Chocolate........

Guys! Just watched Chocolate ( the movie) for the 2nd time today & I’d love to talk quite a bit about it, coz after a long time a movie has made me think quite a bit. Actually when its trailers hit the stands, I thought it to be another of those sick bollywood movies with a sepia background to it, which would lose its way just trying to imitate hollywood & not being itself. But hey, it sprung up a few surprises, & so much so that when I came out of the theatre I was really confused to decide if I’d liked the movie or not.

The suspense in the film is very desi but what makes it special is that the climax betrays all imaginations & this is one thing that the Indian viewers just can’t digest. Well I’ve heard few people praising the concept but when I say ‘few’, they are strictly ‘FEW’. A few days back I came across a review of the movie in a news channel castigating the movie like anything & showing the public getting out of theatres writing Chocolate off as if it were a crime to make such a movie in India. Today in the theatre too I heard people whispering at the end that this is just not cool enough!

Well, I would not reveal the storyline here, but here the real hero is outwitted by the director with the help of a highly underrated actor Irrfan Khan. ‘Why’ is secondary but ‘How’ is important. This thing probably doesn’t get into the system of the movie goers. How can a hero be defeated in a Hindi feature film? Maybe a larger faction of people feel duped or cheated. As if this is not enough, the plot gets too complex midway & concentration is required to grasp the entire script & this makes the viewer impatient. Add to these the shooting unfriendly town of London & the nothing too picturesque in the movie to soothe the eyes (save the sexy Tanushree Dutta & her revealing apparels). So that’s the perfect recipe to write off the hard work of a creative mind.

But I still salute the Director & even if I’m said that it is inspired from a Hollywood thriller, I still call it to be creative because of his courage to go ahead with the plot. The suspense which has been garnished differently steals the show. A couple of extremely talented actors in Anil Kapoor & Irrfan Khan come to the limelight & keep feeding you with some food for thought, throughout the 2 ½ hours film. I have always liked films that are close to real life & are pragmatic enough to be believed, but guess what! Chocolate is no way close to being associated with real life, still it has so successfully attracted my attention, that I was forced to see it twice in the theatre.

I am certainly not one of those who keeps feeling that Hollywood movies are better their bollywood counterparts, in fact I myself don’t watch too many English movies but I still believe that there’s a lot of scope for matured subjects to be brought up in our own desi style & a newness in the field of Hindi cinema must spring up thereby giving it a facelift. What Chocolate does is that, it helps us to think away from the mainstream. Chocolate gives us a break from the highly predictable high voltage dramas & tells us about something that might not exist at all & more importantly, as I said ‘How’ it might not exist at all …

I warn you that the movie Chocolate might be just a bit more confusing than this blog of mine, but believe me if you are looking for something that is new & are really ready to accept the anti-climax type of a climax then go & watch Chocolate. If it’s a let down then please tell me in which way it let u down otherwise don’t forget to thank me for the advise to watch it.