Chehre (2021) [Movie Review]
Dir: Rumy Jafry Starring: Amitabh Bachan, Emraan Hashmi, Krystle D’souza, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Annu Kapoor, Rhea Chakraborty. Dur : 2 hrs 19 mins Genre: Drama Rating : 8/10 The trailer had me hooked. I couldn’t believe that Bollywood was finally experimenting with original storylines! But when I sat down to review the film I realized that it was a copied idea. As if that wasn’t enough, it wasn’t even a new copy at that! This film is actually based off a German Novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt titled A Dangerous Game . A Marathi version had come out way back in 1971; more recently a Kannada and Bengali adaptation were released. Nevertheless, Bollywood felt that it had to jump on the bandwagon and recycle this story. The film itself is quite brilliant. The idea is novel. It doesn’t have traditional Bollywood trappings. It dives straight into the story and then begins to explore characters and possibilities. I quite liked the selection of cast. Th