Much Ado about nothing. Review on Ghanchakkar

Review of ‘Ghanchakkar’ :- The promos of this film are made up of some funny sounding songs interspersed with collage of colours. The film turned out to be as expected as far as colours go, but the plot turned out to be a dithering between wannabe funny film for most of the while, and then a transmutation into a thriller.

This ambivalence of the director leaves the viewer confused, wherein he doesn’t know what emotion to feel towards the end. This end is precisely, what I thought to be a saving grace in an otherwise lukewarm plot.

The acting by the lead pair while tempered gets repetitive, and hence the viewer develops little empathy for them despite the long screen time. The gags are second rate and elicit only a smile or a occasional chuckle at most. The songs cease to become hindrance to the plot as they are merged in the background score but the plot gains little from this nicety.

Call it the over expectation or the ‘Fukrey’ effect, but I was unmoved and not humored and despite the edgy stuff in last fifteen minutes or so I’d call it a case of ‘Much ado about nothing’. 3 stars