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Genres: Drama Censor: U Duration: 130 min. Studio / Presenter: Kyra Kumar Kreations, Akshay Kumar Producer: Aruna Bhatia, Naren Kumar, Cape Of Good Films DOP: Rangarajan Ramabadran Director: Sandeep Modi Cast:  Swanand Kirkire, Sahil Jadhav, Sangram Desai Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke.

For the past few years we have been watching some story oriented Marathi films which have thrown light on realities noticed in our society. Latest released Marathi film ‘Chumbak‘ is one more addition to such thought provoking films. The film presents a sensible tale of a teenager Bhalchandra alias Baalu(Sahil Jadhav) trapped between aspirations and morals and the story of ‘Chumbak‘ film reveals how he makes his choice between the two to shape his life.

Baalu who works hard as a cleaner in a hotel in Mumbai, dreams of escaping this routine life to start a small little business of sugarcane juice stall of his own, in his own village. With the help of his street smart friend Dhananjay aka Disco ( Sangram Desai) he first puts his small saving into a double money making scheme with an investor. And when the investor cheats all , his friend suggests him another plan on the lines of the infamous ‘Nigerian SMS Scam‘ using a prepaid sim card. Baalu sends several text messages randomly, no one but one man falls for it. He happens to be a simple poor mentally slow villager Prasanna( Swanand Kirkire) who travels all the way to Mumbai to meet Baalu, who poses himself as a representative of a leading financial institution offering Lottery prize of Rs. 1 Crore.

How poor Prasanna falls into the trap of Baalu and Disco and how Baloo tries to be sympathetic towards him, yet moves toward his ultimate goal, is presented very systematically through an interesting screenplay by director Sandeep Modi. ‘Chumbak‘ almost goes on the lines of World Cinema, with good support coming from superb cinematography by Rangarajan Ramabadran, good editing work by Chandrashekhar Prajapati and suitable music by Saket Kanetkar going well with the script. But, above all the performances by the lead artistes is the plus point of this film. Besides the two youngsters Sahil Jadhav and Sangram Desai, the actor who has impressed the most is Swanand Kirkire. Certainly a worth watch film. Thanks to Akshay Kumar for presenting this sensible film.