Chopsticks (film)

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Chopsticks
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Poster
Directed by Sachin Yardi
Written bySachin Yardi
Produced by Ashvini Yardi
Starring
Cinematography Kedar Gaekwad
Edited byUnnikrishnan P. P
Music byScore:
Pradeep Mukhopadhyay
Production
company
Viniyard Productions
Distributed by Netflix
Release date
  • 31 May 2019 (2019-05-31)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesEnglish
Hindi

Chopsticks is an Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Sachin Yardi and produced by Ashvini Yardi. It stars Abhay Deol and Mithila Palkar in the lead roles. [1] The film is a story of a woman who is referred to an enigmatic con man who agrees to help recover her stolen car from a thug for free, and how it brings about change in their lives. It was released on 31 May 2019 worldwide on Netflix. [2]

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Plot

Nirma Sahastrabuddhe (Mithila Palkar) is a Mandarin translator who works at a travel agency. One day she buys her own car, and is very happy and excited about it. On the very same night, her car gets stolen. She reports the theft to cops, but they don't help her. She meets a newly arrested thief, who tells her that those useless police will never find her car, and if she wants to find her car, it has to be within three days, or her car will either be transported out of the city or be taken apart for spare parts. He suggests the she visit a man who calls himself 'artist' for help, saying artist is a legendary conman and the only person who can recover her car within three days.

She meets artist (Abhay Deol) the next day, who is indeed a legendary conman, and is also passionate about cooking. Artist agrees to help her. Using his broad connections, he easily finds the whereabouts of the car. But when Nirma and artist arrive to collect her car, they find it has already been destroyed, leaving Nirma very sad.

However, they later find that artist's friend had cheated him and given him the wrong information. Nirma's car is not destroyed, but has instead been gifted to a gangster Faiyaz Bhai (Vijay Raaz). Artist does not want to try to take it from Faiyaz Bhai because he cannot take the risk of messing with Faiyaz Bhai, but Nirma manages to persuade him.

Faiyaz Bhai has a pet goat named Bahubali and loves him very much. Nirma and artist come up with the idea of kidnapping Bahubali, and ask Faiyaz Bhai to return her car as exchange. They later successfully carry out the plan of kidnapping Bahubali, and demand him to return the car as exchange.

Faiyaz Bhai shortly finds it's artist and Nirma that kidnapped Bahubali. Artist also learns they have been exposed, so he and Nirma run from Faiyaz Bhai's men. Later, Nirma returns Bahubali to Faiyaz Bhai and apologizes to him, saying she only wanted to have her car back, but later realized it was wrong because Fayaz Bhai thought of Bahubali as a child and must be very sad to lose him, just as sad as she was when she lost her car.

Faiyaz Bhai is very moved, and returns Nirma's car to her.

Cast

Marketing and release

A teaser of the film was released in the first week of May. It introduced the protagonist of the film. [2] The trailer was released later in May by Netflix. [3] [4] [5] Cast by Paragg Mehta.

Reception

Rohan Naahar of the Hindustan Times rates the film with two out of five stars. He feels it has muddled story which is low on comedy, and writes, "Like the inconvenient cutlery it is named after, there’s little reason to try it if there are alternatives to be found." [6] Shrishti Negi of the News18 also rates the film with two out of five stars and opines that the film never rose to its true potential. [7] Anupama Chopra of Film Companion opines that the humour inherent in a sitcom has not come out as the film scenes are preposterous. [8] Akash of High On Films wrote, "Despite having so much talent in the acting department, the script hardly seems to have any direction or a sense of purpose." [9] [10]

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