A genre that provides crucial insight about the place and people. With a young directionless man driving this story, Chhalaang could have easily been a weighty drama, wrapped in the protagonist’s regret, exasperation and anger. The film is set in a small town in Haryana. Hansal Mehta’s Chhalaang, streaming on Amazon Prime Video, is about a man so disinterested and jaded that he’s transcended all notions of failure. Montu is now a “PT (physical training)” instructor at a local school, one where he studied, a job he got because of his father. His final option was to carry the family legacy forward – by becoming a lawyer – but that wasn’t easy, either. He was a promising sportsman but couldn’t maintain a professional rigour: quit cricket and athletics. He quit studying science in school because he found physics tough. He’s quit so many things that his punctuality, or the lack of it, has ceased to matter. Mahender Singh Hooda (Rajkummar Rao), or Montu, likes to wake up late.
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