RSVP’s Chhatriwali (UA) is about a girl who takes up a well-paying job in a condom manufacturing company.
Sanya (Rakul Preet Singh) works in Ratan Lamba’s (Satish Kaushik) condom manufacturing company as its quality control head. Sanya meets, falls in love and finally marries Rishi (Sumeet Vyas) but does not reveal to him or his family members that she is working in a condom manufacturing company. Sanya advises her sister-in-law, Nisha (Prachee Shah Pandya), to ask her husband (Rishi’s elder brother; Rajesh Tailang) to use condom when she sees her condition after her fourth miscarriage. But Nisha tells Sanya that her husband is averse to the idea of using the male contraceptive in spite of himself being a biology teacher in a school. Sanya also soon gathers that the use of condoms in her city is minimal because husbands expect their wives to use pills to avoid pregnancy. She starts educating the womenfolk about the plus points of male contraception as against the minus points of the pill. As if that’s not bad enough for her in-laws, the truth about her job comes out in the open. What happens thereafter?
Sanchit Gupta and Priyadarshee Srivastava have written a story which bears a striking resemblance to the already released Janhit Mein Jaari. The duo’s story and screenplay have comedy, but they are, nevertheless, not very engrossing. The screenplay is one of convenience too. In a small city like Karnal, for a husband to not know where his wife is working seems far-fetched. The latter part of the drama is not as effective as the former part. The duo’s dialogues are quite nice.
Rakul Preet Singh does a good job as Sanya. Sumeet Vyas is nice in the role of Rishi. Satish Kaushik lends able support as Ratan Lamba. Dolly Ahluwalia is okay as Sanya’s mother. Rajesh Tailang has his moments as Rishi’s elder brother, Rajan. Prachee Shah Pandya is quite good as Nisha. Rakesh Bedi makes his presence felt as Madan Chacha. Ravi Arora lends average support as Mini. Uday Vir Singh (as Rishi’s father), Aparna Tiwari (as Rishi’s mother) and Kajol Chugh (as Sanya’s sister, Jaya) provide ordinary support.
Tejas Prabha Vijay Deoskar’s direction is so-so. The narration fails to completely involve the audience. Music (by Akhil Sachdeva, Rohan & Rohan, Durgesh R. Rajbhatt and Sumeet Bellary) is ordinary and so are the lyrics (Akhil Sachdeva, Tejas Prabha Vijay Deoskar, Satya Khare and Saaveri Verma). Vijay Ganguly’s song picturisations are fair. Mangesh Dhakde’s background music is okay. Siddharth Bharat Vasani’s camerawork is average Swapnali Das’ production designing, and Pratik Badgujar’s art direction are so-so. Shruti Bora’s editing ought to have been a bit sharper.
On the whole, Chhatriwali is an average fare but its chances to appeal to the audience are even lesser because of its story resembling Janhit Mein Jaari which itself was a flop.
Released on 20-1-’23 on Zee5.