Atkan Chatkan film cast: Lydian Nadhaswaram, Sachin Chaudhary, Madhav, Yash Rane and Tamanna Dipak
Atkan Chatkan film director: Shiv Hare
Atkan Chatkan film score: One and a half stars
It’s 2020, twelve years since Slumdog Millionaire, however nonetheless, we want poverty porn as a medium to convey an ‘inspirational message’ and construct a story round hope. The dishevelled brown, dirt-streaked faces of the
youngsters in Atkan Chatkan depart nothing to the creativeness. The two-hour-fifteen minute movie is the directorial debut of Shiv Hare, and whereas the earnestness of the try was palpable within the trailer, the full-length function provides nothing extra to it.
Atkan Chatkan is the rags-to-riches story of Guddu, a gifted youngster prodigy who has an absent mom and an alcoholic father. He works at a tea stall however lives a life devoted to the pursuit of music. The opening sequence has him tuning to the sounds of kathha being blended in a brass pot in a paan store, wheat being husked, a finger ring tapping on a glass tumbler. He stumbles his solution to a motley group of different road youngsters they usually all type a band utilizing paraphernalia of road items — damaged pipes, plastic drums and so on. But in fact, he has to undergo a tricky starting — get actually down on his luck, and when the whole lot appeared misplaced, he's rescued.
Guddu and his band are ‘discovered’ by the principal of the Tansen Sangeet Mahavidyalaya in Jhansi, the place the movie is about. There is a prestigious music competitors on the playing cards, and the raggedy bunch are roped in to win it for the varsity. Throw in a proficient trainer who has a coronary heart of gold. This occurs within the first half of the movie, and by now, one can predict the second half. The second half is as tedious, hackneyed and predictable as the primary. For how lengthy can we use ‘even poor people are allowed to dream’ trope? All this is able to have been palatable, if solely quite a few folks had not tried it efficiently, many instances, years in the past.
Atkan Chatkan, a phrase in Hindi, which is usually used for alliteration functions, is meant to lend a zesty, youthful vibe. The movie is neither zestful nor completely happy. Contrived sequences, like that of the privileged youngsters feeling resentful in direction of the gifted poor ones may be very eighties, and does nothing however makes one surprise if the director was caught in a time warp. The youngsters are a delight to look at, even when they should regurgitate dialogues that don’t belong to this decade.
Lydian Nadhaswaram, who performs Guddu, is a gifted pianist in actual life. He has to play the function of a percussionist, which he tries valiantly. The percussion-heavy rating, courtesy Sivamani, the drummer, will get misplaced within the melodramatic screenplay. With a reputation like Sivamani, attributed because the music composer, and the movie being introduced by AR Rahman, expectations have been excessive on the musical finish, however even there one can't recall even one hummable ditty. Give Atkan Chatkan a miss. Listen to ‘the best of AR Rahman’ in your selection of music participant as a substitute.
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