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8/10
Jitu- The Actor
pratapchaudhry19 June 2020
Not for audience who like flashy cars, expensive sets, overacting from "bollywood stars"...etc etc.Simple and something a small town person can relate it.Thanks to OTT platform such underrated gems will make it to its target (mature and intelligent) audience. Thumbs up
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8/10
You shouldn't miss it!!
cdildaralom19 June 2020
It's such a refreshing movie,it lightens up your mood. Excellence of Jeetu bhaiya is beyond words. The music is so soothing and perfectly timed. The cinematography is impressive. Overall it's a really good watch.
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8/10
Simple small town story of paan wala..
maiyankpl19 June 2020
Jeetu fits really well in the role of small town paan wala who has a dream to do something on his own and make his name in the town. His luck started when a beautiful girl with her family shifted to a house in front of his paan shop. Romeo boys started to visit his shop and becomes Romeo adda of town. For full story please watch movie..😛
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7/10
Not Panchayat
rahul-lucky20 June 2020
Sonu Nigam's melodious song fits perfectly. Jeetendra Kumar and 5-6 characters done great job. Although the performances and background is similar to Panchayat, the script sometimes looses its grip. The ending is realistic and not like typical bollywood masala which ends with happy or sad way but loopholes in script does not let story succeeded.
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7/10
Jeetu!! ❤❤
himanishmehta-5498622 June 2020
A classic tale of silent romance with a flavour of rural culture, language and a great dose of laughter!! Movie is a refreshing watch and with a unique humour and style. Jeetu and all the cast rocks..! With excellent performances. Loved this tale do watch!! ❤
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9/10
Chhattisgarh simplicity with Shakespearean Daddys
drrajeevshukla19 June 2020
Growing up in Chhattisgarh & remembering actual guys around Pan shop in 80s-90s. Story is simple yet Nostalgic. Enjoy. The daddys are like Shakespearean characters of Maqbool. Smart writing. Those finding faults like toxic one sided love & all simply don't get it. The small town delight is wonderfully captured & Jitu bhai as usual is fantastic & seems rooted. There are no idiotic slo-mo chases & silly action sequences or a moral jingoistic tale here. It's simplicity captured well. Enjoy & you won't regret.
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6/10
Don't normalize creepy.
DesiBaba23 January 2022
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This movie kept showing up on my Netflix list, so eventually I watched. I like movies like this that show another side of India, the rural heart, with characters that are new and unique. However, this movie made me cringe as the characters were terribly cheap and creepy and lacking in basic morality. If the female were an independent woman in her late 20s, it might have been more palatable (e.g., she was sister of the officer who moved in, not his daughter). For these creepy "men" (really, they were just immature boys) to lust after a child (teenager who was still in school) was disgusting! All of them were psycho pedos- Billu, Anshu, Shila, school teacher guy...all of them. This movie seems to reinforce all the negative stereotypes associated with a rural man from that part of the country. Woman is not an object or a property. They had zero nobility in their conduct. I would have beat these goons the same way the police officer did. His actions, even though brutal and out of legal norms, were justified in this case before any harm could come to that child.
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9/10
Ek no movie hai daddy.😂
rohitsovale20 June 2020
Jitu is gem . After panchayat another stellar performance. It proves his verstality towards all kinds of roles. Storyline is good. Ending could have been better. Music is unique and have chattisgarhi touch. Over all a good watch.
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6/10
A good idea that is dragged too long
BingeKing4773 July 2020
The movie starts on a nice comedic tone with good characters. But, then it starts to get boring and running out of ideas. The main character makes weird decisions at the end that I feel like were added to deliver a kind of social message at the end, but did not quite stick for me.

Jitendra Kumar does a great job as the main character and the supporting cast is very good too. If only the writing would have gone in a different direction, and would have wrapped the movie up early, it would have been a great movie
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1/10
Pathetic
sjb-4879522 January 2022
The complete movie revolves around eve teasing a school going girl. The message of the movie was not clear, and felt more like the movie was promoting this behaviour, which is just outrageous. Did Jeetu not read the script before signing the movie ?
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9/10
Simple movie
syedalom-0649319 June 2020
With respect to it's budget the movie is good...and during this pandemic condition they released this movie... just simply but Good movie with simple story.. the cast are also Good....
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6/10
A Social Fable with Some Humour / 6 Stars
nairtejas28 June 2020
Chaman Bahaar (A Springtime Garden) looks like a satire of sorts as its starts with the story of an aimless bear-fearing man (Jitendra Kumar) who puts up a paan shop (a shop for selling tobacco-based products and candies) with the hope of making good money and earning a name for himself and his widower father. His plans soon go wrong but his life takes a critical turn whatsoever of another nature. He gets smitten by a young school-going girl (Ritika Badiani) and so starts his uncontrolled stalking, aggravated and influenced by more active stalking by tens of other men who sees as his adversaries.

In telling the story, the makers direct your attention towards the menace of lustful men preying on women regardless of their age or interest, especially in backward villages and towns, an example of which is the setting of Chaman Bahaar. In such a scenario, concepts of consent, permission, and mutual affection go out of the window, and the focus is merely on male ego, power aggrandisement, and ability. Evidently with the minute role that Badiani plays in this film about collective stalking. There's some humour here and there which works for the film, but the conclusion is kept ambiguous, preventing me from forming a direct comparison with Kabir Singh (2019).

