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Chup Twitter Review and Reactions: Netizens give Dulquer Salmaan, Sunny Deol's thriller movie 5 stars

Chup twitter review and reactions: dulquer salmaan and sunny deol starrer thriller movie has enthralled the fans. know what the social media users are saying about the latest bollywood film..

Chup movie: What is it about?

Chup: Revenge of The Artist tells the story of a disgruntled artiste, who turns into a serial killer after his work is singularly panned by the critics. The artiste in the film goes on a killing spree as he murders the critics and as a signature, leaves a 'star' mark on their bodies resembling the numbers of stars that critics often give to films or shows. The movie's trailer received immense praise from the fans and now it is all set to hit the big screens.

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Netizens react to Chup movie

Chup's first reviews have been extremely positive. R Balki's direction and writing have won unanimous praise. Some social media users said that Chup is Dulquer Salmaan's best performance so far. Lavishing praise on Chup, one social media user said, "Its a brilliant film! This film is an Edge of the Seat Gripping Crime Thriller! Dulquer you are just fabulous as always! You nailed it! I love you Dulquer! I highly recommend this movie (sic)." Another one added, "Mind-blowing thriller film. Something very new with RAW and intense scenes Fabulous performance by @dulQuer It was a pleasure to watch him again after a wonderful film #SitaRamam Happy to see @iamsunnydeol sir back in form Must watch (sic)."

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Chup movie details .

The serial killer thriller Chup stars Dulquer Salmaan, fresh off his success in Sita Rama, who plays the film director, Pooja Bhatt, Sunny Deol and Shreya Dhanwanthary. The film, to be released on September 23, has been co-produced by Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Anil Naidu, Dr Jayantilal Gada (PEN Studios) and Gauri Shinde. The original story is by R. Balki, the screenplay and dialogues have been co-written by Balki, critic-turned-writer Raja Sen and Rishi Virmani.

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Chup review: Dulquer Salmaan gets a perfect score for bringing his A-game in R Balki's gory thriller

One cannot deny the fact that Chup: Revenge of the Artist is flawed, but R. Balki's charm with his work is undeniable and crisp.

Aishwarya Vasudevan

Last Updated: 02.22 PM, Sep 22, 2022

The story of Chup is about a psychopath killer who preys on movie critics. Mumbai is being rocked by a string of strange and disturbing murders. Every new film's release results in the weekly murder of cinema critics. In charge of the Mumbai Crime Branch, Arvind Mathur (Sunny Deol) has a case to solve. He tries to grasp the killer's thoughts in order to catch him with the aid of Zenobia (Pooja Bhatt), a criminal psychologist.

" Jane Kya Tune Kahi " is a romantic song from Pyaasa (1957) that is constantly played in Chup: Revenge of the Artist . The track shows an aloof Guru Dutt looking at a joyous Waheeda Rehman (sung by Geeta Dutt) while she sings her heart out. However, in the film, the song, even though it comes during a romantic sequence, is also an indication to the masses about how a filmmaker speaks about a film and how the audience/critics take it.

Chup starts off in the most thrilling way, and we just have to be prepared to see how one can be murdered in the goriest way. The first killing shows that the film is going to leave you on the edge of your seat, and there's no way you can turn around now.

R. Balki, the filmmaker, is known to bring twisted plots that are true to nature and execute them in the most entertaining way. We have seen him do that with Cheeni Kum, Paa, Ki & Ka , and more. Here, in Chup , he attempts something heinous that we have not seen before: a serial killer who is slashing film critics and marking their foreheads with stars.

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The assignment is understood and the execution takes the plunge in the right way. We've become accustomed to the gruesome visuals that cinema has reserved in every way thanks to the era of OTT, with less regulation. But with Chup , we just can't deal with it right then and there while preparing how the next murder will be performed.

The psychopath's nature is shown through patterns, such as taking a paragraph out of a review and performing the murder in exactly the same way. "Bang on with that execution!"

I, still being an amateur critic, was dreading how to perceive this film, with fear or just as another piece of art and a filmmaker's labour of love.

Chup is a film that pays homage to cinephiles who live, breathe, and sleep cinema. Their lives revolve around giving references to movies every now and then, watching movies, and even getting their hearts broken when movies fail to impress. The film shows all kinds of critics, from the world of print to videos; some are genuine, while others are paid. So how does the killer decide on his next target? He is such a film buff that he has not only seen Indian films but has also been exposed to global culture.

The psyche of the serial killer is kind of convenient, but hey, mental illness cannot be put into a box and the motive cannot be always justified. A movie lover can take cues from any of the films he has watched over the years or cook up a mission that looks like a perfect script to be made into a movie or a series in the future.

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There's no intended cat-and-mouse chase between Sunny Deol's character as investigating officer Arvind Mathur and the serial killer. But as the story unfolds, the pattern looks very interesting, so to speak.

On one hand, Deol's character is solving this man, who is making the world of movies a slaughterhouse with the killings of film critics. On the other hand, there's a love story brewing between Danny (Dulquer Salmaan), the owner of a flower shop, and an entertainment reporter, Nila Menon (Shreya Dhanwanthary).

Their love story in the first half gives another mysterious angle on how it's related to the serial killer. The first half thus runs parallelly well and leaves you intrigued. However, in the second half, the romantic angle doesn't help much with the story and makes you impatient to know about the hunt for the serial killer.

As mentioned earlier, Jane Kya Tune Kahi 's context in this film. Another beautiful song, Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam from Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), is also a kind of metaphor for Chup . We saw Guru Dutt never direct a film after Kaagaz Ke Phool , knowing how the film was heavily criticised for its content. He died just a few years after the release of the film. But now, times have changed, and the criticism has become harsher with the rise of social media too.

These metaphors work beautifully with Chup , as Guru Dutt is remembered with utmost respect and regret that he didn't get his due for his contribution to Indian cinema when he was alive.

