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What: Chumbak movie review - the Marathi-language slice of life gem by Sandeep Modi featuring Swanand Kirkire is a cinema that relates and resonates with an echo. Chumbak also marks the debut of superstar Akshay Kumar as presenter/producer in Marathi cinema
Chumbak movie synopsis
Bhalchandra aka Balu (Sahil Jadhav) dreams of continuing his father’s legacy and start his own sugarcane juice shop in is village. He works at a coffee house in Mumbai and is saving money for the same. A greed for quick bucks spoils his plans as he gets conned resulting in loss of all his savings.
Bala’s street smart friend Disco (Sangram Desai) advises him to run a lottery scam from phone. Prasanna (Swanand Kirkire) a village dim-wit falls into the prey.
But fate takes unusual turns, the innocence of Prasanna gets into the nerves of Bala and Disco resulting in a journey of realisation and understanding the difference between need and greed in this coming of life tale of acceptance, hope and survival.
Chumbak movie review
Making a mainstream slice of life cinema that can relate and resonate is a task. Making a slice of life cinema which has an indie/arty approach and which can still strike a chord with the core is expertise and its astonishing to find a first timer like Sandeep Modi marvellously achieving the feat.
Many things have already being said when the movie got realeased in theatres and thanks to the OTT/digital revolution, Chumbak is streaming on Sony Liv. For those who missed this national award winner in 2018 (in acting department for Swanand Kirkire).
The pathos of the society we live in coined with the diminishing human ethos where gaining trust is like winning a lottery and tendency to doubt, judge, becoming common is the issue which the movie addresses.
The mastery is addressing the above core issue without any fuss and simple storytelling that seems like watching a life on screen is something to ponder and the writer director Sandeep Modi with his fellow writer Saurabh Bhave achieves it effortlessly.
Swanand Kirkire is class apart. Truly deserving the national honours in the acting department.
Sahil Jadhav as Baalu excels.
Sangram Desai as Disco is brilliant.
Technicalities
Realistically shot by Rangarajan Ramabadran and finely edited by Chandrashekhar Prajapati, Saket Kanetkar’s music soothingly blends with the narrative.
Final words
Chumbak has that magnetic power to pull its audience from anywhere. This is based in Maharashtra/Mumbai and people are speaking in Marathi but this could have happened anywhere. Chumbak is not just a brilliantly performed heartfelt, affecting gem it has a universal appeal that resonates and resonates with an echo.
A child born from life & fed by cinema. A filmi keeda from child & a film journalist for the last fifteen years. a father, seeker, foodie who loves crooning bollywood melodies twitter.com/cineblues More By vishal verma