FILM
REVIEW: CHEHRA (2005)
Director: Saurabh Shukla
Cast: Bipasha Basu, Dino Morea, Irrfan Khan and Preeti Jhangiani
Radio
Sargam Rating: 1/10
SYNOPSIS:
Megha (Bipasha Basu) is a college girl who likes her classmate Akash (Dino Morea). However she faces personal turmoil when her father attempts to kill her mentally challenged mother. In self defence, Megha kills her father and disappears from Akash’s life. Years later Akash becomes a psychiatrist. He attracts attention from Reena (Preeti Jhangiani) who he knew from college and now works in the same hospital as a doctor. She does not find enough time to express her love to him. Megha decides to return - married to Chandra Diwan (Irfan Khan), who is a drug addict, but very rich as well. Megha says that she is getting threatening calls and that somebody is trying to kill her. She does not know who it is. It is now concluded that Megha is insane and Diwan wants to bump her off. But during one such attempt, Akash saves her. Now Diwan tries a new stunt and takes all of them to Dubai. Not to participate in the shopping festival silly, but to kill them all.
CRITIQUE:
In an attempt to make a thriller like Raaz and with the same team, Saurabh Shukla goofs up. He is a talented film person and should not have made the film in the first place. Shukla makes multiple mistakes in his script and screenplay as well. One cannot help wonder whether this is the same man who co-wrote Satya.
The pairing of Dino after one hit (Raaz) and two flops (Gunaah and Ishq Hai Tumse) does not help the filmmaker in anyway. In fact he has wasted the abilities of Bipasha Basu who performs well, but isn’t captured well enough to look effective on screen. As a result the film falls flat. Anyway it is a woman dominated film and hence needed a very strong subject to hold it. The film fails first on the script level itself.
Bipasha, who has refused to work with John Abraham anymore, will find it difficult to get a good male co-star. Dino who was decent in Raaz due to the better quality of filmmaking, looks like a loser and performs like one as well. Irfan, who has been doing very good roles of late, should stop accepting such films now. As for Preeti Jhangiani, she should just pack up her bags and go home. She is not fit to be an actress at all.
A big mistake that everyone in the press noticed (SPOILER WARNING). When Megha calls up to tell Akash saying that she has killed her father and needs his help, his father who hears her after intercepting the call, gives an excuse that Akash is not in town. He should have called the police instead. Maybe he didn’t know the number. How many times should Indians be reminded that you need to dial 100 to get the police station?
Conclusion:
Please don’t commit the same mistake that we did… by watching Chehra.
Reviewed
by: Tony
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