Direction – Manish Harishankar
Production – Sunill Khosla
Story – Manish Harishankar
Starring – Soha Ali Khan, Harsh Mayar, Seema Biswas, Mukesh Tiwari, Zakir Hussain, Suhas Sirsat, Lekh Tandon, Umesh Jagtop
Music – Abhijit Sameer & Sudeep Banerjee
Release Date – 26th Sep, 2014
Chaarfutiya Chokre is a Hindi drama thriller film directed by Manish Harishankar and produced by Sunill Khosla starring Soha Ali Khan, Harsh Mayar, Seema Biswas, Mukesh Tiwari, Zakir Hussain, Suhas Sirsat, Lekh Tandon, Umesh Jagtop.
The story is about Neha who comes from US and goals to build a school in a small village of Bihar. The story builds on how she solves the issues created by the politicians.
Neha returns from US and heads to a village in Bihar to build a school for children. Unfortunately politics and rampant atrocities are against this and trouble her with larger issues.
She bumps into 3 children as soon as she reaches the village who are criminals in villagers’ eyes. They bunk school and lured into a local crime gang. Neha is now all set to rescue these children with guns and many others like these three from the clutches of bad people. Her goal now is to bring peace to the village.
The heart of this film is at right place but the production values and preachy dialogues couldn’t help it much. Talented actors like Seema Biswas and Soha, poor editing, uninspired writing, and clichéd story telling made the film totally ineffective.
You can’t feel or appreciate the characters or the protagonists who bravely battle against this kind of system. The mood setting failed to match the mature roles by the actors. Also few scenes felt the need to be tensed and grimed but it couldn’t reach up to the mark.
Small kids carry guns easily and dodge the police. They even kill the police while the police say silly dialogues like the kids ran away and catching them is difficult in darkness. Even the climax is predictable and failed to make the impact. The sound recording issues are also seen here. If you observe the sound effects differ. For example, there’s a scene when a jeep passes over potholes on a watery lane. The pothole hitting sound comes first followed by jeep sound.
Verdict: The filmmaker’s intention to raise the awareness in rural audience related to children like child labor, etc. is appreciable but the execution could have been better and convincing.