Movie Review | Chhatriwali: Comedy loses its way in sex education – FilmyVoice
Bollywood has discovered a protected haven on the streaming platforms and is hell bent upon exploring themes that have been earlier both forbidden or had no takers. After the massive success of ‘Vicky Donor’, a movie about sperm donation, a variety of so-called taboo topics have discovered their method into mainstream narratives. ‘Shubh Mangal Savdhan’ on erectile dysfunction, ‘Padman’ on menstrual hygiene and ‘Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui’ on gender diversities, to call just a few.
Within the newest, ‘Chhatriwali’, the themes are male contraceptives and protected intercourse. No hurt in coping with a topic that will not be nonetheless mentioned brazenly in households, though everybody appears to pay attention to condoms in large and small cities alike.
Set in Karnal, Haryana, the movie is about Sanya Dhingra (Rakul), an unemployed chemistry whiz, who’s searching for a job and makes use of her expertise to struggle an vital social taboo by taking intercourse schooling lessons for younger individuals. The difficulty with such movies is that the filmmakers don’t actually know whether or not to make it a comedy or layer it with instructional messages. The outcome clearly is chaos!
Shying away from going the entire hog, the movie teeters on morality classes and making the feminine protagonist have her method as she propagates protected intercourse in order that undesirable pregnancies don’t trigger well being points amongst ladies.
After all there are certain to be issues galore, proper from her household to her boyfriend, whom she later marries, to her in-laws not liking it if she informed them that she works in a manufacturing facility manufacturing condoms. So she used all ways attainable to make sure that nobody will get to find out about her job. Now that’s fairly a problem, isn’t it? However Sanya manages it fairly effectively, till the purpose comes when she has to spill the beans.
Only some months again, one other movie, ‘Janhit Mein Jari’, had Nushratt Baruccha enjoying an analogous character. Each movies deal with nearly standard tiresome points; males not being comfy with protected intercourse, a feminine gross sales govt not revealing her job to her dad and mom and household, who throw a match after they do get to know what their favorite daughter or bahu is as much as, plus after all, innumerable classes on how these topics are to not be spoken instantly or straightforwardly, and so forth.
In a scene the place her jethani (Prachee Shah) falls sick because of a variety of miscarriages, the household dares not utter a phrase to the chauvinistic husband (Rajesh Tailang) concerning the mishap. He appears educated however has his method relating to fulfilling his sexual wishes unguarded. The movie does contact upon some related and oft-repeated dilemmas confronting married ladies in most middle-class households.
The movie thus turns into a tad boring and repetitive. What retains your curiosity alive is its lead, Rakul Preet, who tries to infuse vitality and at occasions sensitivity to her traces. She will get simply the help she wants from Vyas, who by no means lets us down. Each complement one another and take advantage of the stereotypical conditions with their earnestness. However as I stated earlier, each get restricted due to the predictable script.
The cinematography is satisfactory and there’s nothing to put in writing house concerning the movie’s music.
If you’re on a vacation and don’t have anything higher to do, you can watch this less-than-two-hour social/household drama, in the event you please!
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Film: Chhatriwali
Director: Tejas Deoskar
Solid: Rakul Preet Singh, Sumeet Vyas, Satish Kaushik, Dolly Ahluwalia, Rajesh Tailang
Streaming on: Zee 5
Period: 116 Minutes
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