was pretty-much avoidable.
The story falls in pretty conventional zone where Veer (Tusshar Kapoor) gets his girlfriend Chandni (Kulraj Randhawa) home during an impending family wedding. Apprehensive that his Rajasthan Royal father (Anupam Kher) won't approve of the Punjabi kudi, he merely introduces her as a journalist friend. Her parents (Om Puri, Farida Jalal) are forced to pose as marriage decorators. Evidently what follows is a comedy of errors.
There is an overflow of the usual-suspect characters from a spying mamaji, a gay wedding planner, a battalion of Sardars to three brothers of Veer who fall for Chandni. And by the time Puppy Sardar (Tusshar Kapoor again as a Sardar) comes into plot, you realize that the film is more or less a watered-down version of Yamla Pagla Deewana.
The good part however is that director Samir Karnik doesn't waste the entire first half in establishing the love story between the lead pair (like in Yamla Pagla Deewana). Mercifully, much of the unneeded exercise is cut short with the couple already being in love. Chandni's charm takes center-stage in the first half while Puppy Singh's farce takes over the second half. Thankfully the marriage setting isn't blown out of proportion and remains only as the backdrop.
But the film turns frail particularly in the department that you expect it to excel. Being a comedy, the humour should have been the highpoint though it ranges from silly to stupid ones. Though not downright slapstick, the gags could have been more original. Some jokes are stretched beyond their expiry date while others are plain unexciting. The laughs induced are more due to the energy of actors than the film's sense of humour. Also the Tom and Jerry kinda action finale was pretty-much avoidable.
