Mayank Shekhar Movie Review: Chaalis Chaurasi

Director: Hriday Shetty

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Kay Kay Menon, Ravi Kishan, Atul Kulkarni

It's been over half a decade since the Rev. RR Patil, one among a stream of moralists of Indian politics, decided to close dance bars of Mumbai forever. It has taken years of Bollywood to record this fact. Movies continue to show the floors of the rainbow, where women in wedding dresses move to serve the men lustful imagination of harmless Indians. This makes for convenient adjustment for both the "item number" and the lair where the villains and the police are in our films. Except that does not quite exist.

The study also highlighted on the screen before us is the conductor bar. This is the cheesy which replaced dance bars in Mumbai, only to learn. I'm not sure how much more frequent. The gang of four in this movie, or at least one of them (Nasir) is especially dismayed by the quality of the male singer on stage and bored women, like dance bar girls, standing around collecting the customers' money.

Grab the microphone, hands it to his friend (Atul Kulkarni), who had moved to Mumbai to become a singer, probably in the 80's. The song is sung Hasan Jehangir Hawa Hawa, a second category of imports of Pakistan who had sold over 15 million copies in India. Those of my era will recall that the track had announced other terrorism in this country at that time, followed closely by TV Dhoop Kinare Pak Omar Sharief and stage farce Kishton Bakra Pe.

Anyway, Hawa Hawa is a hit with the gang party in the bar band. They dance joyfully to all the space, to threaten the crowd with guns, knowing they can even get away with murder. This is because they pretend to be cops. Nobody touches cops in Mumbai, or anywhere in the world.

These guys are driving a police van, which to be fair, seemed pretty easy to steal from a police station. The film takes its name plate of the truck. They are directed to a secluded hideout where a lot of money is stashed in place.

The group includes a driver, who was formerly an English teacher (Sir), a high-class pimp (Bobby), a drug dealer (Shakti), and a car thief, who is obsessed with the old Fiat Dukkar ( Pinto). They are obviously named after the titles of old films, Pinto, being Albert Pinto Ko Saeed Mirza Guss Kyon Aata Hai, a film that nobody I know has seen, but everyone has heard of! The allusion is essential. You must constantly remember that this is a movie after all and not all, in fact, no explanation by physics or logic applies.

It's not important how the gentlemen drank met, nor is it clear. They belong to the belly of the city, and through their individual introductions demonstrate how the hypocrisy of the white world, they engage with collar really is. On their way to the flight, they take turns wider an evening that promises to never end.

Here's the deal then. The drama is set in real time stretched. The gang has a common mission, a hold-up that can or can not go wrong. Each character in the group is crazy in its own unique way. Their names are stranger still. Blood-fest not irritate. The story is not entirely linear. Style determines the set-up. This pattern has generated a gazillion crime caper / thrillers in the past. Quentin Tarantino gave him the minimum cost in the high 90s.

These films are usually set in East London, or a dump in Los Angeles. It turns seedy Mumbai in the night, which is a pleasure to watch. One of the first films of this director, a failed plan (2004), was even vaguely raised Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Guy Ritchie. There he had Dino Morea, Rohit Roy, Sanjay Dutt, etc.

The stars Naseeruddin Shah (robust, bald, as the Bombay Boys "act), Kay Kay Menon, Ravi Kissen and Atul Kulkarni (in possibly his best performance ever). It is difficult to maintain such a joke for too long. This it reaches the most time. A sense of humor is never lost. It's the players, no doubt, that are credible ridiculous. So you really enjoy this tour for most of the game. which is saying something.