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Motichoor Chaknachoor
Director: Debamitra Biswal
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Athiya Shetty

The biggest achievement in India is leaving it.

An old joke, it has been told often but still hasn’t lost its sting. Perhaps because like all good jokes, its foundation lies in truth.

In Motichoor Chaknachoor, Athiya Shetty’s Anita Tripathi aka Ani has but one dream – to leave India for foreign shores and update her Facebook account with photos taken against the Statue of Liberty, or the London Eye or even the Burj Khalifa. If push comes to shove, she will settle for Pashupatinath Temple, but India will simply not do. She has decided she will marry a visa -- find a suitable boy who is settled in ‘phoren’ and relocate post the saat pheras.

In 135 minutes, Motichoor Chaknachoor director Debamitra Biswal takes the audience on a roundabout ride about this odd couple. The story is limited to the two adjoining houses and their various inhabitants. Biswal works well to use this limited setting populated by a cast of characters including Annie’s parents and unmarried aunt on one side, and Pushpinder’s pushy mother, his younger siblings and other members of a joint family on the other. Both houses are determined to get their respective offspring married – but not to each other!

Pushpinder’s domineering mother (Vibha Chibber) sees her two sons as lottery tickets who will command substantial dowries. Annie, on the other hand, is completely against dowry demands.