Sagar Ballary wouldn’t have imaged that the runaway success of Bheja Fry would make it so difficult for him. Ballary’s Kachcha Limboo explores growing pains with a likeable protagonist but nothing works for the film.
13 year-old Shambhu (Taheer Sutarwala) seems to have trouble on every front. He can’t get along with his father (Atul Kulkarni), he has no real friends and everything he does ends up getting him into more trouble. He struggles to make friends but no one seems to look beyond the over weight kid who’s a chipku. The only person on his team is his mother (Sarika) but she too gets occupied with Shambhu’s baby sister. Wading his way through problems at school and home, Shambhu runs away from the world he knows to find his own place in the sun. He meets into Vitthal (Chinmay Kambli), a street smart lil one, who welcomes Shambhu into his world.
Kachcha Limboo gets one thing spot on- it doesn’t treat kids like kids. This is a film where the children don’t look like cardboard cutouts; they are very real. For the longest time Hindi films had no idea how to look at a children’s film and they often ended up looking stupid. Ballary gets his characters and situations right but what’s the point of that when you don’t know your own film.
The film meaninglessly frets on just about everything without sinking its teeth into something called a story! The problem with the film is that you just don’t know what is this all about and with chaotic childhood, puppy love and a million other things this isn’t a film about nothing! Sutarwala makes Shambhu very affable but had Ballary made the same effort with his story Kachcha Limboo would have been worth it.
Rating: 1 ½ out of 5
Cast: Taher Sutarwala, Atul Kulkarni and Sarika
Directed by: Sagar Ballary
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