Movie Review: Freaky Chakra

Freaky Chakra (2003) was certainly an offbeat film in current Yo-Bangalore.
I had been meaning to watch this for the past two years, mainly cause it seemed so weird. Needless to say I had no access to it, unless I was willing to spring 15 $ for it. When I had asked my local Bollywood video rental guy then he had said " Yeh Freaky Chakra Wakra nahi hai".
Freaky Chakra is made by VK Prakash & Ziba Bhagwar (who also co-wrote the screenplay). It is an interesting movie with The Writer(Ranvir Shorey/VJ Ranvir Shorey) introducing the characters as the story unwinds. Deepti Naval is Ms. Janaki Thomas, a doctor by training who gave up being a doctor after she was unable to save her husband and now works as a beautician for corpses. She has an absolutely stunning apartment in Bangalore. Obviously a lot of though went into planning it, or maybe they just rented it as is. Anyway it is aesthetically pleasing to see her apartment. Her life is seemingly hard because she goes around complaining about everything. One gets to see the mundanity of her life and the depressing circle of life she leads with her (seeming) high point of the day being an obscene call in the night from her perverted neighbor, Mr. Sundaram (Sachin Khedekar). In person Mr. Sundaram is in love with her and comes to her apartment with a series of ailments since he has heard she is a doctor and she slams the door on his face denying her medical training. In the building also live Babloo and Bunty, two sardarji kids, who are adoreably naughty and keep bothering her. So far seems like a boring life, which it is.

The writer comes in between to add comments here and there to help us understand the characters better. Anyway to add some spice to this we add a young 19 year old guy who " is worried about medical school, is horny all the time and is a virgin" priorities of which change in his worried mind. Once he enters the storyline there is an element of freshness which love brings to ones life. And the writer and Mr. Sundaram get affected by it.

Overall the story is laid back and might not have too much depth to it, but it certainly is interesting. Some of the dialogues are funny, stupidly funny. And the dialogues have things like Hey Da, what is going on? Hey Man, what are u doing?. The music by Ousepacchan is pretty cool (definitely south indian)(and has a piece by Chopin, which does repeat a lot). It is very Yo for the most part, not that I mean it in a bad way. It is a lighthearted love story between the 19 yr old kid and the 40 odd year old Ms. Thomas. There are a couple of 'clean' shower scenes, which I guess is as much steaminess as an Indian movie can show, though they make fun of the censors and went with an A rating. Overall, it is a fun movie and is an addition to the Indi-English Movies Repertoire. Perfect for a lazy weekend.