Chaman Bahaar
Two Features On OTT You May Have Missed
Happi:By rescuing director Bhavna Talwar’s exquisite black-and-white homage to the great Charlie Chaplin, Zee5 has shown us what the streaming platform should actually be used for.A film like Happi comes once in a bluemoon. It is a daringly unconventional film and not the least unexpected from the very talented director Bhavna Talvar whose Dharm in 2007 featured Pankaj Kapoor in yet another career-defining role. Happi is a film that will go down in history as India’s only genuine tribute to the genius of Charlie Chaplin. Doing the homage(never an | Click Here...
Review of Netflix’s Chaman Bahaar: A Terribly Misfired Comedy.
Chaman Bahaar (Netflix) Starring Jitendra Kumar, Yogendra Tikku, Ritika Badiani Directed by Apurva Dhar Badgaiyyan Rating; * ½ Jitendra Kumar is fast becoming the on-screen face of backwater backwardness. Barely had we gotten over his last OTT outing Panchayat where he played a petty government official in the wilderness when now he shows up in another windswept counter-progressive town in Chattisgarh where he plays a paanwala ogling endlessly at a girl who moves into the house across the street. Same to shame. Don’t get him wrong. Billu is not a | Click Here...