A young lad, coerced into studying a subject he hates only because he is petrified of his father, ends his life. His classmates, all of whom face the same problem, take the fight to court.‘Chal Chalein’ gives us youngsters, who sue the parents and the state, and come out trumps, thanks to sympathetic lawyer (Mithun) .Good idea, amateurishly executed. There’s not one sympathetic mom or dad (they are all monsters, with one mother sending a little girl hungry to bed after cruelly punishing her). The teachers are uniformly incapable of helping the unhappy children.When they are not filing in and out of the lawyer’s chambers, the kids sing and dance. The one good thing about the film is its music: foot-tapping numbers intersperse the uninspiring action.

Chal Chalein tries to address the many ills in our education system, so full marks for trying. Unfortunately, it does a very poor job. The acting is mediocre, the production design is terrible, the storytelling is very average, while the direction is well, compelling. In the extensive courtroom sequences, every time a lawyer says, ‘please note this point your honour’, the film cuts to the learned Judge noting down the said point. Good, makes the story easy to follow.

Its curious how both the new releases this week, Chal Chalein and Teree Sang, deal with really important youth issues, and both end up in court for a final verdict. It seems that the parents and their children are unable to arrive at a decision by themselves. Or so the directors will have us believe. And this, in a country where everyone knows that any court case could take a few decades to resolve. Yet films keep showing us tidy, courtroom dramas which end in a jiffy and the audiences lap it up. To me it seems like an easy way out for the writer, just get a judge to deliver a few homilies and wrap up the story neatly. It would be far more challenging and real if directors resolved their protagonists’ dilemma without saying, chal chalein court.

Video Source: PDVD
Host: Zshare
Chapters: 7

part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
part 6
Alternate Download Link
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
Alternate Download Link
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
Alternate Download Link
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
Alternate Download Link
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
Alternate Download Link
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
Alternate Download Link
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
Alternate Download Link
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4