With emphasis initially on Shahid's foolish and near-retard acts throughout the film, Singh projects a story borrowed from the 90s of Bollywood to create Batti Gul Meter Chalu. One of its main problems starts with the fact that the film takes off only after the intermission. Batti Gul Meter Chalu is an unevenly paced social drama that sheds light on to the concepts of customer fraud by private power distribution companies and electricity theft. Despite the comfort of the woman of his life (Shraddha Kapoor), he is unable to resolve the issues related to electricity, which seems to be also the issue of millions of others in the state of Uttarakhand, India. His best friend, played by Divyendu Sharma, is the protagonist here who is also a small business owner currently troubled with a series of astronomical power bills that are coming his way that put personal and business lives into a tizzy. Shahid Kapoor tries hard and comes last in his portrayal of a roughed-up and unscrupulous lawyer along with his two friends who together form a love triangle. In his latest feature, almost a year after winning accolades thanks to Akshay Kumar, Singh is back albeit without the substance. Director Shree Narayan Singh probably started the streak in India in 2017 with Toilet: Ek Prem Katha where he fueled the propaganda surrounding cleanliness and lack of outdoor toilets in rural India, which soon engulfed the secular country. It guarantees automatic promotion (sometimes even sponsored by the government) and viewership. I'd gone for 2/3 but Shahid did amazing work as an actor, I blame bad narration for all bad ratings.!Įvery film industry in the world hits a plateau every once in a while, where a streak of films are produced that deal with the current social stark issues that are hampering the world and its development. I hope they correct this and re-release or though this culture of cutting multiple scenes for DVD release in India isn't that popular, I can only hope that makers do something about its narrative style and re-release it. Shahid Kapoor, Divyendu and despite lesser screen time Yami Gautam did perform great but it lacked the narrative. Second half of the film felt very promising but again, due to unwanted jokes/comedy it lost its essence, it felt a lot like #JollyLLB series but thats now what this movie was intended to, even if it was, it wouldn't live up to the expectation of #JollyLLB series coz a lot of jokes bounced off. Sharaddha Kapoor might be a good actress, but I dint see much use of her skill except for 2/3 songs and marketing of a heroine. The story line is very predictive and doesnt carry enough emotion towards the story. I loved the trailer and its empathetic value before going to the movie, but perhaps bad edits and bad narrative spoiled the movie.
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