However, a little criticism of Chup would indeed be a matter of convenience. The film slightly loses logic and seems fictitious in terms of giving the benefit of the doubt to the plot. It thickens once Zenobia (Pooja Bhatt), a criminal psychologist, comes into the picture. Her way of showing the "pattern" of the serial killer is kind of a known fact but is shown as a shocking twist in the film.

When it comes to performances, Chup is an out-and-out Dulquer Salmaan show. The actor is terrific in every scene, and you can't take your eyes off him. Knowing his body of work in the past decade, the actor has shown every shade in the films he has starred in, irrespective of the language. But the way Balki oozes out the more hidden talent he has is incredible to watch.

Sunny Deol as a cop is brilliant and brings back the charm he had with his performances in Damini, Ghayal, Ghatak and more. The one scene where he jumps off from the top floor and limps while he walks shows that he has aged but will never be less than the action hero he has been.

Pooja Bhatt's presence in the second half is just fabulous and proves how she has always been a talented actor. She deserves to be on screen more often.

Shreya Dhanwanthary looks promising with the way her character starts. But it just doesn't gel well as the film shapes up. The actor feels like a love interest who does have a role to play in the climax, but it is less impactful.

Saranya Ponvannan as the visually impaired mother of Shreya's character is just picture-perfect. She is the kind of millennial mother one would root for and want in their lives.

The music, which is a blend of the old-world charm of tracks from Guru Dutt movies composed by SD Burman and a modern twist by Amit Trivedi and Sneha Khanwalkar, sets Chup apart from the rest of the serial killer movies. Even the background score by Aman Pant is top-notch, which sets the thrilling pace just right. Even the constant sounds of crickets fit in perfectly between the songs.

Chup is a brave attempt by Balki in every sense, which he penned with former critic Raja Sen and Rishi Virmani. Brave for taking on a subject that no one had considered, braver for carrying it out by demonstrating how a film can be gory and uncomfortable to watch, and bravest for pulling off such a casting coup that will be remembered for a long time.

Chup: Revenge of the Artist has one scene which shows a poster saying "Woody Allen is innocent," which is equally disturbing to be present at a woman's house. That's another metaphor for how the film is designed to be. Moreover, Dulquer Salmaan takes the cake that Balki bakes and decorates it with a sharp icing.

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Chup Plot Synopsis

The 2022 psychological thriller Chup follows the story of a psychopath who is hell-bent on murdering critics that give movies unfavourable reviews without investing enough time to understand the motive of the filmmaker.

Inspector Mathur finds the bodies of popular critics with a star rating on their respective foreheads. After learning that these critics were killed and rated as per their last review of movies, he asks the Critics’ Association to stop reviewing movies negatively for a while. Now as a new movie is released, he asks the critics to write only positive reviews for the release.

How does Inspector Mathur find the motive behind the murders?

Despite Inspector Arvind Mathur’s insistence, Kartik, a film critic, chooses to write an honest review giving the movie a 1.5-star rating. The cops are sure that the psychopath will attack Kartik so Arvind and his team gather together to give him special protection waiting for the killer to arrive.

After waiting for a long time, Arvind gets a call from his subordinate informing him that another critic had been murdered and in Kartik’s stead.

Arvind wonders why the k m,iller chose to steer away from his regular modus operandi of killing reviewers who trash movies. The cops figure out that the psychopath only kills critics that give negative reviews to films without proper research. In this case, the killer attacked a critic that gave unnecessarily good reviews to a movie that was particularly bad.

Mathur also discovers that the psychopath kills these critics based on the plot of their reviews. If the critic gives the killer a good murder storyline, the psychopath chooses to murder that critic and in turn spares other critics that give equally critical reviews.

Who is Dr Zenobia? How does she help Inspector Mathur?

Together with the help of a renowned psychologist, Dr Zenobia, Arvind Mathur decodes that the psychopath is a troubled artist who dislikes the way in which movies are trashed by critics. She explains that the killer is extremely depressed and a way to channel his pain is by causing pain to others.

Dr Zenobia and Arvind together ask Kartik to help by making a list of all the filmmakers of recent times whose last movies received extremely poor reviews. Their aim is to find filmmakers who stopped making movies due to the negative reviews their films got over recent years.

How is Nila linked to the case?

Kartik asks Nila, an aspiring critic, to work on the article with him and the two are able to make a list of filmmakers whose last work was met with negative reviews. Meanwhile, Nila and Danny have gotten closer and she is suspicious that Danny is the killer who is murdering critics, left and right.

Nila starts doubting Danny when she spots film roll boxes in his house but he diffuses the situation by claiming that they were intended as a surprise for her. The two plan on meeting for a date that Thursday. Meanwhile, since Arvind wants to track the killer down, he urges some critics to purposely write incorrect reviews about a film that is to be released that week.

Since most of the critics are worried about their lives, Arvind asks Nila to volunteer since she is an aspiring film critic who is always kept on the sidelines due to her lack of experience. Nila initially agrees to do so, thinking that she will be able to start her journey as a critic and watches the movie.

Nila loved the movie and wants to give it a four-star rating but Mathur and Zenobia ask her to write a negative review for the movie asking her to give it a dramatic storyline good enough to invite the killer to murder. On the other hand, Danny is waiting for Nila to show up considering it was the night of their date but they are not able to connect.

Nila was initially excited about writing the review but soon comes to her senses about what she is going to do. She gets worried but her mother tries to get her to be courageous and do the needful to find the killer on the loose.

What does Danny do to Nila?

Once she writes an incorrect review, Inspector Mathur and his police team gather at her house, anticipating the killer to attack any time the following day. Danny watches the movie and really enjoys it. He waits for Nila to call after she ghosted him on the night of their date.

When he is about to take a call from Nila, he gets notified about the movie reviews for the film he just watched. He puts Nila’s texts/calls on hold and reads the reviews. He eventually comes down to a bad review of the movie that had an amazing storyline for him to bring to life. Danny is shocked to see that it was Nila who wrote the review, claiming it was so bad it “split her brain into 1000 pieces”.

