Chopsticks

I remember when Abhay Deol was doing movies like DevD, Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, Manorama 6ft Under, Socha Na Tha, there wasn't much space in Bollywood for movies like those as it was a gamble. He never got to be the most successful commercially, but whenever there would be a talk of bringing about change in Bollywood from masala musical movies to artistic thought provoking cinema or dark or satirical; Abhay Deol for me would be the name at the top. Sure Nawazuddin Siddiqui is mostly mentioned when talking about this changing genre of films along with Anurag Kashyap which is ofcourse true. But Abhay Deol was the first guy to start taking those risks especially considering he belongs to one of the top n most successful families i.e. Deol Family. Happy to see Abhay Deol back on screen with a lot more platforms to perform with online streaming playforms. What i mean is Abhay Deol indeed is truly an "ARTIST"

Chopsticks is a sweet Drama-Comedy by Netflix. The Story basically revolves around a girl Nirma (Mithila Palkar) whose brand new car has been stolen & her only aim is to find her car, in the process she seeks the help from a con man named Artist (Abhay Deol). The Story directly starts with a showroom scene with Nirma buying a new car & giving a small hint of her character & her professional life. Then it directly goes to turning point where a con man steals her car. This doesn't help the audience to empathize much with her character. It would have been better if the story would have started with her personal & professional life problems & on that her only happiness of buying a new car & then moving to a point where it gets stolen would have created a much more impact on audience. The second flaw in the movie is directly focusing more on internal change of her character as the movie moves forward whereas it should have been like Nirma focusing on the ways to get her car back & in this process find the potential in herself. No doubt the idea of the story is good but some more work on the script would have made it a wonderful film.

If you are looking over the top typical Bollywood movie than give this movie a miss. This is very simple soothing movie . Both the actors Abhay deol and Mithila Palkar have done a good job. As per the demand of script they have underplayed the characters . Vijay Raaj is a good actor and he has proved the same in this movie. This movie may remind you old simple comedy movies by Basu Chatterjee. Movie will leave a smile on your face.

Abhay Deol, a fine actor and there is no doubt. But there is new girl on the screen, well not new for many but at least I watched her for the first time and she is Mithila Palkar. A cool, simple, nice and a cute addition, with beautiful and simplest of acting, 10/10 for the role. A very nice weekend watch, do see.

A simple concept with brilliant performance. Being a fan of Abhay Deol I might sound biased but he was as usual good at whatever he did. Good time passing movie.