Challo Driver

I walk upto the PVR Counter this morning and ask for tickets for 2 shows. The first one I have already written about – Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. The 2nd one, met with a reaction or should I say, a look of ridicule from even the guy at the ticket counter. It said, “Are you sure? Did you say Challo Driver”? The guy was quick to change his reaction and inform me about the fact that the only show of the movie was unsold yesterday.

After a quick conversation with his manager, he finally did give me a ticket and saved me a couple of hours of doing almost nothing. But then, even watching the movie was as good as doing nothing. The saving grace – I had 5 other people in the hall who kept me company all the way to the end. Ergo it is safe to assume that the movie was not really very bad considering all of us waited till the end.

Tanya Khanna (Kainaz Motivala) is a twenty something who wants to start an adventure company which would be named after her parents. She is from Chandigarh and is quite qualified. But she doesn’t have enough money to seed into her business idea. And that’s why she finds herself in DallyVich trying to make as much money – not too much really – to ensure that she can get her venture off the ground.

But she really cannot stick around too much at any job because she is really not able to find her groove – in other words, something that she really loves to do. She returns to her flat one day after quitting her job only to be handed over a “different” opportunity to make a little bit of money. Getting what is considered to be a truly man’s job – A driver. And considering that she is a really good driver especially with SUVs, she finds herself I the queue for the not so enviable role of driving for Arjun (Vickrant Mahajan) aka Terminator because he has fired 46 drivers in the past 3 years.

Debutante actor Vickrant Mahajan has also directed the movie, written the lyrics of the songs, the Screenplay and the dialogues. Quite an all in one package one would say. But only capable of saving money and not delivering a quality end product at the end of the day. Challo Driver joins the totally not happening lists of movies that had so much potential at the stage of the storyboard but thanks to the “driver” of the movie being not so great, just fizzles out within a few seconds of the start.

To add to the woes of the movie, one has to sustain some really pathetic performances from the entire star cast led by our protagonists of course. The only person who stands head over shoulders over the entire cast is Prem Chopra. A good concept / story has been flushed down the drain once again. A pity because this could have been so much better than some of the crap that we have been subject to over the past few weeks. Instead it joins the crap @ 4 on 10.

Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql1Kk85tzcY