Chashme Baddoor (2013 film)
| Chashme Baddoor | |
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| Directed by | David Dhawan |
| Written by | Sajid - Farhad (dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Renuka Kunzru |
| Story by | Sai Paranjpye |
| Starring | Ali Zafar Siddharth Taapsee Pannu Divyendu Sharma |
| Music by | Sajid-Wajid |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | ShowMaker Pictures |
Release date |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹20 crore (US$2.4 million)[1] |
| Box office | ₹19.2 crore (US$2.3 million) within the first week. |
Chashme Baddoor (English translation: Far be the evil eye) is a 2013 Bollywood adult comedy film directed by David Dhawan. The film stars Ali Zafar, Siddharth, Taapsee Pannu and Divyendu Sharma in lead roles. It released on April 5, 2013 and is a remake of the 1981 film of same name.[2] Despite commercial success, the film was a critical failure. Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave it 2.5 out of 5 while commenting "The new 'Chashme Baddoor' doesn't entirely work because Dhawan appears conflicted between taking the characters on a journey of his making, and sticking to the blueprint of the original film".[3] Vinayak Chakravorty of India Today rated it 2.5 out of 5 and feels, "The gags are simply not funny enough even if you are game to grant the licence of brainlessness".[4] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV awarded the film 2 out of 5 stars remarking, "Chashme Baddoor goes completely go off the rails in trying to eke out a laugh-a-minute ride by resorting to methods that one thought had gone out of currency with Govinda".[5]
Plot summary
Seema (Taapsee Pannu) is a young aged girl, who lives in Mumbai with her father (Anupam Kher). He being an active military officer, wants Seema to marry a similar man. He had arranged Seema's marriage to such people 5 times in a row, with Seema evading all five arrangements. Her father had now arranged her marriage for the sixth time, which Seema evades again, and escapes to Goa, to live with her uncle, her father's younger brother. Siddharth Kashyap (Ali Zafar), Jai (Siddharth) and Omkar (Divyendu Sharma) are three friends who live in a rented apartment. Miss Josephine (Lilette Dubey) is their landlady. All the three are frequent visitors to a cafe, owned by Joseph Furtado (Rishi Kapoor). The three owe huge amounts of money to Joseph and Josephine. One day, Omkar spots Seema taking a walk with her dog Alexander. Seduced, he calls his friend Jai. Both of them try to seduce her. One after the other, they break into Seema's house. Omkar tries to impress Seema with his poetry. Meanwhile, Seema mistakes him for a dog trainer and takes him straight into her bedroom. Omkar assumes Seema is interested him and starts browsing her bedroom while Seema prepares her dog. Unable to handle the dog, Omkar runs back home, where he tells everyone a completely different story. Omkar tells his friends that they had sex and were deeply in love. Jealous, Jai tries his luck. Jai breaks in, telling them he was a reputed film-maker. Upon realization, Seema calls her aunt, and makes her beat up Jai until he finally makes his run. Back home, Jai tells a similar story. Jai tells the other two that they two were deeply in love and were now dating. Siddharth, meanwhile, isn't interested in Seema.
However, one day, Siddharth (Sid) accidentally bumps into Seema, unaware of the fact that she is the girl Jai and Omkar failed to seduce. Both of them have a chat over lunch. Seema is impressed with Sid and asks him out on a date. Both of them get along very well and date frequently, until one day, Jai and Omkar spot them. Both of them, jealous of the fact that they are now dating, tell Sid that she isn't a good girl and ask him to break up with her. Seema, on the other hand is shocked about the fact that they are both Sid's friends. Sid pretends to beat up both his friends to impress Seema. Albeit the fight, Jai and Omkar continue to try and split Sid and Seema. One day, Josephine gets caught in heavy rain. Joseph too was present at the scene and helps out Josephine. Both of them were amused at the similarities between them. They both fall in love, but hesitate to start dating. Jai and Omkar try to make advantage of the situation. They assume that Joseph would stop asking them to pay the cafe bills and Josephine would let them stay at her apartment for free, if they helped unite them. In their many attempts, the somehow unite Joseph and Josephine. Despite that, they still dont forgive the three. So Jai and Omkar start lying about each of the two to the other. Jai tells Joseph that Josephine was a bad woman and drinks. Omkar tells Josephine that Joseph had dated multiple women in the past. They get the money they want. However, luckily, Joseph and Josephine do not break up as the soon realize that all the secrets told to them were lies.
Soon after that, Sid and Seema break up, following succesful attemts by Jai and Omkar. However, Sid is deeply hurt and starts drinking. One day, he attempts suicide. Realizing that they have mad a really bad mistake, Jai and Omkar try several times to unite Sid and Seema again. But they fail. One day finally, they go to Seema's house and meet her aunt. She comes up with a rather filmy solution and suggests Jai and Omkar to cosplay kidnappers and supposedly kidnap Seema. Then, the aunt goes to Sid and asks him to rescue Seema from the kidnappers. Finally, Sid and Seema start dating again. Seema's uncle, who had always been trying to marry Seema to a civilian, rather than a military officer, suggests Seema to marry Sid. At the same time, Seema's father turns up trying to take Seema back home. In order to solve the problem, Sid unites the brothers by telling them, that every military officer was once a civilian. Impressed, they both let Sid and Seema marry. With all problems solve, the story ends on a happy note.
