Rafoo Chakkar-Pathetic Comedy

Rafoo Chakkar is a painful, boring, crude, trashy, brainless comedy. And it’s not funny; it makes you yawn all the time. It only shows a typical low class comedy.

This pathetic chakkar starts with Millie and Julie (Nisha and Nauheed) who run away from home because they do not want to get married. Similarly, Pappu and Munnu( Yudi and Aslam) escape for the same reason. These four meet in Mumbai and fall in love, when they were supposed to get married to each other in the first place.

Besides making a mockery of funny films, it also mocks marriage and death. The scenes involving death are handled insensitively. The performances are terrible, more so because the characters are silly. Archana Puran Singh and Mita Vashisht have made utter fools of themselves and their action sequences are hard to believe. Nisha Rawal, last seen in Serendipity’s awful rip-off Hastey Hastey, has no screen presence whatsoever and cannot act. Nauheed Cyrusi is strictly ok.

Yudi was a popular VJ on Channel V and his TV shows had better scripts than Rafoo Chakkar. He does not look awkward in front of the camera. Aslam Khan has an annoying and stupid character and his expressions are totally blank.

Shakti Kapoor and Sadashiv Amrapurkar haven’t been seen in a long time. The performances of the characters looks outdated. The pre-climax scene has been ripped off cult comedy Andaz Apna Apna, which ironically starred Shakti Kapoor as the memorable Crime Master Gogo. The music by Lalit Pandit (of Jatin-Lalit) is bad, the camerawork is messy.

Rafoo Chakkar is a 2 hour long drag. If people are still willing to see the movie I suggest them to stay awake!!!