Take college friendship from "Dil chahta hai", Nostalgia from "Rock On", zest & inspiration from "Jo jeeta Vo Sikandar", and innocent Love from "Qayamat se Qayamat Tak" - add to it just the right amount of tragedy, laughter, hope and a nail biting climax, that does not finish the movie; and yes garnish it with just the right background sound, finely narrated story and crisply cooked dialogues and very well timed comedy - resulting into a delectable, fresh, aromatic, shaken not stirred dish that leaves a pleasant tingling after taste long after you reslished it - I am talking about the movie "Chichore (छिछोरे)".
The movie is about six friends from an engineering college who are brought together again by a tragedy remembering & reliving their college days, - surprised that the most loveable affair of that time has resulted in a divorce and realising how far they have come from those days. Seems familiar - isn't it? A whiff of all those movies that I named in that immense effort of a paragraph.
Trust me - it's not familiar. I mean - Familiar nahi bhi hai aur hai bhi. Remember Matt finish. 😊
Editing is so crisp that there does not appear to be even one second extra. The songs are not really hummable and are forgettable but they fit in the scheme of the movie quite well. One thing that makes a deep impact in the movie are the choice and design of the costumes. They just fit the time and environment painted in the movie. Dialogues so well written that they hit the right chord always. They add verve to the movie - there are many that will ring later but here are two that meant a world to me
"loser का टैग आदमी पहनता भी खुद है और उतारता भी खुद ही है" and
"अब जा - एक loser की तरह नहीं, एक फाइटर की तरह"
Direction is just perfect - Nitesh Tiwari has turned out another winner after Dangal. However he does better than dangal by delivering a powerful message in this one. He finally found a fine balance between the fine messaging of "chillar party" and great commercial mix of "dangal" in this movie.
"छिछोरे" has a "must watch" rating from me - so go book a ticket if you have not done it already. I have a few statutory disclosures to make - I may have associated more with the movie because of my years in the hostel of my engineering college & my hostel days at the IIML and also because I dropped my son at the door of an IIT just one and a half month back. And this does not give away the most important part of the story. Well actually I have not given away and have given away too. Remember the matt finish. 😊
Finally I left the movie hall with one regret that I did not watch this movie with my son sitting beside me in the hall. So, if you are a parent of a kid, who would soon be entering a college - don't forget to book his tickets too.
After a long long while a movie that thoroughly entertains. No, it is not a edge of the seat thriller; No, it is not a Love story (thank God); No, it is not even a biopic; and sorry but no, it is not even a spell binding action movie. It is like - to borrow a simile from the lady in a currently popular ad - the matt finish : "ऐसा लगता है कुछ कराया नहीं है but कराया है"
If you can see the wily-nily, tipsy-topsy, iffy-buty, hook or crook, effort that I put in the first paragraph to express the amount of effort that Nitesh Tiwari put in creating this movie and then you also realise that despite all that effort, I turned out to be loser in expressing it and yet you feel very happy because of the sheer effort I put in that paragraph - you will then admire and appreciate the movie as much as I do.
If you can see the wily-nily, tipsy-topsy, iffy-buty, hook or crook, effort that I put in the first paragraph to express the amount of effort that Nitesh Tiwari put in creating this movie and then you also realise that despite all that effort, I turned out to be loser in expressing it and yet you feel very happy because of the sheer effort I put in that paragraph - you will then admire and appreciate the movie as much as I do.
The movie is about six friends from an engineering college who are brought together again by a tragedy remembering & reliving their college days, - surprised that the most loveable affair of that time has resulted in a divorce and realising how far they have come from those days. Seems familiar - isn't it? A whiff of all those movies that I named in that immense effort of a paragraph. Trust me - it's not familiar. I mean - Familiar nahi bhi hai aur hai bhi. Remember Matt finish. 😊
The soul - the "जान" - of the movie is how the experiences of the college life of these six friends have been weaved into a story of a young, hard working, aspiring boy who is on the edge. It gives the movie a purpose - delivering a powerful message. In that sense this movie goes beyond "Rock on" or "dil chahta hai". It starts on a sad, almost depressing, note but then Tiwari is able to keep it light, breezy and entertaining. The message is delivered without being preachy. That is quite an achievement.
