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Chef

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After Roshan Kalra gets fired from his job, he moves to Kochi to spend some time with his son, who lives with his ex-wife, Radha Menon. He connects with his ex-wife and she gives him the idea of starting a food truck to pursue his passion.

Critics Reviews

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Shubhra Gupta The Indian Express There are some interesting flavours here, but Chef feels derivative, and doesn't come together as a fully satisfactory dish. Rated: 2/5 Jul 12, 2019 Full Review Namrata Joshi The Hindu The dynamics of modern-day, urban associations are well-observed. It's the uneven, jagged and lazy tone of the film that lets it down badly. Jul 10, 2018 Full Review Swetha Ramakrishnan Firstpost Not only does Saif look dapper in the film, he possibly bagged the best performance too. Oct 10, 2023 Full Review Saibal Chatterjee NDTV Chef is a feel-good drama that benefits from the nuanced colour palette that cinematographer Priya Seth... brings to the table. Rated: 3.5/5 Jul 23, 2020 Full Review Anna M.M. Vetticad Firstpost Saif Ali Khan, who I believe is one of Hindi cinema's most underrated actors, needs to choose better. Rated: 1.5/5 May 8, 2019 Full Review Rahul Desai Film Companion This is the one time the garam masalas needed some "masala" filmmaking. By the time some of it appears towards the end - that of the airport-running scene variety - there is reluctance to its sterility. Rated: 2.5/5 Feb 28, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Meh. They took a great script made it Bollywoody and even that was bad. Bad Writing and Direction. Great acting went in vain. Saif needs to choose better. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Not actually a film critic, but maybe my review can help a bit, watched jon favreau chef twice i guess , both times felt good , the emotions felt real-had a connection to the movie twice so thats a really big deal, chef(2014) had its ups and downs, sometime the movie went drowning but it was also floating freely so i think it was ok-ok, but coming to the chef(2017) i felt the characters were trying really hard to push their limits, maybe they had a competition from the 2014 chef but this competition this comparison i think got them, and i think the movie went awfully down, because i watched sacred games before than chef(2017) so my expectations were a little high i guess, but i guess watching chef(2014) would be better, really better!! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member I suppose part of my rating is explained by the fact that I just don't like Saif Ali Khan. But it is even harder seeing a movie where he plays an angry not-so-young man, given that it doesn't suit him and also, no one is interested in another person's temper tantrums. Be that as it may, there are some uplifting moments in the movie - especially some of the scenes between the father and the son exploring various cuisines and also towards the end as it all comes together for the Kalra-Menon families. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member I had seen Jon Favreau's Chef and knew this to be the Bollywood rip over, well got to say they are two very different movies. While the plot premises is the same the storytelling differs, the Indian take is slow and all about father-son bonding, it does have few laughs but comes no were close to the fast-paced Hollywood version which besides covering the family angle is also a food adventure. For a movie titled Chef, it hardly covers the subject !!! Maybe if I had not seen the original I might have liked this more. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Not as good as the original, but worth watch and a good performance by Saif Ali Khan Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member I felt that Saif was not convincing as a Chef - all he is shown cooking in the movie is pasta. There are several awkward moments of silence in the film and with dialogues like "aur kya" (what else), it feels like the dialogue writer has run out of words. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis After Roshan Kalra gets fired from his job, he moves to Kochi to spend some time with his son, who lives with his ex-wife, Radha Menon. He connects with his ex-wife and she gives him the idea of starting a food truck to pursue his passion.
Director
Raja Krishna Menon
Screenwriter
Jon Favreau, Raja Krishna Menon, Suresh Nair, Ritesh Shah, Raja Krishna Menon, Suresh Nair, Ritesh Shah
Production Co
Legacy Pictures (II), Abundantia Entertainment, Create Entertainment, Bandra West Pictures, T-Series
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Hindi
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 6, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$53.6K
Runtime
2h 13m