What do you call a movie that should not be longer than 1 hour 30 minutes but is stretched to 2 hours 15 minutes ? the answer is simple its called GHANNNNNNNNNCHAKAR !
Ghanchakkar is a story of Sanjay (Emraan Hashmi) who along with his accomplices Pandit(Rajesh Sharma)& Idris(namit Das) steal a bank for Rs. 35 crore very easily and without any difficulties. They decide to share their profit 3 months later since they do not want to give any clues to Police about the money so they decide that Sanjay should keep the cas as he is the only one who owns a house and has a wife(Vidya Balan). 3 months later when Pandit calls Sanjay to share the money, Sanjay informs that he has lost his memory and does not remember anything about it. What follows is a long dragging story about Is Sanjay lying or he really lost his memory ? do they find the money or not ? who has the money ? And what happened to Sanjay ?
Ghanchakkar is a story where plot sounds like a international level content but miserably fails to deliver, a very different story but seems like the director just Raj Kumar Gupta wanted to show a lot but could not live upto it.
Emraan Hashmi plays Sanju a semi-Ghajini, if I may call him so, does a decent part in the second part with his frustration showing about the loss of his memory. In the first half he’s simple as a frustrated Marathi husband of a over the top Punjabi wife. On and all, though Emraan Hashmi has not done a superb job but he’s not bad either.
Vidya Balan plays an over the top Punjabi wife who is a total drama queen and lives the life according to Femina, Vogue & Elle Magazine. Vidya is too loud and after seeing her in roles like Kahani, Paa & No One Killed Jessica the expectations are too high. But this time she fails to deliver, maybe the character she plays does not have much scope in the movie. Caution Vidya ! select your roles wisely like you always did, don’t over gamble.
Rajesh Sharma is a very seasoned actor and has wowed us by his various performances in Khosla Ka Ghosla, Love Shuv Te Chicken Khurana, Dirty Picture & Special 26 are the quite memorables one. As Panditji, Rajesh Sharma plays a pivotal character which is quite believable and par excellence. Panditji is a crook but he is not those typical type of a crook he is something different. Full marks to Rajesh Sharma for playing Panditji.
Namit Das is too cute, although he’s playing a grey shade but you can’t stop loving his cuteness and his comic shades. he needed this role badly after a great performance in Wake Up Sid and a passable performance in Lafangey Parindey. A few scenes are hilarious , like the whole bank loot is super funny especially with the funny masks of Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra & Utpal Dutt,one more when they are on the dining table and Idris asks “yeh fried rice hai ?” another one when Idris is talking to Chanda on the phone and they play Doctor Doctor is a laugh riot.
On the whole with a story that could have been an engaging and twisty suspense thriller with a touch of humour, GHANCHAKKAR gets repetitive and boring after the four characters are introduced. Everything’s fine till Emraan, Rajesh and Namit pull off the heist, but soon after that Fizzzz the story goes for a toss and revolves around the same thing again and again. Ideally, the film should’ve become an edge of the seat thriller soon after the duo Pandit & Idris come back to take their share, but what follows is plain tedious repetitiveness. To make matters worse, the episodes are unexciting, forcefully funny and monotonous. Avoid or wait for it to come on some TV channel and watch it for Free … Don’t Spend !
My Rating 2/5 (1 for A good plot, which was eventually killed and 1 for a few funny moments here and there)
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