Freaky Chakra (film)

Freaky Chakra is a 2003 Bollywood comedydrama film directed by V. K. Prakash and Ziba Bhagwagar. The film stars Deepti Naval and Sachin Khedekar. The film was Indias official entry for Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, and received recognition by the International Federation of Film Critics at the at 2003 Mumbai International Film Festival.

Writer Ranvir Shorey tells the story and introduces the story characters onebyone in a narrative style. Ms. Thomas Deepti Naval used to be a doctor and now works as a mortician. After her medical skills failed to save her husband, she decided to live alone and keep to herself. However various events continue to keep her at odds with reality she receives phone calls from a crank caller Sachin Khedekar who speaks to her in a raunchy manner mischievous children repeatedly run away after ringing her doorbell she is unable to bathe because her water does not operate and her apartment manager is so tired of her complaints that he blocks his ears with cotton. In her routine, she begins to look forward to each distraction. When an uninvited guest Sunil Raoh takes up residence in her home, the two eventually have a romantic affair, changing her life and her outlook.Because of its dealing with relationships between four persons, Times of India referred to the film as rectangular love story, as opposed to the cliched regular or triangular romantic stories that Bollywood generally churns out. The film created a stir after its release due to its dealing with one of the long time taboo subjects, age disparity in relationships with a woman on the older side. After its release, Times of India made note of a growing trend to depict such relationships more openly Using the characters of Deepti Navals Ms. Thomas in Prakashs Freaky Chakra, Juhi Chawlas Chandrika in Nagesh KukunoorsDeewarein, and Shabana Azmis Radha in Deepa Mehtas Fire as examples of a changing trend in Indian cinema, they wrote that Bollywood is now bent on giving the fairer sex a fair deal in sex. ........

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