An interesting story with a not-so-menacing anti-hero
The film is set in a world where art is outlawed and the only way to survive is by creating something new and original. The story follows a group of artists as they try to escape this world and find new ways to express themselves.
Nonetheless, if you go into this expecting a thriller, you’re not going to be disappointed. Being a self-proclaimed Dulquer Salmaan fan, I have been enjoying the variety of choices that the actor has been making with his recent ventures and seeing him as an anti-hero in this one shows how much potential he has. ..
Danny, a local catholic florist, is suspicious of the movie and the ending is a non-shocker for anyone that saw the trailer to the movie before getting into it. The story tells the tale of Inspector Arvind Mathur (played by Sunny Deol) who is on a quest to find the psycho serial killer who is on the loose and is killing movie critics who bash movies without thinking about the consequences of what a negative, uninformed review would do to the success of a film and subsequently to the hard work of a film-maker.
The movie Kaagaz Ke Phool, which was critically trashed and stopped making movies after receiving negative reviews, is being honored in a new movie. The film attempts to pay tribute to the legendary filmmaker, Guru Dutt, who stopped making movies after his last movie received a lot of positive critical reviews. This new movie pays tribute to the filmmaker’s movies, especially his critically trashed film, Kaagaz Ke Phool after Dutt’s death.
Mathur takes the help of a psychologist named Zenobia to find the psychopath of a killer. Zenobia helps him to understand the killers’ motivations and how they are able to commit these murders. She also helps him to develop a plan to catch the killer before he can kill more people.
Chup is a thriller at its core, but it’s difficult to see a menacing villain in Danny. When it comes to psychopaths, we rarely find any Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs), Norman Bates (Psycho), or Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) to come from recent Indian movies. ..
The last notorious psychopaths in Hindi films came from Rakesh Mahadkar from Ek Villain and Shiv Prasad Yadav from Mardaani 2. So to say that Chup gave us a new menacing psychopath would be reaching. The first half is slow but engaging and the exposition in the second half is certainly notable. ..
The movie has some great moments, but the romance felt a bit forced and uninteresting. The concept is novel but the storytelling is just passive, making it feel like it dulls down by the time we reach the climax.
The murders actually taking place after Mathur figured out the motive behind the crime is a nice which is why linking the murders to the reviews was an interesting choice. By the end of Chup, you end up sympathizing with our villain.
The soundtrack to the film is a great callback to old hit songs from the past and it’s refreshing to see these retro hits in 2022’s modern setting. Dulquer Salmaan’s performance as Danny was amazing and I love seeing Sunny Deol making bold choices with his comeback as an actor. Pooja Bhatt as Zenobia was a much-needed badass female to the story.
Sherya Dhanwanthary’s character was a woman who fell in love with a grey character and eventually paid the consequences of falling in love too fast, too soon. Chup is extremely interesting at the beginning and throughout the exposition of the crime, but the ending of Chup pales in comparison to the first half.
In the early 2000s, a new artist emerged in the music industry that quickly became a sensation. His name was Chup and his music was all about revenge. The artist’s songs were dark and gritty, and they featured angry lyrics about getting revenge on those who wronged him. The artist’s popularity grew quickly, and soon he had become one of the most popular artists in the country. But as his career continued to grow, so did his anger and resentment towards those who had hurt him. He began to lash out at anyone and everyone he felt had wronged him in some way. This led to a series of violent incidents, in which Chup attacked people he felt had wronged him. He even killed one person after a heated argument over money owed him. In total, Chup caused several injuries and deaths before finally being arrested in 2017.