Ready to do just that, Danny sets off to see Nila and tries visiting her house. Once there, Nila suddenly gets overwhelmed and asks Arvind to let her meet her mother. When she learns that Danny was here to meet her, she forces the inspector to let her boyfriend stay.

After convincing Arvind, Danny tries to calm Nila down and takes her to the bedroom. Inside, behind closed doors, Danny suffocates Nila using his usual plastic wrap method and throws her out of the window without the cops noticing a thing.

He makes a makeshift Nila out of pillows and covers it with a blanket to make it seem as if she were sleeping. Danny talks to Arvind outside the room and frustrates the inspector into kicking him out of the house. After leaving, Danny walks to the neighbouring building to collect Nila’s body and takes her to a secluded location where he ties her to a chair.

Arvind notices something off with Nila and Danny’s interaction and his team alerts him by saying that Danny has left his bicycle behind. Arvind puts two and two together and notices that Nila is not in the room. He jumps out of the window too in order to gauge where Danny may have dropped her. Arvind gets his leg injured in the process and rushes to find Nila.

What is the story behind Danny’s revenge?

Once he has captured her, Danny discusses the movie review with Nila. She claims that she was forced to give it a bad review just because they were looking for the killer. Danny states that bashing a work of art just for the sake of it is an injustice to any artist and claims that her 1-star rating for the movie would have been valid had she researched the movie a little.

Danny claims that the movie was a splitting copy of another foreign film and it wasn’t a novel plot, meaning the artist had stolen someone’s work. While he is about to kill Nila as per his plan, Arvind finds the two in mid-conversation and somehow saves Nila while shooting Danny and injuring him.

After that, Nila is taken to the hospital and Danny into police custody where his house is searched for evidence to pin him to the crimes. The cops find Danny’s biographical movie that was trashed by critics and they watch it along with Nila who is recovering from her injuries.

Who is Sebastian Gomes?

The film narrates the story of a young boy who grows up in a violent home where his father beats up his mother. When the boy intervenes trying to save his mother, the father ties the boy up and throws him into the basement. Out of a small window in the basement, the boy watches the old films that their neighbour watches.

The boy falls in love with filmmaking and grows older to fall in love with films. He himself also becomes violent and is also able to control his father whenever he tries to assault his mother. One day, his father kills their dog named Danny. As the child grows older, he comes to hate his father and as soon as he died, the boy finally buries his dead dog from years ago.

The boy is an adult now and wants to be a filmmaker. He works on his autobiographical movie and releases it as Sebastian Gomes. However, the movie is trashed by critics and becomes a huge failure in an instant. Nila weeps after seeing the tragic story of Danny who is the failed filmmaker, Sebastian Gomes.

What happens to Danny at the end of Chup?

While it is not clear where Danny is at the end of the movie, it is shown that he is in solitary confinement in what looks like a prison. He still hears the voices in his head. Danny gets his meal for the day wrapped in newspaper. He reads the news headline that states a renowned film critic had passed away due to Covid.

Danny starts rejoicing before the other voice in his head asks him to stop and be considerate. The movie ends with Danny smiling to himself as one of Guru Dutt’s old songs plays in the background.

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Film review: ‘Chup: Revenge of the Artist’ led by Dulquer Salmaan strikes hot and cold

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R Balki shines the spotlight on a dark and twisted mind in his sobering thriller ‘Chup’

How do you review a bloody thriller about a brutal serial killer who hunts down film critics and slices them open for their written words?

A whole lot of trepidation and a smidgen of survivor’s guilt, I say.

But jokes aside, director R Balki’s atmospheric ‘why-dunnit’ transports you into a dreamy-yet-dreary world of a florist recluse Danny (Dulquer Salmaan) living in the metropolis if Mumbai with a gore-happy serial killer on the loose.

The rakish and reserved Danny, with his tousled hair and nervous energy, talks more to his carefully-tended flowers than his customers.

He’s socially awkward and tense, but his sombre existence blooms when a twentysomething entertainment journalist Nila Menon, played efficiently by Shreya Dhanwanthary, walks into his nursery/store.

Sparks fly instantly and they embark on this sweet and meditative adventure of discovering each other. Guru Dutt’s haunting melody from his critically-mutilated classic ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’ lends incredible atmospherics to their monsoon rendezvous. The effective background score and the moody visuals work.

But their whimsical love story is playing out in a city that’s being terrorised by a serial killer who chooses his victims based on their film reviews and star ratings. ‘A critic’s critic’ is how the cop (Sunny Deol) describes the deviant mind. It’s a definite dampener, but these two young guns seem immune to it largely as they lean into each other.

After every kill, the violent murderer carves out a star rating on his prey’s forehead. The degree of violence and gore is directly proportional to the killer’s critiquing of their review. If it doesn’t pass muster, then your death shall be more grotesque and violent.

From very early on, we are given broad cues on who the killer is, but the focus is largely on what triggered those bloody and brazenly butchering episodes. The body count is mounting and the serial killer is getting emboldened with each target.

When it comes to setting a scene and building a tense tone of a film, nobody does it better than director R Balki. The cloudy skies and the murky weather is a fair match to the dark, disturbed, and warped mind at work. The build-up is real and raw.

But be warned, it’s a thriller that takes its own time to unravel and the violence on display is not for the faint hearted. The critics — mostly ageing rotund males — who are perhaps just doing their job shabbily, meet undignified ends. Their crime and punishment is unevenly balanced.

But it’s the assured acting by the lead pair — Salmaan and Dhanwanthary — that makes this dark thriller with a wicked sense of humour throb with life. Both are in impressive form and have an easy chemistry. Both exude an aching vulnerability and are an emotional minefield.

Barring cinephile and Guru Dutt groupie Dhanwanthary’s questionable poster choices that has ‘Woody Allen is Innocent’ emblazoned on it (for those in the dark, acclaimed filmmaker Woody Allen has been accused of sexually abusing his daughter, an allegation that he has consistently denied), she exhibits a good grip on her character. Her equation with her sassy specially-abled mother (Saranya Ponvannan) is wonderfully captured. While these actors seem to be marching to tunes of subtlety, a bit of star dust appeared in the form of Sunny Deol.

