Chillar Party | Movie Review

Cast: Irrfan Khan, Sanath Menon, Rohan Grover, Naman Jain, Aarav Khanna, Vishesh Tiwari, Chinmai Chandranshuh, Vedant Desai and many more kids

 

Direction: Vikas Behl, Nitesh Tiwari

 

Genre: Drama

 

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

Story: A gang of school kids see themselves as the local dadas of their neighbourhood. Their biggest bugbear is that they always lose the cricket match while playing against the rival team. Things turn for the better when the new orphaned car wash boy gives them their first victory. But before they can savour their victory, another threat looms large. The local politician is determined to do away with all street dogs from Mumbai, which means the car wash boy will have to give up his pet dog. Can the gang save their best friend's pet?

Movie Review: What can you say about a film where the first half is spent with a bunch of kids trying to trouble a poor kid and his dog and the entire second half has them trying to save the dog from the infamous dog van.

Okay, the kids are occasionally cute and give you some moments here and there to smile. Specially when they begin to adopt the style and the language of the tapori kid and shock their parents completely. But after a point all their meanness and sweetness ceases to entertain. On the contrary, the total lack of a story line seriously tests your patience.

Wonder how restless kids will watch Chillar Party? Filmmakers need to realize Indian tweens are extremely smart and fed on a regular diet of Cartoon Network and roller-coaster Hollywood kiddie's flicks. You got to have a story, adventure drama and pace. Or else....

Salman Khan to co-produce ‘Chillar Party’

Salman Khan has decided to co-produce the children’s film Chillar Party along with UTV.

Chillar Party follows the life of a group of children who stand up against a corrupt politician to save a dog.

Originally the children movie was solely produced by UTV but after Salman saw the movie he fell in love with the movie and decided to be associated with it. As Salman says, "It is the most beautiful film that I have ever seen. All dog-lovers should see it, all people who hate dogs should see it, all parents and children should go for it."

Furthermore, Salman Khan has stated that all the money that he makes from the film will go to the Being Human charitable trust.

"It’s an incredible film. When I saw it, I decided to attach myself to it because its such an amazing film that I thought that Being Human and Salman Khan had to be a part of it," added Salman.

Most recently, Ranbir Kapoor shot for a full-on masti song for the children’s film. In the song, Ranbir himself dresses up as a tapori. The look is inspired from his dad Rishi Kapoor’s character Akbar in the yesteryear blockbuster Amar Akbar Anthony.

'Chillar Party' is co-directed by debutants Vikas Bahl and Nitesh Tiwary and will release on July 8th.

Ranbir Kapoor follows Salman-Akshay

Like Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar who are known for sitting on the edit of their films, even Ranbir sits on edit of his item song.

Ranbir Kapoor is a bundle of nerves these days! The sexy bachelor who is all geared up for his item number in the upcoming film Chillar Party , is getting pre-release jitters and is getting deeply involved with the edit sessions to leave no stone unturned to perfect the final cut.

This is for the first time that Ranbir Kapoor will be seen doing an item number. It is heard that although Ranbir is very happy with the final dance number choreographed by Bosco Caesar, he wants to sit and watch the song once again, this time under full scrutiny, and make sure that every little move is impeccable and fun to watch. "Ranbir is taking all this pain to make sure that his first item number doesn't meet any glitches and wins him the audience's applauds", says a unit-hand from the film.

Interestingly, Ranbir will be seen shaking a leg or two as a 'Tapori' in the song, where he will be seen dancing for the kids. In fact Ranbir is dedicating this dance number of Chillar Party to father Rishi Kapoor's character in Amar Akbar Anthony and although the genre of this song is completely different with kids involved as well, Ranbir doesn't want his first item song to be included in the league of the current sensation created by Deepika and Katrina but instead in the league of the yesteryears legends, Jeetendra and Mithun.

Ranbir’s item no. tribute to father Rishi

The actor reprises the look of Rishi Kapoor's legendary character Akbar from the superhit film 'Amar Akbar Anthony', in an item song.

Ranbir Kapoor is the latest item boy in town. The actor recently shot for an item song with a gang of kids for the film ' Chiller Party ' produced by UTV Spot Boy. However, what's interesting is the fact that the song is actually Ranbir's tribute to his father, Rishi Kapoor.

Apparently, Ranbir Kapoor has been in love with his father's film Amar Akbar Anthony since he was a kid himself. The film showcased Rishi Kapoor in the character of Akbar that featured him in a very different look. This tapori look had created an impression in Ranbir's mind when he was growing up.

"When Ranbir was approached with the idea of an item song with kids in a similar fashion, donning the same look as his father, he immediately agreed and decided to give a tribute to his father", says a source associated with the film. "Like Rishi Kapoor, Ranbir dons the look of a tapoori , with evident kajal in his eyes, a cupped tirchi topi on his head, a thin moustache and a real pan in his mouth making his lips go deep red".

" Chillar Party is a kid's film that Ranbir had fallen in love with, the moment he saw it", adds the source. "Junior Kapoor felt that the kids would love this look on him and it eventually did work. The kids were amazed to see him in that attire. They all ran towards him and gave him a big bear hug".

The co-directors of the film Vikas Bahl and Nitesh Tiwari were extremely happy to have Ranbir do this interesting item song with the kid gang of Chillar Party . They expressed, "As an actor, Ranbir keeps improvising. And when it came to the 'inspired' look in the song, he was prompt to come up with the idea to have a similar kind of head-gear, moustache and pan chewing look as his father in Amar Akbar Anthony ."