The movie is set in a hostel of an engineering college which most Engineers my age, all my seniors and my juniors upto at least ten batches will easily relate to. The crazy things students used to do in the college especially in a hostel of those days, the funny odd pet names they get, the life long bonds they create, the affection - the fights - the pranks - the jokes - the ragging, even the campa cola and the Gold Spot in the canteen and yes that Boys and Girls Hostel thing - which is almost impossible to put in words. And Yes before I forget - the bond that one develops for his/her hostel at a college. It's almost like patriotism for your country - isn't it!?
You easily start relating to one or the other character with ones that you had in your college times. Then enters the Hostel rivalry - reminiscent in parts of "Jo Jeeta Wo Sikandar" and yet "Chichore" goes beyond. Yup it does - am tempted to tell you when - but better you discover it yourself. No wonders - only an IIT Mumbai graduate as Director could have portrayed all this so well.
The beauty of the movie is that it does not have a Hero - not even a heroine and yes no villain too. I mean all of them are not there, but they are there too. Remember, the matt finish. 😊
You easily start relating to one or the other character with ones that you had in your college times. Then enters the Hostel rivalry - reminiscent in parts of "Jo Jeeta Wo Sikandar" and yet "Chichore" goes beyond. Yup it does - am tempted to tell you when - but better you discover it yourself. No wonders - only an IIT Mumbai graduate as Director could have portrayed all this so well.
The beauty of the movie is that it does not have a Hero - not even a heroine and yes no villain too. I mean all of them are not there, but they are there too. Remember, the matt finish. 😊
The absence of a big star in the movie ensures that all characters are well developed properly introduced and very well used in the movie. And dare I say all of them played their characters rather superbly. Varun Sharma is in his full form - he is a natural at comedy. It's so effortless that he does not even appear like acting. Both "Fukrey" and "Fukrey Returns" were watchable only because of him (& Richa Chaddha). He makes this movie too a light happy one. After this movie he is added to the list of great talents that bollywood often ends up wasting in trivial roles.
Sushant is in his elements - looking cute, responsible, helpless, fighting and confident with an uncanny ease. It's probably his best performance till now. Naveen, tushar and tahir were new faces to me and were impressive in their roles. They put life in their characters despite the limited footage that they could have got in the scheme of things. Saharsh although not popular but was a known face and, as expected, he did a fine job as "Bevda". Pratik Babbar despite his expression less face does Ok. Even shraddha kapoor does justice to her limited role in the movie and If even I start liking her in the movie it goes as really high praise for the director. In a largely male cast she makes her presence felt by that girlish look.
Editing is so crisp that there does not appear to be even one second extra. The songs are not really hummable and are forgettable but they fit in the scheme of the movie quite well. One thing that makes a deep impact in the movie are the choice and design of the costumes. They just fit the time and environment painted in the movie. Dialogues so well written that they hit the right chord always. They add verve to the movie - there are many that will ring later but here are two that meant a world to me
"loser का टैग आदमी पहनता भी खुद है और उतारता भी खुद ही है" and
"अब जा - एक loser की तरह नहीं, एक फाइटर की तरह"
Direction is just perfect - Nitesh Tiwari has turned out another winner after Dangal. However he does better than dangal by delivering a powerful message in this one. He finally found a fine balance between the fine messaging of "chillar party" and great commercial mix of "dangal" in this movie.
"छिछोरे" has a "must watch" rating from me - so go book a ticket if you have not done it already. I have a few statutory disclosures to make - I may have associated more with the movie because of my years in the hostel of my engineering college & my hostel days at the IIML and also because I dropped my son at the door of an IIT just one and a half month back. And this does not give away the most important part of the story. Well actually I have not given away and have given away too. Remember the matt finish. 😊
Finally I left the movie hall with one regret that I did not watch this movie with my son sitting beside me in the hall. So, if you are a parent of a kid, who would soon be entering a college - don't forget to book his tickets too.
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