Deol as the cop facing the heat for the rise in crime under his watch exercises considerable restraint, but he lets loose towards the end and succumbs to overdramatic histrionics. Just when you think that the high-decibel stereotype around Deol had faded, he’s back in his screechy hyper-masculine role screeching ‘bastard’ and jumping off a building in rage after he’s outwitted by a criminal. All the good work that he did when it came to being sardonic was undone with that melodramatic screech.

Sunny Deol plays a cop in 'Chup: Revenge Of The Artist'

Actress Pooja Bhatt on call as an expert on serial killers’ psychology does what’s on the tin, but her dialogues sometimes appear contrived. But she nailed the part where she questions the cop about manipulating an idealistic journalist to pose as a prey for the serial killer. The film is filled with some shining moments, but there are bits that appear laboured. The climax, that’s supposed to provide us with all the answers, is underwhelming and pedestrian.

Perhaps it’s the makers’s bid to humanise the serial killer that doesn’t land well.

His motives seem almost romantic, making you forget that here’s a desperate sick man who bludgeons someone to death because he’s narcissistic and is averse to criticism — constructive or otherwise. His back-story isn’t wholly convincing and the ease with which he carries out his murders makes it look borderline silly. But if you can silence those thoughts, then you might enjoy this thriller that’s adequately sly and sobering.

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Chup: Revenge of the Artist is a psychological crime thriller film starring Sunny Deol as Crime Branch Mumbai Head Arvind Mathur, Dulquer Salmaan as a florist Danny, Shreya Dhanwanthary as Nila Menon, an entertainment reporter, Saranya Ponvanna as Nila’s mother and Pooja Bhatt as Zenobia, a criminal psychologist. The film was written and directed by R Balki. The director penned the screenplay with Raja Sen and Rishi Virmani.

The cinematography is by Vishal Sinha and the editing is done by Nayan H K Bhadra. Aman Panth has composed the background score, and the songs are composed by Amit Trivedi, Sneha Khanwalker and SD Burman. The movie is produced by Hope Production and distributed by Pen Marudhar Cine Entertainment. The runtime of Chup is 135 minutes approx.

Chup Movie Review Contains No Spoilers

Chup: revenge of the artist review: plot, discussion.

In Chup: Revenge of the Artist movie, a serial killer murders film critics for their reviews. He carves the number of stars they give in their reviews on their forehead. It’s one of a kind case for the Mumbai Police, who have no idea where to start and who to suspect. What is the reason for the madness and the hate for film critics? Is film criticism good or bad? R Balki answers a lot of questions in his style.

Movie making is a personal experience, and so is watching the same. When a director makes a movie, he shares his vision, ideas and perspective with the world. As a viewer, you either submerge in the story entirely or connect with the parts of it. However, as a critic, your job is to judge how much of the emotions, portrayals, and ideas make sense or how they could’ve been better.

Criticism can make and break someone’s spirit. In Chup , Balki constantly reminds us of how the critics trashed Guru Dutt’s Kaagaz Ke Phool , which was very personal to Dutt. The excessive negative criticism affected Guru sir so much that he stopped making movies and suffered mentally. Now, we meet a man who wants to seek revenge for the artist he loves the most.

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By keeping murders of film critics as the base premise, R Balki has struck a balance of good and bad sides of criticism. He smartly indicates that not every review is authentic. But he tells how necessary it is, not only for the public but for filmmakers. The director has put forward these points very well with a surprise cameo.

The story feels like you are watching a movie in a movie with tension in the air. There are flowers, romance, rain, music and good-looking characters. There are conversations about how movies make life better and how reality is quite sad. You’ll be delighted to see several movie references, classic songs, and easter eggs.

Chup Review: Performances

Dulquer Salmaan is charming and terrifying as Danny in the Chup movie. It’s his third Hindi movie, and he has again delivered a knockout performance. His madness, sweetness and maniac side will keep you engrossed. Balki penned a complex character like Danny with great attention and you are invested in his actions and life.

Sunny Deol brings a tremendous impact and intensity with his character Arvind Mathur. His search for the serial killer is quite frustrating, and one can sense that through the screen. However, I wish there were more scenes between the cop and the culprit. Shreya Dhanwanthary represents many of us – movie lovers who want to fall in love in a filmy style. The actor has done a good job as Nila.

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Actor Saranya Ponvannan plays Nila’s mother, a woman who is blind but lives a colourful life. She’s full of energy and very cool. Pooja Bhatt has done a good job as Zenobia. I want to see her solve more such serial killer cases with Sunny Deol as a cop.

Chup Review: Final Thoughts

Overall, the makers have taken a great risk by telling the tale of Guru Dutt’s cinema and its impact on a person in today’s time. But the movie is a winner, thanks to the compelling narrative, top-notch performance and good music with great insight on filmmaking and film criticising.

It’s a must-watch for the love of cinema, for the adoration for good performances and amazing stories.

The movie releases in theatres on September 23. Book your tickets here .

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This is the best of best film I have ever seen in my whole life. Mujhe lagta hai sabhi filmo ko uski ratings audiance ko Deni chahiye chahe wo 1 star ho ya phir 5 star. Kiu ki audiance ke liye hi to film bante hai, agar hum audiance us film ko Bina dekhe hi sirf aur sirf ratings per based karke na dekhe to kya fayda. Humhe us film ko dekhna chahiye, dekhne ke baad hum use ratings denge. Wo vi honest review. Hume pata hai ki Jo ratings dete hai unhe to film ke producers, actors koyi bhi Paisa khila sakta hai, magar hum audiance ko kabhi nhi... Chahe wo koyi bhi bada actor ho hum audiance ke Bina uska koyi namo nishan Tak nhi hai. Hum hi unke plus point hai aur minus point bhi. Mind it <br/>And I have this movie 5 out of 5 stars ❤️

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The script of the movie and the title is so justified but few loopholes were there in the execution. The split personality of the actress in the first half completely vanished in the second half. And then how the killer got the victims at those murder sites was not clear. Except these all the actors were so accurate in their roles specially Salman and sreya . I completely loved the love story how it goes slowly and then got intensified . The dialogues were good , the plot and the cast were at the point . And yes I am ignoring the well predictable story line and all of know who was the killer from the first but the movie really wanted the audience to know that fact ... Over all the movie was worth watching. The ending could have had a twisted story like the protagonist killed the actress then got caught but I was really asking for a happy ending so yes it is a good movie to watch...enjoy ��

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Chup: Revenge of the Artist movie review: Dulquer Salmaan is better than the Hindi films he’s choosing

Chup’s story of a serial killer who targets critics is spun into a tribute to Guru Dutt. The idea is interesting but the film fails to grasp the essence of the late legend’s magic.

