Released last week in U.P. and this week in Bombay, Organ EntertainÂment’s Chaturnath (UA) is the story of a fraudulent man who poses as a lawyer but ultimately saves the village from a businessman who has evil inÂtentions.
Chaturnath (Omkardas Manikpuri) is a lawyer without a law degree. AdÂvocate Virat Tandon (Deshdeepak Mishra) is asked by businessman Nagraj (Rajesh Maurya) to do an illeÂgal act. Since Virat is a conscientious lawyer, he refuses to oblige. Nagraj decides to blow up Virat with a bomb but while Virat escapes, ChaÂturÂnath is injured, and his girlfriend and some other villagers are killed in the bomb explosion.
Finally, Chaturnath, Virat and one Dr. Jhapda (Arvind Agarwal) teach Nagraj the lesson of his lifetime by puncturing his evil plan to blow up the entire village. What happens thereafter? What would have been NagÂraj’s gain in blowing up the village and how was he to do it?
Swadesh has penned an idiotic script which has no head or tail. The story is dull while the screenplay is stupid. Even his dialogues are pedestrian.
Omkardas Manikpuri is weak in Chaturnath’s role. Rajesh Maurya is okay as Nagraj. Deshdeepak Mishra is ordinary as advocate Virat Tandon. Arvind Agarwal’s performance (as Dr. Jhapda) is poor. Nira Suarez (as Veronica), Akhilesh Gaur (as Rudra), Amit Mishra (as police inspector Ballo), Kanchan Bhardwaj, Manoj Agarwal, Siddharth Tripathi, Mahima Tiwari, Ashutosh Dwivedi, Sachida nand, Vikas Tripathi, Sandeep Yadav, Chandra Prakash and Anand Tripathi lend dull support.
Swadesh’s direction is pathetic. Music (by DJ Bharali and Singh BroÂthers) is fair. Lyrics (Pt. Kiran Mishra, S.R. Bharti and Niranjan) are okay. Pappu K. Shetty’s cinematography is routine. Deepak Gupta’s editing ought to have been sharper.
On the whole, Chaturnath is a flop show.
Released on 31-5-’19 at Movie Star (daily 1 show) of Bombay by Organ Entertainment. Publicity & opening: poor.