Chamku: Movie Review!

Finally, Dharmendra’s loving son Bobby Deol is back in the movie theatres with the Chamku: Movie Review!weirdly-titled ‘Chamku’ in order to revitalize his dropping career.

Featuring Bobby Deol, Priyanka Chopra, Irfaan Khan, Danny Denzongpa, Akhilendra Mishra, Ritesh Deshmukh, Rajpal Yadav, ‘Chamku’ is directed by Kabeer Kaushik and produced under the Deol family's Vijeyta Films banner.

While Monty Sharma is its music director, the lyrics have been provided by Sameer.

Chamku is not a comedy but a serious movie based on the idea of naxalism.

The story of movie revolves around the life of Chandrama Singh aka Chaman Varma aka Chamku (Bobby Deol), an innocent boy living an untroubled life. One day, his family is savagely killed, leaving him an orphan. Afterward, Chamku is taken into care by Naxalites, in Southern interiors of Bihar, who bring him up. They teach him in their own ways and turn him into a strong man who fears nothing in life, not even death.

After, he survives a police encounter, he is picked up by a covert Governmental program mutually conceived by RAW and Intelligence Bureau to carry out political assassinations.

Under instructions of the intelligence chief (Irrfan Khan), Chamku is on a persistent killing spree of anonymous individuals that gather up for the major useless sections of the movie. Suddenly viewers are informed that he also has a companion (Riteish Deshmukh, in his worst role ever) who adds no value to the movie, as he is killed before viewers could notify themselves with his role.

Moreover there’s a Marathi-muddled motherly figure (Sulbha Arya) but viewers aren’t sure who she’s linked to – Chamku or his chamcha.

In the meantime, a movie without a female lead looks implausible in Bollywood industry, regardless of her importance to the film story. So a compulsory prop is coerced in the screenplay in the form of a Montessori teacher (Priyanka Chopra) always wrapped in chiffon saris.

Luckily their romance is cut short but pitilessly viewers are believed to maintain a superfluous song in the deal. The heroine’s part begins on an ‘I love you’ note and closes with an ‘I am pregnant’ comment.

Back at work, Chamku finds the Thakur (Akhilendra Mishra) who murdered his father and wants to seek revenge. He follows the Thakur in a pub and opens fire publicly though the public there remains calm and looks to be more concerned in dancing with babes.

Some time later Irrfan pinches viewers wounds, boldly saying, “Every film needs a proper climax else the audience feels cheated”.

Chamku not only misses a proper climax but also unique categorizations, fights, overall chemistry, compositions or chronicles.

The film music is aching and the recurring encounter and false encounter series test viewers patience as they cringe in their seats with annoyance.

Bobby carries the same jaded expression all through the movie. For Riteish Deshmukh, its clearly one of those movies that viewers do as a favor for film industry friends. Irrfan Khan shows more screen presence in his 20-second Vodafone commercials. Arya Babbar is demoted to the rank of a junior artist. Danny dies before you notice him.

In end we can say that Chamku fails to shine.

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