Chaman Bahaar is moderately funny, and has been directed well with a good performance by the frontman. Its message is important and one that makes it essential viewing. TN.
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1/10
Pathetic storyline
siddharthsharma-740333 October 2020
A complete Waste of time... Story don't have any comedy moments.. actors were pathetic except jitendra.....
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6/10
Do not Objectify Woman
iamvivek15 August 2020
Do not Objectify woman and what type of scene director wants to create by mob of boys chasing a single girl while coming back home, no doubt in last culprit thrashed by police. Nothing new in movie except Jitu Bhai - Kota Factory (Web Series) wale - I watch only for him.
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6/10
Very Limited Plot & Also No Single Dialogue of Female Lead makes her a Women being Objectified
Hussain-AL-Naseer22 June 2020
Set in a small town the story is about a young aspiring man wanted to make his presence felt so he quits his job and starts its own setup which is basically 'Paan Ka Khoqa'. Infront of his setup there is a house where a family has been shifted in which there is a beautiful gorgeous young girl who despite of being in a small town wears Shorts & T-shirts and roams freely in town and without a doubt becoming a heartthrob to all the boys around and that's almost it about the movie i.e. very limited plot. The film has been written and directed by Apurva Dhar which is obviously very limited but still is 2hours long which makes it more mediocre with respect to its storytelling, it could have been better with entertainment's perspective if the movie could be summed up within 1.5hours because there are some LOL moments but not a single ROFL moment. Ritika Badiani as female lead has no single dialogue in an entire movie she has just been objectified to flaunt her beauty. Jitendra Kumar as Billu looked convincing but that was not enough.
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9/10
A realistic tale of affection in a small town
vikramj-3981720 June 2020
This is a completely refreshing take on affection, love, struggles of life. If you are going in, with an expectation of seeing yet another twisted fairytale which bollywood keeps churning out every year, then please avoid this movie as this director has chosen realism and logic over, dreamy sequences. This is a tale rooted in ground reality, which encompasses the journey of "panwaadi". His dreams, affection, challenges and growth and masterfully portrayed. The music of the film could have been much better though. Overall it's a great watch.
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7/10
One time watch
samadmarch19 June 2020
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The movie starts with Billu (Jitendra) resign from a job(taking care of a forest, more like a watchman). Than he wants to make his name in a city so he opened a pan shop name chaman bahar... But as the shop was in outer, no one used to be around but as soon as a family come to live opposite to his shop and their beautiful daughter becomes the attraction of the city... With every next person of the city being attracted to the girl, the story goes in a humorous drama... So it's a simple story which you can watch once but it's good it didn't release in the theatres.
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10/10
Kya haal hai daddy... Mind-blowing
sandipmalierl21 June 2020
What script and working of jitu bhaiya. We related directly ourself. No over herogiri simple and nice
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6/10
Objectify women's and normalize harassment
princevashishth7 August 2022
Film is decent movie but the huge issue is how they objectify a schoolgirl and just normalize the harassment of a school girl barely 18 even the teacher shows sexual interest on his student that's pretty creep.
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1/10
Nothing more than a sexual harassment
sairairfan-8633524 June 2020
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This movie is the worst! If people think this is comedy look deeper into the content and think again. Girl is an school student that makes her definitely younger than 18 i.e. a minor. Her SCHOOL TEACHER, and million other men from the city are fantasizing about her and trying to get a chance to look at her in shorts. Minor or not, this behavior should not be promoted in the name of a movie and worst a "love" story! I think the real hero of this movie is the police inspector.
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10/10
Don't watch the movies of Nepo kids and Salman Khan
manavmatt21 June 2020
I wonder why people don't prefer watching such entertaining movies of outsiders. It's way better than the craps of Nepo kids and Salman Khan.
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7/10
Jitu is the soul of the movie.
itsanilsati8 September 2021
This movie beautifully covers those days of our teenage when we used to go to tution and try to chase our love interest but the movies runs from the perspective of a panwari played by Jitu. He was just fabulous. Although not perfectly written, ending was not as satisfying as it can be.
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1/10
disgusting
aizajawadshaikh19 July 2020
Pathetic way to normalize harassing YOUNG girls These GROWN men are shown to stare at a young girl and follow her around like it's nothing. On top of that when a man is finally caught and jailed for defaming and staring at the girl, the city protests against that!! There's so much more wrong with this movie and the high rating truly depicts the indecent and disturbing mindset of our society. This "love story" was in no way "cute" or "romantic", it was outright uncomfortable to watch. The girl didn't even say A SINGLE WORD in this movie. All she had to do was look pretty so she could be a sight for tharki men. I didn't enjoy a single second of this movie.
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7/10
Worth Watching
rahulgirdhar-6592531 August 2020
Decent movie which is made worthy of being watched by the talented Jeetu.
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6/10
Not panchayat..doesn't meet expectation
dahikarmayur28 June 2020
Watching such high level panchayat series and. when you expect not that level of panchayat but little less..and when you watch chaman bahar you get dispointed..not upto mark..too much simplicity
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