Chhalaang Movie Review

Hansal Mehta and Rajkummar Rao constitute one of Hindi cinemas most potent artistic collaborations.

They should be thankful to the writers–Aseem Arora, Luv Ranjan and Zeeshan Quadari€”who have used typical Bollywood tropes and have also gone overboard at some crucial junctures, but maintained high entertainment quotient…

Chhalaang, on the face of it, hits the right buttons, gender parity included, but it all seems more manufactured than organic when a man like Montu is handed a long rope and held up as a paragon of purposeful…

In this formulaic underdog tale, a doltish physical education teacher of a small town school in Haryana challenges his more qualified rival and demotion causer to a competition and prove his worth in everyone’s eyes.

On the whole, director Hansal Mehta gets the setting quite right with a lot of detailing. But with more conviction in execution and writing, this one could’ve hit it out of the park.

Mehta, whose terrific web series Scam 1992 is still making waves, displays a knack of old-fashioned story-telling in this one, which reminds you of Dangal in some of its elements: patriarchal Haryana, feisty young women, and the…