Review: Chaalaang
Chaalaang is the classic feel good movie to be watched on a Sunday evening with the family around. Clean and largely expletive free, it works for an extremely strong cast to boot and a storyline though wobbly in some places makes up with the right screen time and good editing. A little over 2 hours the run time is just enough to keep you glued to the seat. Anything more than this it would have been like the other recent release; Ludo; where the extra 20-30 minutes from the middle drags the film down. Chaalang has an array of talent to boot. There is Saurabh Shukla, Satish Kaushik, Illa Arun, Jatin Sarna and of course Zeeshan Ayub Quadri (who cowrites the film too). Then there is a running chemistry of Hansal Mehta and Rajkumar Rao who have had an history of Omerta, Aligarh, Citylights... together. The weight of these actors and their chemistry wears down heavily on the frames of Nushrat Bharucha for whom after a time carrying it gets difficult and she seems to pale out. Chaalang h...