Cast and Development
- Ali Zafar as Siddharth Kashyap
- Siddharth as Jai "Jomo" Lakhanpal
- Taapsee Pannu as "Seema"
- Divyendu Sharma as Omi
- Rishi Kapoor as Mr. Joseph Furtado
- Lilette Dubey as Miss Josephine
- Anupam Kher in double role
- Naeem Abro as Billy X
Development on the Chashme Baddoor remake began in 2006,[6] with Onir initially attached to the film.[7] David Dhawan was later announced to be directing the film,[8] and Sai Paranjpye, the director of the 1981 film, would be writing the script.[2] Dhawan commented that there would be some changes for the remake, such as the story getting updated to modern day and the remake having a larger budget than the 1981 film.[9] In 2011 Siddharth Narayan was confirmed as portraying Jomo, with Dhawan stating that it was difficult casting the role due to Ravi Baswani's death in 2010 and that he wanted to cas someone that could "do justice to his part".[10] Divyendu Sharma was later announced as performing Omi.[11] Filming took place in Goa, India in 2012,[12] with Ali Zafar becoming injured during a fight sequence with Ayaz Khan.[13]
Reception
It got an Aggregate Review Score of 3/5, at "Reviewbol" [14]Overall the fim received mixed reviews from critics.[15]Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film a rating of 3.5 out of 5 and said "An entertainer with dollops of humour and wild situations thrown in, this one's a laugh-riot".[16]Srijana Mitra Das of The Times of India awarded him 3.5 out of 5 stars ,noting,"It retains the original's madness, masti and movie-mania".[17] The Deccan Herald stated that the remake is " is far(ce) removed " from the original and that "Exclamation marks are the only punctuations in this seamless comedy of courtship played at an impossibly high octave, without getting shrill."[18] Emirates 24/7 also gave a positive review, stating that "Dhawan has upped his standard, just enough to warrant a trip to the cinemas".[19] Chashme Baddoor opened moderately good especially at multiplexes in North India which is considered nice[who?] with no face value[20] where it collected ₹4.75 crore (US$570,000) [21] on its first day. It grew further positively on second day and netted around ₹5.75 crore (US$690,000) nett.[22]The film netted very good[who?] figures of around ₹18.25 crore (US$2.2 million) over its first weekend.[1]
Soundtrack
The album was composed by the duo Sajid-Wajid and received a positive review from IBN Live.[23]
| Untitled | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack | Singer | Lyrics | Back up & Vocals | Remixed By |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Har Ek Friend Kamina Hota Hai | Sonu Nigam | Kausar Munir | - | - |
| Dhichkyaaon Doom Doom | Ali Zafar, Shreya Ghoshal | Nilesh Misra | - | - |
| Early Morning | Sonu Nigam | Jalees Sherwani | - | - |
| Ishq Mohallah | Wajid, Mika Singh | Nilesh Misra | - | - |
| Andha Ghoda Race Mein Dauda | Wajid, Ali Zafar | Jalees Sherwani | Neuman Pinto | - |
| Dhichkyaaon Doom Doom (Version 2) | Wajid, Shreya Ghoshal | Nilesh Misra | - | - |
| Early Morning (Remix) | Ali Zafar, Rap by "Limitless" | - | - | Ali Mustafa & Ali Zafar |
References
- ^ a b "Chasme Bhaddoor Has Good Weekend". Boxofficeindia.Com. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- ^ a b Chashme-baddoor/Article1-758638.aspx "David Dhawan to remake Chashme baddoor". Hindustan Times. October 18, 2011.
{{cite news}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ "David Dhawan's remake mauls and batters your memory of the original". Rajeev Masand. CNN-IBN.
- ^ "Vinayak Chakravorty Review". Vinayak Chakravorty. "India Today". Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ "Chashme Baddoor movie review". Saibal Chatterjee. "NDTV". Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ^ "Remake of 'Chashme Buddoor'?". India Glitz. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ "Onir denies signing Saregama film". Express India. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ "'That's how you make an entertainer' - David Dhawan on 'Rascals'". India Glitz. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ "Chashme Baddoor vs Zombie drama at Box Office this Friday". One India. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ "Siddharth in Chashme baddoor remake". The Times of India. July 1, 2011.
- ^ "Liquid in Chashme Baddoor remake". Times of India. December 3, 2011.
- ^ "Shooting for 'Chashme Baddoor' was like picnic: Taapsee". Times of India. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ "Ali Zafar hurt by Ayaz Khan". Times of India. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ "CHASHME BADDOOR REVIEWBOL BOX OFFICE LISTINGS". Reviewbol.
- ^ "CHASHME BADDOOR MOVIE REVIEW". Reviewgang.
- ^ "Taran Adarsh Review". Taran Adarsh. Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ "Chashme Baddoor Movie Review". Srijana Mitra Das. "The Times of India".
- ^ "'Chashme Baddoor' - Dum hai, Boss!". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ "Bollywood film review: Dhawan does unexpected with 'Chashme Baddoor'". Emirates 24/7. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ "Chasme Bhaddoor Has Fair Opening At Places". Boxofficeindia.Com. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ "Chasme Bhaddoor First Day Territorial Breakdown". Boxofficeindia.Com. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ "Chasme Bhaddoor Shows Good Growth On Saturday". Boxofficeindia.Com. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ "'Chashme Baddoor' Music Review: It makes you revisit the simple joys of 1980s". IBN Live. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
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