Duke Chawla (Bobby Deol) has a successful medical career, a doting girlfriend and dreams that are coming true until one night changes it all. A fatal car crash leaves him neck down paralyzed and puts an end to his perfect life. A man who was once an epitome of hope sees death as a better option than to live like a vegetable. The rest of the story is how Roshan (Dwij Yadav), a young boy dispels the darkness from Duke’s life by teaching him to love life.
The story is ok but the screenplay and the direction are amateurish. The movie is filled with cheesy scenes and silly comedy. The movie is basically Anand rehashed with the little kid playing Anand and Bobby playing a paralyzed Amitabh. Roshan narrates the events going on outside Duke's room window (in what clearly looks like a set). One can clearly make out that the kid is lying. There is a small twist in the end which one can probably guess from a mile.
Chintu Ji is a shameless copy of the 1942 movie "The Man Who Came to Dinner" which was based on a play of the same name. Hadbahedi, a small honest town competes for resources and recognition with a neighboring corrupt town, Triphala. Hadbahedians believe that they have been totally neglected by the state and seek an identity. They are led in this endeavor, by Arun (Priyanshu Chatterjee), the local newspaper's proprietor. They discover that Rishi/Chintu Kapoor was actually born in their village 55 years back. A grand welcome follows. Chintu arrives with his PR Devika Malhotra (Kulraj Randhawa) and treats the innocent people of Hadbahedi with contempt.
The story is just ridiculous with a town where every one is honest and another where every one is corrupt. Scenes are so amateurishly written that they are a joke. Rishi Kapoor is pissed off every time and his PR advises him openly (Are the people blind not to see this?). One moment Priyanshu is yelling at Rishi and in the next scene he is crying asking for forgiveness. There is a whole foreigner track, a film shooting, a terrorism angle thrown just whatever the writer/director (Ranjit Kapoor) can come up with.
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