Chhatriwali

This movie seeks to speak on behalf of women who suffer in silence with the discomfort of the side effects of the contraceptive pill when their husbands do not use a condom for whatever reasons. We have a young chemistry graduate ( Rakul Preet) residing in a small town Karnal in Haryana who likes to apply principles of chemistry in day to day life and takes up a job as the quality head of a condom manufacturing company for lack of a better choice. Since the job is likely to cause embarrassment to her family she hides this fact but not for long leading to friction with her husband ( Sumeet Vyas), with her family and the orthodox community of the town in general. She then starts a crusade to educate and instigate local women to pressurise their husbands to use condom and free them from the pain of the side effects of the pill. This is not as easy as it seems as the women discover. ( In a lighter vein, the movie may not go down too well with pill manufacturers).

Director Tejas Deoskar just about manages to give an average treatment to the plot keeping it a bit too simplistic. No in depth or incisive analysis of the subject at hand but just skimming the surface keeping in mind the sensibilities and the taboos involved besides considerations of the censors and the box office. The small town sensibilities are also not so convincingly shown. A female teacher waiting in a make shift arrangement in a field to teach sex education to school kids seems too far fetched. The reference to Kalpana Chawla doesn't seem to fit in. The acting of all is barely average and no complaints on that.

Another misjuided social commentary - though meant to give messages on safe sex, only ends up misleading the public !

Condoms are good for safe sex and contraception pills does have issues - but here also the film does not talk about the full contraception options !

In the case here the optimal solution for the sister-in-law and / or brother in law like Vasectomy or Fallopian Tube tying (since they have completed their family long back) is not mentioned let alone suggested.

Also there are spermicide gels, female condoms etc. Which are also ignored completely !

Condoms are not the best form of contraception ! They are just one of the cheap options - but they are not infallable, good ones are costly, cause environment issues (construction of condoms are not at all green and they cause non degrading and non re-usable hazardous waste )

Pehle khud k he kaam se Sharm kro,,aur jab gharwalon ko pata chale to khud he ghar chitr chale jao even without saying ur lovable husband...wtf.. "work is worship" if you are ashamed of your work then how can hope from anyone else. Movie ki story aur tight ho skti thi. Misleading information was plotted in the movie. Acting wise movie is very much pretty. Sumit vyas was very cute. This is Not must watch movie at all but you can watch the movie but not with the family. Rakul preet is good in the movie in both ways "acting n look wise ". Chhatriwali is pretty much entertaining movie. If you are free then you can watch the movie.

RATED 7/10 Language: Hindi Media Partner: Zee5

The movie is adequately funny and carried the much needed message throughout the movie. I quite enjoyed the first part. The cast is perfect and its natural....

But the second part looks bit preachy and lack of story telling, especially towards the end. It doesn't mean that the movie is bad... but it becomes more predictable and ended with lecture note.

Must watch for everyone and might not be comfortable to watch with parents... but definitely must watch with partner.

Repeating again for 600 char limitation Must watch for everyone and might not be comfortable to watch with parents... but definitely must watch with partner.

This movie is really need to be shown at least in all South Asian countries. Director portrayed the whole message nicely. Nowadays people only want action thrillers and bollywood masala movies, but when some new social awareness film hit the screens nobody wants to watch with their kids and family. Sex Education is really important in our society where people are dying everyday because of their own silly mistakes. Everyone must know about these types of messages and be aware of at least their own anatomy.

I really suggest everyone to watch this light movie, and share the message with their loved ones to be safe and live long. Enjoy.