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A thriller on a serial killer who targets critics – I had a good laugh when I learnt of the theme of Chup: Revenge of the Artist since it sounded like certain filmmakers’ fantasy more than a concept for a film. It took me back to an interview in which director Rohit Shetty had told me he views critics as “frustrated people” and “vultures”, adding: “…a few of them are even scared to meet me because they know that the moment I meet them, I’m going to thrash them and go to jail for a day.” (Source: The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic )

So yeah, the theme is unwittingly funny although it is dead serious. For the record, Chup is not directed by Rohit, but by R. Balki ( Shamitabh , Ki & Ka , Padman ) who has also written the story. The screenplay and dialogues are by Balki, Raja Sen and Rishi Virmani. And the mystery in the foreground is spun into a tribute to the film icon Guru Dutt whose Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) was famously trashed by critics and rejected by the audience, only to attain a cult status decades afterwards. He never officially directed a film again but is rumoured to have ghost directed the ones he produced in subsequent years, before dying tragically in 1964.

Guru Dutt’s biography is made-for-cinema material, but that is not what Chup is. The story does, however, feature elements from the filmmaker’s life, it overtly references his oeuvre, and in its technique and narrative style takes inspiration from the late legend.

A senior Mumbai policeman ( Sunny Deol ) in Chup is desperately trying to solve a series of gruesome murders of film critics. While he conducts his investigation, in the same city a young journalist called Nila ( Shreya Dhanwanthary ) dreams of becoming a critic. Nila meets a florist (Dulquer Salmaan), and they are immediately drawn to each other.

In the first half of Chup , Balki succeeds in creating an atmosphere of intrigue, with a blend of a deliberately languorous pace that is a curious contrast to the urgency of the police’s task, Vishal Sinha’s cinematography that is designed to hark back to the great V.K. Murthy’s play with light and shadow in Guru Dutt’s works, and memorable old Hindi film songs including Jaane kya tune kahi . The suspense lasts for a while after the murderer’s identity is revealed much earlier than you might expect, because the question of why and how next remain.

Despite this, the film’s grip loosens considerably as it rolls along, due to the weakness of the love saga at the centre of these proceedings. Chup is not constructed as a how/whodunnit or a police procedural, and its impact is heavily dependent on the appeal of Nila’s gradually developing bond with her handsome boyfriend whose eccentricities are made known to the viewer early on but not to her. The scenes with them, however, seem more focused on looking and sounding like an old-world screen romance than feeling right. Shreya and Dulquer are both capable of fine acting, but any emotional resonance they might have achieved is overshadowed by the director’s preoccupation with ambience and appearance.

The starting point of their affair is off-putting. When she is still no more than his customer, he follows her home, and one day lands up at her house with a bouquet. Instead of getting creeped out and/or terrified by such stalking or at the very least, being wary of him as almost every woman I know would be, she invites him in.

Chup gets other things right. Its critique of criticism is largely on point, taking on financially corrupt reviewers, those who act like astrologers predicting a film’s box-office fate, and those with insufficient knowledge of cinema, all this without coming across as a condescending lecture and without caricaturing individual critics or lampooning the job. Chup is off the mark though in its portrayal of gender diversity in the profession, depicting the overwhelming majority of Mumbai/Hindi film critics as male, which is not the reality.

In an era when Christians have more or less disappeared from Hindi cinema, Chup gives us a rare protagonist from this religious minority, that too a chap who is shorn of the cringe-worthy stereotypes of pre-1990s Hindi film Christians back when the community was a familiar presence in stories. The late arrival in Chup of a second significant Christian character who is an alcoholic gave me pause, since drunkenness was once part of the stereotype, but the normalised representation of the hero without his religious background being over-emphasised has the effect of turning the other man into just another person with a drinking problem rather than a fellow fitted into the long-prevalent template of Tony The Drunk with the open shirt and massive cross on his chest who would say “ hum God se bolta ” and “ hum pray karenga ”.

The leading lady is southern Indian and of mixed parentage, another primary player’s name suggests that she is Parsi, again both are written and acted sans stereotypes.

That said, Pooja Bhatt’s character has a terribly politically incorrect, fat-shaming explanation for how she arrives at the gender of the murderer, and while I don’t know if psychologists would agree with her analysis, the tacky manner in which she conveys the point had me sorely missing the intelligent dialogue writing of the American series Criminal Minds that is focused on serial killings. Pooja’s Zenobia, who specialises in the study of serial killers, gets some of the film’s most poorly written lines, and her acting makes them even more awkward.

Sunny Deol is unusually restrained in Chup until a Gadar -esque moment that ruins everything for him and is strangely out of character for the policeman he plays, when he screams the word “bastard” into emptiness and leaps out of a building in anger.

Chup never fully rises above being interesting in theory. At one point, Nila makes a crucial career decision that should, logically, have had a strong influence on the murderer’s plans, but surprisingly, despite a build-up, does not. And the revelation about this violent person’s motivations are clearly intended to be moving, but I found myself struggling to care.

