Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai, releasing on Netflix today, is the newest movie from Anurag Kashyap, among the most well-known Indian directors internationally. That’s big because in the dozen or so films Netflix has made in (or acquired from) India so far, the streaming service hasn’t managed to land any A-list talent as the face in front or behind the camera.
Primarily because subscription-based online platforms like Netflix just don’t enjoy the same ubiquity or power in India as they do in more mature markets such as the US. Bollywood still focuses more on theatres and satellite rights to make most of its money. But that changes with Netflix’s latest Indian original film — Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai [Hindi for “money talks”].
Unfortunately, Choked never quite gets the most out of its material. And the minute it moves beyond the personal, it falters even more. The events of the Netflix film are set in late 2016, against the backdrop of the “colossal failure” that was demonetisation, as economists later called it.
Kashyap told Firstpost that he acquired Choked’s script in 2015 but he took to the film only after PM Narendra Modi’s unprecedented announcement. Unfortunately, Choked doesn’t have anything to say about the socio-political ramifications of demonetisation. Instead, it’s merely used as a plot device .
News Source: Thenewsalert
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