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Starring:
Naseeruddin Shah, Atul Kulkarni, Kay Kay Menon, Ravi
Kissen, Shweta Bhardwaj, Rajesh Sharma
Direction: Hriday Shetty
Mere presence of Naseeruddin
Shah, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni and Ravi Kishan in a
film had raised expectations of high tension
entertainment, and it does, albeit to some extent.
Chaalis Chaurasi has a talented cast of this foursome,
who by their sheer brilliance save the otherwise sloppy
script.
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The raid is carried out and
almost all the real cops get decimated. So do the
henchmen of the wanted criminal. Now it is just the
single cop, a wanted criminal and this foursome. Things
get messed up here and it is fun too, especially in the
second half of the film.
The characters are well defined and the weirdest one is
that of Albert played by Kay Kay Menon. This Albers is a
car thief who steals and destroys the Fiat cars in
Mumbai. Why? Because he wants to be the only owner of a
Fiat car in the city.
Cast:
Naseeruddin Shah - Pankaj Suri - Sir
Atul Kulkarni - Bhaskar Sardesai - Bobby
Kay Kay Menon - Albert Pinto - Pinto
Ravi Kissen - Shakti Chinappa - Shakti
Shweta Bhardwaj
Rajesh Sharma
Zakir Hussain
Manoj Pahwa
Reetu Jain
Arbaaz Ali Khan
Yuri Suri
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Albert (Kay Kay Menon) is a car thief, Bobby (Atul
Kulkarni) is a bar singer, Shakti (Ravi Kishan) is a drug
peddler and Pankaj (Naseeruddin Shah) a former English
professor fallen on hard times happen to come together.
Pankaj aka Sir comes up with a plan to rob Rs. 20 crores.
He knows the place, and has some information about two men
guarding it. They decide pull off a robbery in the guise
of police.
To present yourselves as cops, you have to act like one
and even think like a cop.
To a certain extent they succeed, but trouble brews when
they come across real cops. The real cops are out to raid
a hotel some where in the outskirts of the city. A wanted
criminal is hiding somewhere in the hotel. The back up
vehicle could not reach there. So the real cop orders this
foursome to be a part of the raid and capture the wanted
criminal. This operation could invoke firing from the
other side, but are this foursome ready for it?
One thing stands out is that each of the character’s
profile is shown in flash backs off and on. This
interesting concept is a nice story which when proceeds,
provides funny twists and twirls in the plot.
Naseeruddin Shah is top notch as a bumbling cop, Ravi
Kishan looks typical as a drug peddler, and Atul Kulkarni
as the wanna be singer also dreams of starting a high
class escort agency.
Chaalis Chauraasi is the name of this film, as this
foursome carry out their task of robbery in this police
van having license number as 4084.
- Aniz Filmvala
Credits & Crew:
Banner - MAASK Entertainment Pvt Ltd, Filament Glo
India Pvt. Ltd
Producers - Anuya Mhaiskar, Sachin Awasthee, Uday Shetty
Story Writers - Vinay, Yash
Background Music - Sanjay Chowdhury
Music Director - Lalit Pandit, Vishal Rajan
Director - Hriday Shetty
Lyricist - Sandeep Srivastava, Hasan Jahangir, Vishal
Rajan
Editor - Bunty Nagi
Cinematography - Najeeb Khan
Action - Abbas Ali Moghul
Screenplay / Dialogues - Vinay, Yash
Sound - Alok De, Kunal Sharma
Choreographer - Piyush Panchal
Costume Designer - Shefalina
Publicity - Rahi Communications
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