Review of Chashme Baddoor

Release date – 5'th April 2013

One Line which describes the film – 

"Make new films ,but don't touch the old , Because new is silver old is gold "

Best  Dialogue – ' If you  can't change the girl , change the girl.'

Genre – Romance / Comedy
 
Story - Sai Paranjpye 

Sajid - Farhad (dialogues)

Music – Sajid-Wajid

Producer -  Viacom 18 Motion Pictures

Direction - David Dhawan 

Cast - Ali Zafar , Siddharth , Taapsee Pannu , Divyendu Sharma

Budget –  20 crores 

The film is a remake  of the 1981 Chasme Buddoor . Though the plot is same the screenplay has been modified to suit the current generation who prefers a loud Honey Singh /Mika song over a soulful Kishore Kumar melody .

Taapse , the pretty girl who lives next door and is the center of attention of the three guys  is good. Her carefree attitude and dressing style reminds us of characters played by Kajol and Preity Zinta in their earlier films .Though her repetitive dialogue "Dum hai Boss " is as irritating as the Dollar Club 'Fit hai Boss' ad.

Siddharth as the wanna be actor ,steals the show with his acting and facial expressions. When he dances to the hit song. 'What is mobile number, what is your smile number '  he manages to perfectly copy Govinda's body language . 

Divyendu (earlier seen in Pyar Ka Punchnama ) with his perfect comedy timing adds some life to the lame PJ's like ' Bhari mehfil main maine sher maara, Bhari mehfil main maine sher maara...Aur sherni vidhwa ho gayi. In a scene he even describes  Lillette Dubey as a dhaki hui Mallika Sherawat which is hilarious .

Ali Jafar fails to match Siddharth and Divyendu 's acting skills but makes up with his good looks and cute looks. He is the only character who is closest to the old film.

The 'Chamko' detergent , which played an important part in the original film is added in a scene  which could have been totally edited . There are several songs which randomly appear and slow down the speed of the film. 

Chasme Bhaddoor has made 25 crores till now and has been declared a hit . It must be a relief for David Dhawan as his last film Rascals was a big disaster.

In a line ,in keeping in trend with the current times where sugar has been replaced by 'sugar-free' , the 1980's simple and innocent romance has been down graded into a  film full of double meaning already heard jokes and playboy bikini posters . 

Time pass  .

Rank - 12 ( Out of the 22 films I have seen in 2013 )