Even Chup ’s prettiness wears thin early on. V.K. Murthy’s lighting and cinematography always served to enhance the mood of a film while lending an aura to its characters and luminescence to their faces. Chup achieves the former in its pre-interval portion, but does not have the same visual outcome. And in the end, when Dulquer is called upon to replicate Guru Dutt’s body language and postures from well-remembered scenes, the effort is strained.

DQ, as the young superstar is known to fans, has made some excellent choices in Malayalam cinema during his decade-long career, with forays into Tamil and Telugu that have stood him in good stead. He is way better than any of the Hindi films he has done. Despite its positives, Chup ’s aspirations to grandeur make it far less engaging than its uncommon theme might suggest. Balki’s film fails to grasp the essence of Guru Dutt’s magic, which was rooted not merely in the beauty of visuals and music, but in the ability to use both to capture the pain, mischief, sense of humour, love and longing of his characters with empathy. In contrast, Chup feels distant from its characters and uninvolved.

Rating: 2.5 (out of 5 stars)

This review was first published when Chup! Revenge of the Artist was released in theatres in September 2022. The film is now streaming on Zee5.

Anna M.M. Vetticad is an award-winning journalist and author of The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic. She specialises in the intersection of cinema with feminist and other socio-political concerns. Twitter: @annavetticad, Instagram: @annammvetticad, Facebook: AnnaMMVetticadOfficial

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After Akshay Kumar's 2018 film PadMan , R Balki's next is a psychological romantic thriller titled Chup: Revenge Of The Artist. The film which is scheduled to hit the big screens this Friday (September 23), features Sunny Deol, Dulquer Salmaan, Pooja Bhatt and Shreya Dhawanthary in leading roles.

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Writer: R. Balki, Raja Sen, Rishi Virmani

Cast: Sunny Deol, Dulquer Salmaan, Shreya Dhanwanthary

Fifteen minutes before the first show of Chup: The Revenge of the Artist was due to start, the theatre in a multiplex in suburban Mumbai looked desolate. There were barely six people scattered across the hall, which seemed odd for a film that had seen record advance bookings . However, by the time the film began, practically every seat was filled. There was a hum of expectation in the air. “The ticket’s for Rs. 75 and the movie has Sunny Deol. Banta hai, boss,” said one audience member before unleashing enthusiastic catcalls for Hrithik Roshan, who appeared on screen in the Vikram Vedha trailer.

Sunny Deol is definitely one of the better features of Chup, a mystery set in Mumbai, featuring a serial killer who is targeting film critics. Deol plays Arvind, a taciturn cop who is heading the investigation. The first murder leaves a tubby film critic sitting on the toilet, naked. His dead body has been slashed multiple times and his modesty is protected by a roll of toilet paper. This is just the beginning. Two more spectacularly gory murders follow, with stars carved on the critics’ heads to mimic the star rating system of reviews. (We’d just like to state for the record that Film Companion stopped doing star ratings years ago, possibly before Chup was a twinkle in director R. Balki’s eye.)

As the bodies of film critics start piling up, Arvind tries to figure out who is behind these elaborately staged crimes. Meanwhile a young entertainment reporter named Nila (Shreya Dhanwanthary) is introduced to the story with the sole purpose of being bait for the serial killer. Before she can fulfil this function, she provides some distraction from the murders when she walks into a quaint little flower shop and finds herself faced with tulips and Dulquer Salmaan. Salmaan plays a florist who seems to live a dream life — he has a bungalow in Bandra and no boss breathing down his neck while he potters around the nursery in his home. However, as any one with a dating life will tell you, when a single man seems too good to be true, chances are you’re going to regret having dated him. Or as one young man in the audience put it during intermission, “See, you go for a guy who looks like Dulquer, this is what happens. This is why aam janta like us are better. What you see is what you get.”

There’s a lot to be said for watching movies in a packed theatre. The crowd for Chup was mostly college-going young adults who were far more irreverent and outspoken than reviewers tend to be. For instance, they shushed and “chup”-ed each other loudly when they were bored. The audience didn’t hesitate to burst out in laughter when a dead body appeared, hanging on a wall like a painting. The scene is intended to be shocking, but it gave the crowd giggles. So they giggled. When Nila meets the florist for the first time and walks off without paying for the flowers he’s given her, someone said, “Don’t worry. She’ll come back. Palat has to happen.” “Haan but without dialogue, because it’s Chup ,” said someone else.

The film flitters between murder mystery, romance and slasher horror, as though hoping shifting genres will confuse the audience enough to make us lose sight of how obvious the identity of the serial killer is right from the beginning. However, a good mystery can be about the whys rather than a whodunit. In its first half, the film does set up some intriguing questions about the way the murders are carried out and the motivation of the serial killer, but the answers are mostly disappointing and unconvincing.

Chup is entertaining enough so long as you don’t start thinking about logic and plot. Once you do, it teeters between absurd and silly. The killer is clearly disturbed and delusional, but why have they started killing now? What’s flipped the switch to murder in their head? How did the killer find the alone time needed to carry out elaborately grisly affairs like dissecting a body on a cricket pitch and scattering organs all over the field? What made the killer pick these particular critics? Chup answers only one of these questions. Arvind brings on psychologist Zenobia Shroff (Pooja Bhatt) to help him find the killer and she arrives at the conclusion that the critics who made the cut (pun intended) are the ones whose writing provided “a script” to the serial killer. Yet the final reveal suggests the killer was more than capable of scripting their own story.

Not only does Chup steadily lose the plot after intermission, the film is also awkwardly structured. There’s a whole film within the film that arrives like an add-on featurette. It’s supposed to be an autobiographical work of unrecognised genius — like Guru Dutt’s Kaagaz ke Phool (1959) — but it doesn’t seem particularly well-made and the parallel feels forced. Balki is lucky to have two actors who are charismatic enough to make the audience look past the hapless writing. Whenever Deol and Salmaan are not on screen, Chup sags and the holes in the plot become woefully obvious. Deol has some good scenes, including some moments of droll comedy, and we fervently hope that he will be cast in more films that require him to holler “Baaaaastard!” Salmaan provides all the eye candy you could ask for and manages to deliver an acting performance that is the right balance of chilling and charming. There are parts of Chup that are rich with menace and tension, but these are too few for a film that is supposed to be a thriller. By the time we reach the climax, it seems as though the film’s writing team had had enough — so much so that they chuck logic out of the window (somewhat literally).

