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Chehre movie online watch is a 2021 Hindi-language mystery thriller film directed by Rumy Jafry with production by Anand Pandit Motion Pictures and Saraswati Entertainment Private Limited starring Amitabh Bachchan and Emraan Hashmi as leads.
Chehre film featuring Krystle D’Souza, Rhea Chakraborty, Siddhanth Kapoor, Annu Kapoor, Dhritiman Chatterjee and Raghubir Yadav in other pivotal roles sees Bachchan playing a lawyer, while Hashmi a business tycoon.
Chehre film was announced on 11 April 2019 and filming began on 10 May 2019. It was scheduled for worldwide release on 17 July 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of March 2021, the release date of the film has been postponed due to a rise in COVID-19 cases. Finally, the film was released in theatres on 27 August 2021.
Chehre movie cast
| Directed by | Rumy Jafry |
|---|---|
| Written by | Screenplay and Dialogues: Ranjit Kapoor Rumy Jafry |
| Story by | Ranjit Kapoor |
| Produced by | Anand Pandit |
| Starring | Amitabh Bachchan, Emraan Hashmi |
| Cinematography | Binod Pradhan |
| Production companies | Anand Pandit Motion Pictures Saraswati Entertainment Private Limited |
| Distributed by | Pen Marudhar Entertainment |
| Release date | 27 August 2021 |
| Running time | 139 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
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Chehre: Official Trailer | Amitabh Bachchan, Emraan Hashmi | Rumy J | Anand Pandit | 27th August 21
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Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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80-year-old man with a penchant for a real-life game with his group of friends. They conduct a mock trial and decide if justice has been served, if not they make sure justice has been served.
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- Amitabh Bachchan as Lateef Zaidi
- Emraan Hashmi as Sameer Mehra
- Krystle D’Souza as Natasha Oswal
- Rhea Chakraborty as Aana
- Siddhanth Kapoor as Joe
- Annu Kapoor as Paramjeet Singh Bhuller
- Samir Soni as G. S. Oswal
- Alexx O’Nell as Richard
- Dhritiman Chatterjee as Justice Jagdish Acharya
- Raghubir Yadav as Hariya Jatav
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Filming began on 10 May 2019. The first schedule ended on 16 June with a fourteen-minute-long shot by Bachchan in one go. Kriti Kharbanda was initially selected to star in the film but left due to a fallout with the makers. She was replaced by Krystle D’Souza after Mouni Roy and Ankita Lokhande declined the role.
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The music of the Chehre film was composed by Vishal–Shekhar and Gourov Dasgupta while lyrics were written by Farhan Memon and Rumy Jafry.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Rang Dariya” | Farhan Menon | Gourov Dasgupta | Yasser Desai | 4:56 |
| 2. | “Chehre – Title Track” | Rumy Jafry | Vishal–Shekhar | Amitabhd Bachchan | 3:07 |
| 3. | “Rang Dariya” (Reprise) | Farhan Menon | Gourov Dasgupta | Raj Barman | 4:57 |
| 4. | “Chehre – Title Track” (Reprise) | Rumy Jafry | Vishal–Shekhar | Shekhar Ravjiani | 3:03 |
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Chehre film was announced on 11 April 2019 and filming began on 10 May 2019. It was scheduled for worldwide release on 17 July 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of March 2021, the release date of the film has been postponed due to a rise in COVID-19 cases. Finally, the film Chehre was released in theatres on 27 August 2021.
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our superannuated court officials – the men congregate in an ex- judge’s sprawling bungalow in a remote, sparsely populated hill station some 300 kilometers from Delhi – arrogate to themselves the authority to play games with the law and an unsuspecting guest. The result is a whiny, preachy film that begins to feel like a terrible trudge even before it has run one-fourth of its course.
On a day of relentless snowfall, when visibility is very low and the road is slippery, an ad agency head walks into a trap laid by the wizened quartet. The stranded wayfarer drops his car keys as he strides towards the house that stands in splendid isolation on an elevated perch. You instantly know the guy is walking into big trouble. Thus begins Chehre, as outlandish a chamber drama as any you will ever see.
Helmed by Rumy Jafry and written by the director in collaboration with Ranjit Kapoor, Chehre is a verbose and vacuous film trapped in a hokey construct designed to trot out ho-hum notions about crime and culpability. A cast of seasoned actors is reduced to hamming their way through an enervating drama that is all vainglorious bluster.
The law in our country, says erstwhile public prosecutor Lateef Zaidi (Amitabh Bachchan), does not deliver justice, it only delivers verdicts. In the company of retired Justice Jagdeep Acharya (Dhritiman Chatterjee) and former defense counsel Paramjeet Singh Bhullar (Annu Kapoor), his pals for decades, he takes upon himself the task of setting things right and proceeds to make mincemeat of logic.
