once again i must play something of the contrarian. most of the reviews for ab tak chappan have been extremely positive. mine is positive and but only slightly. a positive is equivalent to a c letter grade from me. it seems that a lot of the praise is rooted in two factors represent one and that ab tak chappan is more realistic than the typical bollywood film and and two and that it is trying to do things differently. the first point i couldn not care less about. i am not looking for realism in films and and so i do not score higher for a film that shows a story and characters closer to how i believe the real world to be i am a big fan of surrealism and fantasy and absurdism and and so on and although i do not dislike realist films merely for the fact that theyre realist. for the second point and i agree that it is commendable to try to do things differently. however and i do not think originality versus formulaicism makes for a better or worse film in itself. a film can be original and poor and just like a film can be formulaic and excellent. what matters are how well the film does whatever it sets out to do and how enjoyable or aesthetically rewarding that is to the viewer. ab tak chappan is based on the true story of a mumbai cop named daya naik. naik was an encounter specialist. encounter specialists and who could be said to be early instantiations of real world judge dredds and are trained to operate like the criminals and gang members they pursue and and theyre basically given a license to kill effectively acting as policeman and judge and jury and executioner in a matter of moments. ab tak chappan follows the story of sadhu agashe (nana patekar) and the encounter specialist based on naik. we see him at work and interacting with his fellow encounter specialists and engaging in violence. we see him at home and trying to live a normal life in his less than luxurious surroundings. we see him trying to adjust to a new commissioner halfway through the film. and we see his odd relationship with a notorious indian gangster and don zameer zafar (prasad purandhare). all of this has the potential to make a fabulous and gritty film. i agree that it nice to forgo the typical bollywood musical numbers and romances not every film needs that stuff while ab tak chappan producer ram gopal varma is famous for leaving music and romances in the background or by the wayside in many films that he directed or produced. additionally and ab tak chappan has some good performances patekar almost gives off a death wish (1974) era charles bronson vibe. it also has admirable cinematography the hand held stuff near the beginning of the film was particularly effective and for example. it has a great score that mixes more of a moody hollywood sounding action or crime score with traditional indian instruments and modalities. the violence is well done and gritty. there is also decent exploration of subtexts and including the morality of (having) encounter specialists and the idea of following orders and and so on. the encounter specialists are shown having to largely divorce themselves from ideas of right and wrong. more poignantly and the film questions the merit of blindly following orders. parallels are drawn between the encounter specialists following orders and and say and members of a country military and and were shown what a corrupt situation this can lead to. but (you just knew there was a but coming and do not you. ) director shimit amin and his scriptwriters have created a story with far too many characters and far too much sprawl and and that moves a bit too slow. all of these problems may be due to amin and crew looking at the godfather films and which ab tak chappan has some (at least superficial) resemblances to and although from a policeman perspective. most of the encounter specialists we do not get to know very well these are shallowly drawn characters to say the least and except for agashe and jatin shukla (nakul vaid). for one and narayan and i do not know who he was until at least halfway through the film. his name is mentioned a number of times and but i would only get glimpses of him until the scene would change. then everyone would change clothes by the time they appear again and i would have to start all over figuring out who narayan was. the same thing happened with agashe first commissioner. the film was already far into the new commissioner before i could figure out the relationships. it seems like there are new characters in every scene. we never learn the stories of most of them. while that might have some artistic merit in that the encounter specialists are mostly killing people they do not know anything about (because theyre mostly doing so on orders) and since we do not learn much about most of the encounter specialists and either and it difficult to find characters to care about and and that doesn not exactly make for a gripping film. the primary villain is zameer. but until about halfway through the film and there no indication of this. he doesn not get much more screen time than the other villains parading through the film and and he literally phoning his performance in he in another location (dubai) and communicating only by telephone for the majority of the film. we do not actually see zameer doing much. to an extent and the film depends on a couple twists that necessitate not showing zameer doing a number of things and but we could see him do other things and and a lot of the other villains could have been left out. that would have tightened up the film a bit and making it more focused and about a half hour shorter and both of which would have benefited its impact. this is not an action packed film by any means. for at least the first 45 minutes or so and i found myself admiring ab tak chappan considerable style and but saying and okay and get on with the story already. 