At the end of Chup , while leaving the theatre, one young woman said to her friend, “It’s good timepass but if I’ve learnt something from this film, it’s ki online dating hi best hai.” The audience had spoken.

Chup: Revenge Of The Artist Trailer - Sunny Deol, Dulquer Salmaan And An Unsolved Case

Chup: revenge of the artist , starring dulquer salmaan and sunny deol, will release on september 23.

<i>Chup: Revenge Of The Artist</i> Trailer - Sunny Deol, Dulquer Salmaan And An Unsolved Case

Finally, the makers have dropped the trailer of Chup: Revenge Of The Artist , starring Dulquer Salmaan, Sunny Deol, Pooja Bhatt and Shreya Dhanwanthary. Helmed by R Balki, the romantic psychological thriller is a homage to legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt and his 1959 classic movie Kaagaz Ke Phool . The trailer opens with Sunny Deol, who plays the role of a cop, saying, "Sir, we have got a new kind of serial killer who is giving stars to people who give star ratings. A critic's critic." In the film, he is on a mission to track down a serial killer who carves stars (gives rating) on the forehead of victims' bodies.

Next in the trailer, we see moments of romance between Dulquer Salmaan and Shreya Dhanwanthary, interspersed with scenes of gruesome murders. Towards the end of the trailer, Dulquer can be heard talking about Guru Dutt's movie Kaagaz Ke Phool , " Unki sabse personal aur best film ko critics ne trash kar diya. Depressed hokar unhone koi film hi nahi banayi. (His best and most personal film was trashed by the critics. He got depressed and didn't make the films after that." Then, the song Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaaye Toh from the movie Kaagaz Ke Phool starts playing in the background and scenes of Sunny Deol searching for the killer are shown.

Watch the Chup: Revenge Of The Artist trailer below:

Dulquer Salmaan also shared the trailer on his Instagram handle and captioned it as "Are y'all ready for this ?". Check out the post below:

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Chup: Revenge Of The Artist is co-produced by Pranab Kapadia and Anirudh Sharma. It is slated to release on September 23.

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“One of the wonderful explorations of the film is this isolation that comes from [having children], and the transformation of motherhood and parenthood is something that is a shared experience, and yet it isn’t shared,” Adams remarked during the Q&A section after the film. “So, it’s such a gift to get to be a part of sharing that with you all, and getting to share it through the process of creation of making the film.”

The film, which explores the strange transformation of Adams’ character as she may be turning into a dog, generated laughter but also audible reactions during graphic scenes of tail-cutting, menstruating in the shower and the murder of a house cat. While the film is set to open in a prime awards slot, Adams, with her six Oscar nominations, may be barking up the wrong tree with “Nightbitch,” which has received a rather “ruff” response.

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The new Hallmark Channel rom-com His & Hers stars network fan faves Lacey Chabert and Brennan Elliott as married lawyers hired to represent a divorcing reality TV couple. But rather than testing their own marriage, the case solidifies their relationship and ultimately makes them realize how lucky they are to have one another.

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Opening Shot: Establishing shots of New York City. A woman (Lacey Chabert) in a red power dress walks into a conference room of her office and declares, “Let’s get started.” A man in a suit (Brennan Elliott) walks into a different conference room and says, “Alright, are you ready to get started?”

The Gist: His & Hers stars Chabert and Elliott as married lawyers Dana and Mark Chernich; they are both peppy and perky (a la Rob Lowe’s character Chris Traeger from Parks & Recreation ), always positive and looking for the bright side of things. They converse using lawyer-speak, as when they bring up their pet peeves by referring to them as items on a docket that need clearing. They’re basically just good-natured cornballs who are also very good lawyers.

One day they are each hired, separately, by Tabby and Brett Noble (Stephanie Bennett and Clayton James), a famous couple known for the reality TV shows that have chronicled their lives since they were teens, who are in the midst of a bitter, public divorce. If Dana and Mark represent some kind of schmoopy couple stereotype, Tabby and Brett are caricatures of vacant 21st century pseudo-celebrities. They only care about things like green juice and LED light therapy and leg day. And they both want to take each other DOWN.

Since Mark and Dana are consummate professionals, they don’t reveal their new clients to one another until eventually it becomes inevitable. But just because they’re happily married and each of their clients wants to rip the other’s throat out and take them for all their worth doesn’t mean things need to get contentious with their legal counsel, right?

As they two legal teams work against each other, Dana and Mark start to learn things about one another that they never knew thanks to background checks and being forced to discuss personal subjects that have never come up before. While it seems at first like heir case might throw into question their own relationship and whether their perfect-seeming relationship has all been a facade, things never get too dire. Because when it comes down to it, working with these reality stars makes them realize how lucky they are to have each other.

Our Take: His & Hers is, it turns out, the exact kind of comfort comedy many of us are looking for at the end of a long day when you want to turn your brain off. And I mean that in the very best way. While it seems at first like the two leads are going to be suffocatingly sweet and cutesy for the whole movie, it turns out they’re both actually really funny and are the perfect foils for the over-the-top reality couple they’re paired with. In one scene, Lacey Chabert even gets the chance to make a very funny prank phone call that gives shades of Gretchen Weiners in Mean Girls during the famous four-way phone call.

Just when you think there’s going to be actual relationship drama between Mark and Dana when their secrets start spilling out, that friction doesn’t last long and the actors clearly seem to relish getting to play up the absurdity of their situation. The movie doesn’t only focus on the relationship between Mark and Dana though, there’s also a clever twist when we learn that Brett and Tabby made up their entire divorce to sell their latest reality show.

