He announces that in a news telecast, all the stray dogs roaming about in residential buildings in Mumbai will be caught and terminated and gives an excuse that it is done so that Mumbai becomes safer- and declares the slogan as "Safe Mumbai and Safe Mumbaikar". He further informs that the dog can only be saved if the society files a NO OBJECTION CERTIFICATE within 1 month. Chillar party, shocked by this, strives hard to get the NOC- wherein they have to get at least more than 50% votes of the total residents in the society i.e. 31 votes. But they manage only ten votes after 15 days.
The Chillar Party is the story of a gang of kids like in any other society or school who hang around together. They feel violated with the entry of Fatka and Bhidu the dog. Liek any other kid gang, Chillar party tries to trouble the dog and Fatka but end up getting friendly with them and taking them in the gang.The movie strips the emotions naked with the scene in which the Chillar Party locks the dog inside a car and Fatka runs around looking for him. Bhidu is all Fatka has and the way he searches for the dog, its just emotional. The scene is sentimental and a classic heart melter. It teaches something in its own way. and its even more nice to see the kids realizing their fault and trying to make up for it in a innocent way.
A politician enters with a drive to get rid of stray dogs creating life miserable for Bhidu, the dog. The society members want Fatka to leave with his dog but the Chillar Party stands up in support of their friend. Together starts a unique campaign by kids where they take on adults and the society and the politicians in their own innocent unique style. And kids coming on road in chaddis with the Chaddi campaign. Even killer is when Janghya who never wears a chaddhi turns up wearing his dads, in rajni style.
Each boy in this gang of boys, or the chillar party" in this film by Nitesh Tiwari and Vikas Bahl, has a quirk. One is a nerd and hence nicknamed Encyclopedia. Another is Silencer, and another, Panauti. They are children who live in the same apartment complex in Mumbai and are a bratty bunch. They lose in cricket every day against a better team of older boys in a neighbouring housing society and are constantly ridiculed by adults in the building.
With the transformation of the boys into crusaders in the second half, the film plummets. The message becomes bigger than the children. Mumbai suddenly turns into a wonderland where thousands of children are marching in their chaddis as their helpless and shocked parents watch them on TV. An animated war of words between the chillar party" and the menacingly cruel local politician, the villain, on television heightens the melodrama.
The charmless Hashmi plays Goa racketeer Arjun, a former policeman who takes on any job that pays well. This time he has been hired by a pimp to investigate a curious case of missing prostitutes. While doing that Arjun has to also balance the expectations of his model companion, Priya (Jacqueline Fernandez), and battle against the police, which is not enthusiastic about his involvement in the case. But Arjun is determined to crack the case, and find not only the perpetrator but also his last teenage victim.
Hashmi brings nothing particular to the role except a bad hairstyle (a mullet in modern-day Goa?), while Fernandez looks adequately glamorous though her role requires fewer clothes than dialogues. The other performances are amateurish and the production values veer between Alfred Hitchcock and Ram Gopal Varma.
There are two positives in this thriller. The first is that Suri maintains a sharp pace to the proceedings, which never allows interest to flag, except in the latter half when he shows a long sequence of a drunk and troubled Priya. The director builds the suspense in some scenes so dramatically that you can feel your pulse racing. But perhaps the biggest reason to see this film is Prashant Narayanan. Kept out of the publicity to maintain an element of surprise, Narayanan is sinister, purely evil and magnificently deviant, raising the level of this film by several notches. With small movements of his facial muscles and his body language, he breathes life into one of the most menacing villains of contemporary Indian cinema.