The trio has a flute-playing Hariya Jatav (Raghubir Yadav) for company. The unassuming man not only completes the fearsome foursome, but he also stands by grinning and grimacing by turns, suggesting in the bargain that there is much more to him than he is willing to let on.
The young man who is caught in the muddle is Sameer Mehra (Emraan Hashmi), who, after he has downed a peg of rum and a glass of sangria, is led to believe that he is in a harmless fireside game. The encounter takes an ominous turn as an incident from his past is dug up and made an integral part of the battle of wits that Zaidi and his canny cohorts have devised for the guest who knows not what he has let himself into.
There are two other characters in the house – a mysterious housekeeper (Rhea Chakraborty) and a mute factotum (Siddhant Kapoor). Both have backstories but neither of them has any chance of evolving into characters of substance. That is not what they are here to do. They are mere appendages. The girl cackles like a hen when she receives a surprise gift from the guest. The guy glowers threateningly at the man in the dock when the occasion demands.
A large chunk of Chehre, supposedly set in the hills of north India, has been filmed in Poland. The mansion in which the action – or, to be precise, the lack thereof – takes place is cavernous enough to conceal many secrets. It is littered with telltale signs to suggest that Sameer Mehra isn’t the first man that the four have toyed with, nor will he be the last.
The snowfall, believe it or not, is accompanied by thunder and lightning. The strange weather conditions create the atmospherics for all the noise made as Sameer struggles in the faux courtroom to defend himself against the barrage of accusations hurled at him. As he sinks into the quagmire, he isn’t alone. He takes the film along with him, aided by the non-stop prattle of the self-appointed judicial pontiff hell-bent on proving his point.
Perhaps aware that it has got ahead of itself by a fair distance with its mock trial, the film looks for tenuous links with real-life incidents – a gangrape, acid attacks, terrorism, a surgical strike (yes, that too, just in case you miss the connection between the rule of law and patriotic fervor) – to establish why Lateef Zaidi is so hell-bent on taking the game to its ‘illogical’ conclusion. This gives Bachchan the actor a pretext to launch into a long diatribe that only serves to drag the film further down into the dumps.
Not only does Chehre have no face-saving moments, but it also peddles tendentious, untenable ideas about how the law should be interpreted and applied. The film advocates vigilantism and thinks nothing of the centrality of due process in judicial proceedings. A key character in the film indulges in acts that violate the privacy of an individual. He thinks he has the inalienable right to do so.
Just as cavalier and insensitive is the manner in which Chehre treats the pair of women for whom it finds grudging space. In the universe that the film creates, a woman is either a hapless victim or a scheming vixen. There is nothing between the two ends – or beyond. One of the women (Krystle D’Souza), the unhappy wife of a wealthy entrepreneur (Samir Soni), sneaks into the film via flashbacks. The other is, of course, the housemaid who is at the beck and call of the judge. She performs her chores like a wound-up automaton.
“It is certain … that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have,” James Baldwin had written. In the case of the four old men of Chehre, arrogance, and self-righteousness are added to ignorance and power. The pulpy potion that the deadly combination yields is sought to be projected as an ideal that we must all strive for.
Seriously, one must worry when, given the intolerance and infringement of individual rights that seem to be the norm today, filmmakers think it is perfectly fine to propagate the use of extra-legal means to solve the vexed problems of a complex society.
Amitabh Bachchan is in a ‘friendly appearance’ that hogs most of the footage, at times to the detriment of what is left of the film once it comes unstuck. Emraan Hashmi deserves much more than Chehre has the capacity for. Despite the half-baked character he is saddled with, Hashmi provides flashes of what he is capable of, although all of it is for a lost cause.
Among the rest of the actors, Raghubir Yadav, who bides his time on the sidelines for an occasional look-in, makes every glance and every line count. The character he fleshes is the most vivid of the lot. The film fails to recognize that.
Chehre movie review
Chehre’ is a mystery thriller with its heart in the right place. It just bores you down when the film drags and it drags majorly in the second half. While the film could do justice to the genre of mystery-thriller, Amitabh Bachchan’s monologue is out of place and out of turn preachy. The climax could have been crispier and at least cut short by half its time.
Amitabh Bachchan and Emraan Hashmi are phenomenal in their roles and actually carry the film with their stellar performances. The supporting cast is good too along with Rhea Chakraborty who plays a helper in that mansion. The good thing about the film — no forced songs, linear storytelling style, and impeccable work put together by the actors.
‘Chehre’ could have been a top-ranking mystery-thriller we’ve seen in a long time, if not for the length of the film that drags its pace.