With so many legal dramas out there in the world, this movie is making me wonder why we don’t have more legal comedies. The movie has the cozy charm that’s baked into most Hallmark movies, but an elevated sense of humor – something that can elude many Hallmark movies – filled with jokes that Elliott and Chabert execute perfectly.

Parting Shot: It’s one year later. Mark and Dana have both quit their law firms and started a new firm together. Partners for life. We see what it’s like inside their new office and when Dana stands, we see that she’s pregnant. Mark puts his hand over Dana’s belly and declares, “You feel that? It’s a prosecutor!”

Performance Worth Watching: Clayton James, who plays Brett, is exceptionally good as the vapid, seemingly empty-headed reality doofus who actually is (slightly) more substantive than he seems. But his take on the “bi-coastal bro” archetype adds a genuinely funny element to the film.

Memorable Dialogue: “We’re on a hiatus. We’re just looking for the right fit for us in the current, flailing, content environment,” reality star Tabby tells Dana, describing her life with Brett.

Our Call: STREAM IT. I OBJECT to anyone who doesn’t think this movie is an absolute delight. Is the premise of two lovey-dovey lawyers who constantly speak in legalese to one another pretty stupid? Totally. Is it played here with a wink and complete self-awareness that makes the movie a smarter-than-you’d-expect comedy? For sure. More than just a charming romance, the film is a comedy that delivers real laughs.

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‘His Three Daughters’: three powerful performances

Carrie coon, elizabeth olsen, and natasha lyonne star in this netflix film about sisters who come home to care for their dying father.

From left: Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon, and Natasha Lyonne in "His Three Daughters."

The father in the Netflix film “His Three Daughters” is dying of cancer, a tragic scenario that brings together the women he helped raise. They take turns sitting by his bedside and awaiting the inevitable in the Brooklyn apartment where they grew up. Until a scene late in the film, we don’t see the dying man; he’s represented only by the incessant beeping of the machines monitoring him. It’s as if the film is conditioning us for the moment those beeps cease.

The sisters have unfinished business with one another; misunderstandings and hidden grudges abound, each exacerbated by the stressful situation. The vast differences in their temperaments will be recognizable to anyone who’s ever had a sibling.

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Katie (Carrie Coon), the oldest, is a bit of a control freak. She bosses her sisters around when she’s not arguing with her rebellious teenage daughter on the phone. She complains about always having to play bad cop to her husband’s good cop. Director Azazel Jacobs gives Katie the opening scene of the movie, filming her in front of a blank wall that makes her look strict and unyielding.

Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) is the free spirit. We’re told she was once a follower of the Grateful Dead . At first, she appears to be a flibbertigibbet of sorts, expressing flighty thoughts and getting distracted by coincidences. As the film progresses, however, we see she’s far more complicated. The peacekeeper, she’s also worried about being away from her young daughter for the first time.

Natasha Lyonne in "His Three Daughters."

Rounding out the trio is Rachel ( Natasha Lyonne ), who’s related to the other two siblings by their father’s second marriage — she’s his wife’s daughter whom he raised as his own. Rachel had been living with her father long before he took ill, and had been his primary caretaker since he was diagnosed. Once her sisters arrive, she refuses to sit in the room with their father, opting instead to smoke blunts and antagonize Katie with her sharp retorts.

Once the general premise is established, “His Three Daughters” lets us bask in the glory of three actors at the top of their game. Each is superb in her own way, with Lyonne giving a career-best performance. She isn’t afraid to look haggard in some scenes, and her expressive face conveys a hurt Rachel is unwilling to fully acknowledge. “He’s my father, too,” she says to her siblings, and you feel her pain deep in your gut.

Coon’s role plays to her strengths as an actor who can easily command authority. Katie talks fast, and her verbal attacks are ruthless. She’s constantly doing busy work like washing dishes and cooking, presumably to distract herself. Her angry daughter is unwilling to listen to her demands, so Katie turns to chastising Rachel in her own house.

From left: Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen in "His Three Daughters."

Olsen has the most difficult role to play. Her character is yet another good cop with whom Katie’s bad cop must partner against her will. Christina is also maintaining a façade where everything in her life appears to be perfect, much to the resentment of her siblings.

Jacobs’s screenplay is wise about how those we love use words to wound or comfort us. The film also rings true about the shared stories and in-jokes families develop. For example, whenever their father’s hospice care worker Angel (Rudy Galvan) visits, the sisters mock his melodramatic explanations about their father’s condition after he leaves.

Most of “His Three Daughters” takes place in an apartment that never feels cramped or like a stage play. Cinematographer Sam Levy uses gliding pans between walls and shifts in perspective to make the location just big enough to hold three excellent performances.

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Written and directed by Azazel Jacobs. Starring Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, Natasha Lyonne, Rudy Galvan. At Coolidge Corner, Landmark Kendall Square, suburbs. On Netflix starting Sep. 20. 101 minutes. R (drug use, profanity)

Odie Henderson is the Boston Globe's film critic.

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With Vice President Kamala Harris having replaced President Biden on the Democratic ticket, her stances on key issues will be scrutinized by both parties and the nation’s voters.

She has a long record in politics: as district attorney of San Francisco, as attorney general of California, as a senator, as a presidential candidate and as vice president.

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Ms. Harris supports legislation that would protect the right to abortion nationally, as Roe v. Wade did before it was overturned in 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

After the Dobbs ruling, she became central to the Biden campaign’s efforts to keep the spotlight on abortion, given that Mr. Biden — with his personal discomfort with abortion and his support for restrictions earlier in his career — was a flawed messenger. In March, she made what was believed to be the first official visit to an abortion clinic by a president or vice president.

She consistently supported abortion rights during her time in the Senate, including cosponsoring legislation that would have banned common state-level restrictions, like requiring doctors to perform specific tests or have hospital admitting privileges in order to provide abortions.

As a presidential candidate in 2019, she argued that states with a history of restricting abortion rights in violation of Roe should be subject to what is known as pre-clearance for new abortion laws — those laws would have to be federally approved before they could take effect. That proposal is not viable now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe.

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Family Drama

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