The film stars Kartik Aaryan and Vijay Raaz. The two actors click well, and they steer us through this journey of India’s first Paralympic gold medalist.
Chandu Champion opens with that most dreaded of openings: the “disbelieving” framing device. I think it may be time to retire this trope of meeting someone in the present, refusing to believe their story, and then – as we keep returning to this point – the disbelief slowly turns to interest and then awe. The disbeliever in this particular framing device is a hammy cop played by Shreyas Talpade, stationed in Sangli, Maharashtra. He just refuses to believe that the old man in front of him – Murlikant Petkar (Kartik Aaryan) – was an athlete. “Ha ha ha,” he laughs. We flash back to 1952, when Murli, as a little boy, tells his friends that he will win an Olympic Gold Medal. “Ha ha ha,” they laugh. A little later, Murli tells a local wrestler and his students he wants that medal. “Ha ha ha,” they laugh. Why stuff so much disbelief into a screenplay, when the audience already believes that this is the story of a great achiever? Why else would this biopic get made?
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June 15, 2024
The last line of your review brought tears ! Thanks BR !
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