CHOKED Review: Anurag Kashyap’s De-mon is a hilarious, highly emotional watch worthy flick
Quick Take: Choked streaming on Netflix is a film that spool back to Demonetisation days, its aftermath affecting a middle-class family, in a thought-provoking engaging manner by Anurag Kashyap. The movie scores high on editing, good background score, absorbing cinematography, and dialogue that syncs well with the characters and situations in the movie. The performance of Saiyami Kher’s is outstanding and she has managed to keep her role laudable.
The story: The story CHOKED revolves around once a happy couple, and then the tense relationship between a bank employee Sarita played by Saiyami Kher and aspiring musician Sushanth played by Roshan Mathews. It is about Sarita trying to make ends meet while Sushanth doing nothing about it, not even trying to resolve the situation that sarita and the family faces. Then a miracle strikes, when all of a sudden in their kitchen home sink, money starts flowing. The whole drama is around the sink, and sarita’s reactions to different situation which is hilarious.
Then comes a jolt, to the joy of money flow, when PM Narendra Modi’s announces to demonetise 500- and 1000-rupees currency all of a sudden. Catching sarita and her family by surprise. The lines like Mushroom Khao, Modi ban jao is woven into the film, a battle between politics and the aftermath of political adventure that affects people.
Choked does well to portray a soul ( sarita ) whose dreams have been demolished once before and as soon as she starts to dream again, she finds a roadblock all over again. What helps the movie is the performance of Limaye’s Reddy who is quite convincing to look menacing and sycophantic. Roshan, is cute. The Gully Boy girl Amruta Subhash also brings immense by being comical and character perfect.
The parts played by Tai the nosy neighbour of sarita in the film and carrom buddy Dinesh and the bank manages brings some spark in to the movie to keep you engaged in the little less than 2-hour movie. We loved the political commentary! How it’s an outside element and only the protagonist seems to be bothered by it could really strike a chord with the audiences.
But, when you suddenly feel in the middle of the movie where just 6 characters are involved back and forth is a drag, you are treated with a great climax scene ending the film in a happy note.
This Anurag Kashyap movie CHOKED – Paisa Bolta Hai, is a worthy watch in which he manages quite well to turn a political account into a suspenseful drama involving a economically struggling middle-class woman who finds that a pipe in her kitchen sink is ejecting black monies.
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CHOKED – Paisa Bolta Hai is streaming on Netflix.