Chatur Singh 2 Star Review

Minutes into the film and you curse your indiscretion. Do not choose this even over watching the Indian humiliation at the Oval. Packed with the ludicrous it is singularly aimed at your sensibility and sensitivity. Chatur Singh is a No Star affair. Picked from the Pathological wing of some story department, this film is rumoured to be a desi take off on Pink Panther. It is about the blundering cop ( actually the script cannot decide whether he is a cop or a detective) and film maker to match!!. With not a moment of respite you wonder whether the attempt was only to test the tolerance quotient of the viewer. Why would one choose a script that would question the IQ of a moron? Why would you make a film of a blundering cop with a whole bunch of jokers? Why would a film maker expend his time money energy and creative skill sets on a script that has no story, a narration that has no punch and a comedy that cannot force a laugh? Why would one want t make in a film now with Sanjay Dutt in romance mode and that too with Amesha Patel? Why would he then ensemble a motley crew of actors as fresh as last week’s newspaper.? Instead of asking these questions or attempting to answer them, just ask WHY. To talk about the film even in the most negative terms is to give this cop tale credibility. To state that it is about Chatur singh(Sanjay Dutt) a buffoon investigator smitten by Sonia (Amesha) the lady secretary of a slain Minister Y.Y. (Gulshan Grover) is to give credibility to the goings on- a proceedings that the Director is not willing to give himself. Even the idea of watching good locales at Cape Town is no bait. Some times one does not test a comedy by the regular standards and if it can make you laugh and if it can make you genuinely suspend you thinking faculty, the exercise is justified. How ever this time it is not so. Two minutes into the film and my domestic help suggested we walk out. You suddenly realise that the task of doing a film review can be a hazardous task . The blundering stars, script, lets in a sense of resigned fatigue and a complete indifference to anything celluloid. To every Film Institute, Chatur Singh Two star must be a part of the curriculum- it is about how not to make a film. Sanjay Dutt is a bigger disappointment than even the movie. Jaded beyond redemption, he has the approach of a school kid wanting to make an impression at a school Fancy dress event at the Primary School level, particularly one for the differently endowed. The one actor who could have enthused some credibility to this script is Govinda. Amesha Patel looks good. She seems the bright spot in the film. Imagine a film where Amesha is the bright spot and you have the warning of the film screaming at you. Caveat Emptor. L