Chal Mere Bhai

BRINGING UP BIG BROTHER
Everytime the young and ambitious producer Nitin Manmohan (son of the one-time well-known villain, Manmohan) produces a film, it becomes a major subject of conversation in all circles of film entertainment. Nitin

DAVID DHAWAN Director Complications, more complications between the brothers. The omplications? One girl, Sapna. Finally destiny decides who, between the two, will get her.

started at a very young age, learned the ropes of the trade as fast as he could (he was the first of the smart generation, the generation which first learns to do the impossible and then defies the world, its values and systems even daring, to say no to the most daring challenges he is faced with in any way, any subject which becomes a major issue in society they live in. “I always

wanted to be a filmmaker. I was not happy with the way Hindi films were being made ever since I remember. I decided to take on all kinds of challenges and even to make challenges my choices and make films which reached out to as many people as possible. Giving entertainment, quality entertainment of a very high kind (and by high kind I mean the kind which really makes every man who pays money to buy his ticket happy). That was how I started, just with an idea. That was how I worked and made my mark and that’s how Neha Arts, my banner has reached where it has today, certainly even my critics will agree. A banner to respect, a banner which hopes to fly high far higher than many of my contemporaries.

My latest involvement, Chal Mere Bhai, is a massive entertainer which has I can say very humbly several lessons to learn for the industry if it has to survive the crisis it keeps talking about and cribbing without finding the time or the inclination to find solutions to them. I have made Chal Mere Bhai, directly made under my supervision, of course my director David has always been a super source of inspiration. And the results have given me the satisfaction I have always been looking for in all my films. It is not a great film but it is a great fun film when it comes to fun in films, when it becomes a great family entertainer, which gives them joy which will last till they have realised the money they have spent on seeing Chal Mere Bhai. A great family entertainer is greater than a masterpiece or an epic, Nitin the man always on the move to make one more masterpiece his own way says. And that’s just what he has done in Chal Mere Bhai.

The story is about two brothers Vicky (Sanjay Dutt) and Prem Oberoi (Salman Khan). Their love for each other is better than the bonds between the best bonds among bonds of human relationships. Vicky is a business tycoon and looks after a group of multinational companies. He is serious, responsible, hard working. He cares for his family more than his business, he cares for his brother Prem (Salman Khan) specially. Prem wants to be an actor. He is interested in theatre, in music, in anything to do with entertainment. He is inspired by his brother Vicky and his grandmother Sushma Seth. His father, Balraj

NITIN MANMOHAN Producer I have made Chal Mere Bhai, directly under my supervision. Of course director David has been a super source of inspiration. And the results have given me the satisfaction I have always been looking for in all my films.

Oberoi (Dalip Tahil) is, however, against all this and says Band kar do yeh naach gaana. There is a crisis of emotions in the family. Sapna (Karisma Kapoor) appears for an interview for a job before the stern Vicky. He rejects her for lack of experience. Balraj Oberoi, (Dalip Tahil) however, loves her innocence, employs her as Vicky’s secretary. He is the chairman of the group of companies, after all.

Sapna is in jitters whenever she sees Vicky and does all the wrong things which irritate Vicky no end. Complications, more complications!
Prem meets Sapna through her uncle who works with Prem on stage. Prem knows that Sapna is working for his brother Vicky. Cruel circumstances lead Sapna to save Vicky who is badly hurt in a fight. Sapna gradually starts nursing Vicky. The entire Oberoi family take to Sapna and even take a liking for her and work out a plan to see that Vicky marries Sapna. But Prem is outsmarts their plans. He has already fallen in love with Sapna. Complications, more complications! Vicky recovers. His father and grandmother ask him to marry Sapna for all that she has done for him. Sapna is in a fix, an emotional fix. Vicky relents at first but finally agrees without knowing that Prem and Sapna are already in love. A little before Prem can tell his family about his love for Sapna he comes to know that Vicky has agreed to marry Sapna. Vicky makes Prem too agree that Sapna is the right girl for him. Complications, more complications between big brother and small brother.

The complications? One - Sapna. Finally it is destiny who decides which way life will go for whom. Will Prem sacrifice his life for Sapna. Will Sapna marry Vicky. Some more complications. But all is well that ends well. Complications that lead to solutions for all times. Love has to reach its destination if it is true love. Happiness spreads all around the Oberoi family. And you go home with a big bright smile on your face. If not, you are not supposed to be normal. The film is directed by “DD” David Dhawan for whom fun for every man has now become an ism, almost a religion. Shakti Kapoor, Asrani and Himani Shivpuri play other key roles. Music and lyrics are given new dimensions by Anu Malik and Sameer. Chal Mere Bhai is the kind of entertainment the vacations eagerly wait for and that is just when Nitin is planning to release the film, April 28.

Cinematography is by Harmeet Singh and if it is DD he has to have his entire team of technicians and artists down to the spotboy who know what fun means to their guru “DD”, the guru of fun. What a guru the industry has found in ‘DD!’

Ali Peter John