Review : Chasm-e-buddoor

This is the story of 3 friends Sidhharta (Farooq Shaikh), Jomo (Ravi Baswani) and Omi (Rakesh Bedi), sharing a flat in Delhi. The three are students, still recieving financial aid from their parents, and are trying to get jobs. Sidhharta is the “serious” one of the lot, the other two being good-natured, girl-watching idlers. Neha (Deepti Naval) is the pretty girl in the neighborhood, whom Omi and Jomo try to woo. Their adventures with Neha end badly for them, since Neha lives with her well-built and handy-with-his-fists brother.

Sidhharta, who hasn’t met Neha yet, meets her when she comes selling a detergent powder “Chamko” door-to-door. Their meeting leads to other meetings and finally to romance. When Omi and Jomo get a whiff of Sidhharta’s romance, they are stung by pangs of jealousy, and try to break it up by manufacturing amorous love stories of their own. They paint Neha’s character as that of a moral-less, flighty girl, and offer Sidhharta proof in the forms of various “landmarks” inside Neha’s home. What Sidhharta does not know is that both Jomo and Omi have entered Neha’s home only to be beaten up, by her family members.

Upon actually seeing his friends’ “proof” in Neha’s home, Sidhharta is hurt, and breaks up with Neha. Meanwhile Omi and Jomo are repentant of their jealous behavior, and try to unite the lovers again. Do they succeed ? …

Besides consummate actors, this film features a simple, yet comic-in-its-everydayness storyline. Direction is good and songs are hum-mable. A clean family film.