Chhorii Review: Hooked Up Till End Nusrat Bharucha Gave A Strong Message With Strong Acting

Cast: Nushrratt Bharuccha, Saurabh Goyal, Mita Vashisht, Rajesh Jais

Director: Vishal Furia

Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video (click to watch)

Filmyhype Ratings: 3.5/5 (three and half star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

Chhorri Review: Chhorii is the Hindi remake of Marathi film Lapachhapi (2016), which came on OTT platform Amazon Prime. The Marathi film was also written-directed by Furia. The speed with which remake films of other languages ​​are coming in Hindi and original content is also available on OTT, is troubling the audience as to why a remake is needed. The matter is related to the market. Hindi has its stars and the audience of Hindi watches a film in his name. Nushrat Bharucha is in Chhorii, who is known for her Pyaar Ka Punchnaam series films. After two and a half years, she returned to the audience with the film Gambhir. Chhorii is the story of such a pregnant Sakshi, who has come with her husband (Saurabh Goyal) to a village away from the city. In the house where she is staying, there is a shadow of a ghost. Which is the enemy of every pregnant. What is the secret? Why did Sakshi’s husband bring her to that village? Why do ghosts have enmity with pregnant women? The film seeks answers to this.

• Story
• The Review
• Review and Analysis
• Star Performances
• Technical Aspects
• The Last Words

Chhorii Review: The Story

The film begins with Sakshi (Nushrat Bharucha) and Hemant (Saurabh Goyal) 8 months pregnant, who decide to leave the city for a few days to get rid of the goons. The husband and wife go to the village of their driver Kajla (Rajesh Jais), which is 300 km from the city. There are only 4-5 houses amidst sugarcane fields in the entire village. There he meets Bhanno Devi (Mita Vasisht), the wife of the driver. Due to the backward thinking of Bhanno Devi, at first Sakshi keeps distance from her. But then impressed by his affectionate nature, she gives him the status of even her mother. As time passes, Sakshi realizes some strange happenings in that place. Sometimes he sees some children, sometimes he hears a lullaby. As the days pass, Neha starts feeling confused and the situation gets worse. Also Bhanno Devi’s bad behavior surprises him. Is he really just delusional or is the place inhabited by ghosts? The story of the film revolves around a social message.

The theme of the story of Chhorii certainly seems old, but the film has some stages of its own, which make it worth watching. However, by the time the climax approaches, the grip of the film loosens. However, Nushrat Bharucha and Meeta Vashisht do not let the film slip with their performances. For the Hindi audience, the story of Vishal Furia Chhorii has been taken to a village in North India. Due to the tone and dress of the characters, it seems to be a village in Haryana or western Uttar Pradesh. Sakshi (Nushrat Bharucha), about eight months pregnant, runs an NGO in the town. Sakshi’s husband Hemant was assaulted by his men after he could not repay the loan taken from the local Dabang Chandel for business. In order to protect the pregnant wife, Hemant, on the advice of his driver Kajla, agrees to hide in her village, 300 km away, where Chandel’s goons cannot reach.

In the village where Kajla lives, there are only 5 houses, of which two belong to her. On reaching home, Kajla’s wife Bhanno Devi assures Hemant of Sakshi’s care. Sabhi feels satisfied and safe with Bhano Devi’s hospitality, but after some time she sees three children, who play far and wide in the fields surrounded by cane houses and suddenly disappear. Sakshi wants to play with them, but Bhanno Devi instructs them to stay away from the children.

Sakshi finds Bhano Devi’s words strange and asks Hemant to go back when he returns from the city. Both are about to leave in the night when Kajla knocks Hemant unconscious by beating him with a stick and Bhanno Devi imprisons Sakshi by tying her hands and feet. Bhanno reveals to Sakshi a secret of this family, which has very creepy and nefarious traditions. Bhano Devi tells him that their house is under the curse of Sunayani, the dead wife of Kajla’s younger brother, whom she calls a witch. Kajla and Bhanno Devi had four sons. The eldest was Rajbir. After Sunayni enters the house, she subdues the three younger sons. Bhanno Devi complains about this to Sunayani’s husband. There is a fight between the two. Sunayani kills her husband and commits suicide by jumping into a well along with Bhanno Devi’s three sons. Sunayni is eight months pregnant at the time of her death.

