I saw the film on Friday and thought the film was pretty good. I specially liked the very unconventional treatment and pace of the film. I also liked the fact that the director does not bother with translating English dialouges by repeating them in Hindi and also there seems to be no attempt to please the conservative group and everything is in your face stark and real.

just seen the film and i must say it was very refreshing a different kind of film the type that RGV might make...anyway for my sins i enjoyed and i'm sure those of u looking for a different type of story will do so too

Dam Maro Dam!!Phir bhi rahega gham!!

Had to share this review by Kaveree Bamzai in the latest issue of India-Today -

"Completely Flat

CHARAS
Director: Tigmannshu Dhulia
Cast: Uday Chopra, Irrfan Khan, Namrata Shirodkar, Jimmy Shergill

Some movies make you want to put a bullet through your head. Charas is one of them. A pretentious mess, it begins with Ladakh, stops by England, takes in a bit of the Italian Mafia and even makes it to Afghanistan. Along the way, we-I use that term loosely as there were precisely 10 people in the theatre-are forced to watch Uday Chopra playing last action hero, Namrata Shirodkar trying very hard to look sexy and Jimmy Shergill looking as he always does: bovine. As for Irrfan Khan, the man everybody has anointed the Next Big Thing, one more twitch, jerk or mumble, and we will have to get him checked for Parkinson's.

Director Tigmannshu Dhulia's debut, Haasil, was fresh, searing and quite stylised. Everything Charas is not. If this is what hype does to talented people, we prefer films by donkeys."


I especially like the last line