Chamku (2008)

A traumatized child becomes a Naxalite, and upon being captured must agree to become a police-assassin.

Director:

Kabeer Kaushik

Stars:

Bobby Deol, Priyanka Chopra, Irrfan Khan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Bobby Deol	...	Chandrama 'Chamku' Singh / Chaman Verma
Priyanka Chopra	...	Shubhi
Irrfan Khan	...	Vijayraj Kapur
Akhilendra Mishra	...	Thakur Mahendra Pratap Singh
Deepal Shaw	...	Red Salwar
Ninad Kamat	...	Lyndoh
Danny Denzongpa	...	Baba (as Danny Denzogpa)
Riteish Deshmukh	...	Arjun Tiwari (as Ritesh Deshmukh)
Rajpal Yadav	...	Hussain
Arya Babbar	...	Shreedhar
Mukesh Bhatt	...	Little Chamku's father
Sulabha Arya	...	Mrs. Tiwari 'Aai' (as Sulbha Arya)
Saifee	...	Holi song girl
Rosa Catalano	...	Trans song girl (as Rosa Catlano)
Ravi Jhankal	...	Ramji Mahto

Storyline

After witnessing his entire Bhagpur, Bihar-based family being killed by Thakur Mahendra Pratap Singh, a traumatized and injured Chandrama Singh wakes up in a hospital, is adopted by Naxal leader, Baba, and grows up to become one himself. Years later, after killing Ramji Mahto, the police kill Baba, while Chandrama is hospitalized after being shot. When he recovers, he is told by Officer Vijayraj Kapur that he must agree to become a police-assassin or be killed in an 'encounter'. Chandrama agrees and undergoes vigorous training in all combat aspects along with 29 others for over 3 years. He then re-locates to Mumbai, and lives with another assassin, Arjun Tiwari, his mother, and falls in love with a school-teacher, Shubhi, while carrying out a wide variety of assassinations against 'anti-nationals'. Chandrama's only goal is to locate and kill Mahendra while Arjun wants to retire and re-locate to his home-town in Sultanpur. With increasing pressure of marriage from a pregnant Shubhi, ...

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Plot Keywords:

male female relationship | spy | character name in title | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Musical | Romance | Thriller

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi Punjabi Marathi

Release Date:

29 August 2008 (India)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Vainteya, Vijayta Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Bobby Deol had high hopes for the film and was expecting it to win him acclaim and awards. The film ended up a box office disaster slowly starting his downfall in his career.

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Goofs

Priyanka Chopra plays the character of 'Shubhi', but this character-name is misspelled 'Subhi' against her father and mother's names.

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Soundtracks

Gola Gola Bhang Ka Gola
Written by Sameer
Composed by Monty Sharma
Performed by Amitrajit Bhattacharjee and Vaishali Samant
Courtesy of Super Cassettes Industries Limited (T-Series)

User Reviews

Could have been better

There was no hype about this movie and in all fairness is not too bad. But yes, it definitely could have been a lot better. The plot had lots of scope and potential.

Broadly the story can be divided into three chapters– the childhood, naxalite and the assassination agent. IMO – either it should have been a linear progression as opposed to jumping back-and-forth in the narrative or simply trimmed it into two chapters. BTW – the childhood has shades of Agneepath.

Bobby Deol:: Simply put - he attempts Jr. B of Sarkar. The restrained performance doesn't suit him – yet. It was clearly evident that it was forced down his throat. Halo-effect perhaps? Priyanka:: Very average performance. The role was similar to Dimple Kapadia's in Arjun.

Ritiesh Deshmukh: A very-very special appearance kind of role.

Danny:: Should have given more screen time to develop his character and the basis of his ideology. In terms of performance, there wasn't anything special to mention about.

Irfan Khan:: Very impressive considering the fact that the role demanded various shades to it and effectively strikes a fine balance between his duty and personal agenda.

Songs were unwarranted.