Kajla’s son Rajbir has three marriages. Sunayni kills two wives in the eighth month of pregnancy. The child of the third wife Rani is also killed, but her life is saved. However, due to the shock, he loses his voice. Bhanno tells that the curse of this house will be removed only when a pregnant girl stays there for three days and remains safe. After this, Sakshi starts seeing some scenes from the past here and there, in which information about Sunayni and the events related to her comes to the fore. Now whether Sakshi is able to escape from the clutches of these people or not? What happens to Hemant? Why does Sakshi see children and Sunayini? What is Rajbir’s secret? The following story answers these questions, which is better to see for yourself.

Chhorri Review and Analysis

The story of Chhorii is of Vishal Furia, while the screenplay and dialogues have been written by Vishal Kapoor. Chhorii’s takeoff is fine and more than half the film is tied, but after Sakshi’s delusional scene comes, the film starts to falter. This part feels stretched and the duration of 2 hours 9 minutes starts feeling a bit long. Barring one or two twists in the climax, there is nothing that remains in the mind even after the film is over.

If we talk about horror, then the house built in the middle of the cane in the village and the maze-like paths increase the curiosity towards the scenes and this sense of unpredictability adds a temper of horror to it. These seemingly simple scenes also help in creating suspense. Sunayini roaming in the house and more horror than the soul of the children has been created through the location and Anshul Dubey’s cinematography in this is praiseworthy. The way he has shown the sunken house amidst the sugarcane fields through the eyes of the camera, he has made even the ordinary scene exciting.

In Chhorii, the characters of Nusrat and Mita Vashisht mainly take the film forward and both these actresses have done a great job in their respective characters. After the strange story, Nusrat has once again left the mark of her serious performance. At the same time, Mita Vashisht’s performance makes a special contribution in raising the mysterious image of the girl. Rajesh Jais in the character of Kajla and Saurabh Goyal in the character of Hemant has supported him well. The figures of female feticide and female infanticide at the end of the film give a serious look to the film. Vishal Furia Ki Chhorii may be weak on the horror front, but the film does not bore.

Chhorii Review: Star Performances

Nusrat Bharucha has done a commendable job in the role of 8 months pregnant. Fear, astonishment, perseverance… he has brought all the emotion on his face. At the same time, Mita Vasisht has given her equal support. Although his Haryanvi dialogues are distracting in the beginning, his character has been given so many shades by the director that you slowly get attached to it. Saurabh Goyal, Rajesh Jais and the rest of the cast are good in their characters.

The lead artist of the film Nushrat Bharucha also has to prove that girls are not less than ends and if they want, they can also carry the entire weight of the film on their shoulders. Nusrat should also be praised in this sense that she agreed to work in this film. The entire focus is on him in the film. The rest of the characters keep coming and going. She also makes a lot of efforts to bring the gait and gestures of a pregnant girl, but the pleasant pain of eight months of pregnancy, which is seen on the face of the mother, does not appear here. Even while traveling by road of two and a half three hundred kilometers. Nusrat should have seen Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Bhoot’ before shooting for this film. It can be considered a text book on the expression of heroine in a horror film.

Chhorii Review: Technical Aspects

The most important part of any horror film is its technical part. The sound design of the film has been done by Belon Fonseca and the background score has been taken care of by Ketan Sodha. The film has been very good in this department. While the attempt is not made to intimidate by loud music or screams but has been kept quite mysterious given the hidden message in the film. Anshul Choubey’s cinematography is one of the positive aspects of the film. Some of the scenes are very spectacular. You feel lost along with Sakshi in that scene when Sakshi tries to understand the way through the sugarcane fields by climbing on the roof of the house. Editor Unnikrishna PP could have wrapped up the film a little more. Some scenes are repeated several times, which if cut, could have comfortably shortened the film by 10-15 minutes. The film could have been tightened on the editing table, but here it is lacking.

The Last Words

Overall, the Nushrat Bharucha starrer horror film ‘Chhorii’ has managed to scare and raise some important issues despite some shortcomings. If you love watching horror movies, then Chhorii is a must watch. ‘Chhorii’ is a family film. You can definitely watch this film with your family. The whole film keeps you hooked and the last message definitely makes you think. While listening to the song ‘O Ri Chiraya’ at the end of the film, you will not be able to stop you from talking about this film.