once again i must play something of the contrarian. most of the reviews for ab tak chappan have been extremely positive. mine is positive and but only slightly. a positive is equivalent to a c letter grade from me. it seems that a lot of the praise is rooted in two factors represent one and that ab tak chappan is more realistic than the typical bollywood film and and two and that it is trying to do things differently. the first point i couldn not care less about. i am not looking for realism in films and and so i do not score higher for a film that shows a story and characters closer to how i believe the real world to be i am a big fan of surrealism and fantasy and absurdism and and so on and although i do not dislike realist films merely for the fact that theyre realist. for the second point and i agree that it is commendable to try to do things differently. however and i do not think originality versus formulaicism makes for a better or worse film in itself. a film can be original and poor and just like a film can be formulaic and excellent. what matters are how well the film does whatever it sets out to do and how enjoyable or aesthetically rewarding that is to the viewer. ab tak chappan is based on the true story of a mumbai cop named daya naik. naik was an encounter specialist. encounter specialists and who could be said to be early instantiations of real world judge dredds and are trained to operate like the criminals and gang members they pursue and and theyre basically given a license to kill effectively acting as policeman and judge and jury and executioner in a matter of moments. ab tak chappan follows the story of sadhu agashe (nana patekar) and the encounter specialist based on naik. we see him at work and interacting with his fellow encounter specialists and engaging in violence. we see him at home and trying to live a normal life in his less than luxurious surroundings. we see him trying to adjust to a new commissioner halfway through the film. and we see his odd relationship with a notorious indian gangster and don zameer zafar (prasad purandhare). all of this has the potential to make a fabulous and gritty film. i agree that it nice to forgo the typical bollywood musical numbers and romances not every film needs that stuff while ab tak chappan producer ram gopal varma is famous for leaving music and romances in the background or by the wayside in many films that he directed or produced. additionally and ab tak chappan has some good performances patekar almost gives off a death wish (1974) era charles bronson vibe. it also has admirable cinematography the hand held stuff near the beginning of the film was particularly effective and for example. it has a great score that mixes more of a moody hollywood sounding action or crime score with traditional indian instruments and modalities. the violence is well done and gritty. there is also decent exploration of subtexts and including the morality of (having) encounter specialists and the idea of following orders and and so on. the encounter specialists are shown having to largely divorce themselves from ideas of right and wrong. more poignantly and the film questions the merit of blindly following orders. parallels are drawn between the encounter specialists following orders and and say and members of a country military and and were shown what a corrupt situation this can lead to. but (you just knew there was a but coming and do not you. ) director shimit amin and his scriptwriters have created a story with far too many characters and far too much sprawl and and that moves a bit too slow. all of these problems may be due to amin and crew looking at the godfather films and which ab tak chappan has some (at least superficial) resemblances to and although from a policeman perspective. most of the encounter specialists we do not get to know very well these are shallowly drawn characters to say the least and except for agashe and jatin shukla (nakul vaid). for one and narayan and i do not know who he was until at least halfway through the film. his name is mentioned a number of times and but i would only get glimpses of him until the scene would change. then everyone would change clothes by the time they appear again and i would have to start all over figuring out who narayan was. the same thing happened with agashe first commissioner. the film was already far into the new commissioner before i could figure out the relationships. it seems like there are new characters in every scene. we never learn the stories of most of them. while that might have some artistic merit in that the encounter specialists are mostly killing people they do not know anything about (because theyre mostly doing so on orders) and since we do not learn much about most of the encounter specialists and either and it difficult to find characters to care about and and that doesn not exactly make for a gripping film. the primary villain is zameer. but until about halfway through the film and there no indication of this. he doesn not get much more screen time than the other villains parading through the film and and he literally phoning his performance in he in another location (dubai) and communicating only by telephone for the majority of the film. we do not actually see zameer doing much. to an extent and the film depends on a couple twists that necessitate not showing zameer doing a number of things and but we could see him do other things and and a lot of the other villains could have been left out. that would have tightened up the film a bit and making it more focused and about a half hour shorter and both of which would have benefited its impact. this is not an action packed film by any means. for at least the first 45 minutes or so and i found myself admiring ab tak chappan considerable style and but saying and okay and get on with the story already. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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