![]() ![]() This alone is worth the admission (which is cheaper because being a Gujarati film, Chhello Divas is tax-free). But a sizeable majority of the sequences are genuinely funny and laugh-inducing. Some of these tracks fall flat on their face, some start off as funny but get stretched a tad too long. The flashbacks are also more of standalone comedy tracks that don’t necessarily merge into one another all the time. The film would have been pretty much the same had it been a linear storyline. The forward-backward mode didn’t quite work for me. The storytelling is Saathiya-esque (or should I say, Alaipayuthey-esque): a series of flashbacks strung together by a grim present set in a hospital waiting room. The characterisation, the plot devices and the dialogues everything is quintessentially urban and Gujarati.Īlthough the synopsis states that this is a story of 8 friends, the actual film revolves more around the characters of Nick (Yash Soni), Vicky (Malhar Thakkar), Pooja (Janki Bodiwala), Loy (Vadodara boy Mitra Gadhvi) and Nisha (Kinjal Rajpriya). I am happy to report that ‘Chhello Divas’ (Last Day), directed by Krishnadev Yagnik, is not one such film.Ĭhhello Divas has been consistently (and emphatically) promoted for what it is – an urban Gujarati film about 8 college students who are about to embark into the ‘real world’. ![]() Some of them like Bey Yaar have even ‘borrowed’ plot lines from ‘Khosla ka Ghosla’ quite generously. One of the complaints that I’ve had with new-age Gujarati films has been that they try too hard to be a Hindi film with regional dialogues. The quality of films made since then has been quite refreshing and, if box office records are to be believed, they’ve been successful as well. Then a few years back, a new breed of Gujarati film makers stumbled upon a new voice – that of an urban Gujarati youth. I’m sure that many Gujaratis found some guilty pleasure in watching these, but I could never identify with them. This is probably because for a very long time Gujarati films lived in a parallel universe where the heroines dressed in gravity-defying ‘chania cholis’ and heroes clad in ‘kedios’ started every song with a “heeeyyyyy”. For someone who has lived in Gujarat all his life, I have not watched too many Gujarati films. ![]()
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