''Mukhtiar Chadha'' is a Punjabi

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film starring

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and Oshin Brar. The film is directed and written by Director Gifty while it is produced by Ohri Productions & Wahid Sandhar Showbiz and by presentation of

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. The other roles are done by Yashpal Sharma,

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, Jaswant Rathore and Rajasthani comedian Khayali. Dialogues of the film are written by Raman k Jangwal & Manoj Sabberwal.

Cast

as Mukhtiar Chadha * Oshin Brar as Dimple * Yashpal Sharma as Chidi Hussain *

as Mukhtiar's Mother * Inderpal Singh as Mukhtiar's maternal uncle * Vikash Kumar as Scientist * Khayali Saharan as Balingdi

Plot

Mukhtiar Chadha (Diljit Dosanjh) is a

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-based jack of all trades, without a stable source of income. He lives with his widowed mother (Kiran Juneja), and does a variety of professions including being a property dealer, and sometimes being a con-artist. He is also an avid investor in stocks. Mukhtiar also falls in love with his neighbor (Oshin Brar), though the girl's father does not approve of him. Trouble arises for Mukhtiar, when he brokers a land deal, but the buyers (Yashpal Sharma and Khayali Ram) illegally grab his client's land by only making a part payment to his client. Mukhtiar fights those goons and manages to defeat them.

Planning and Shooting

Director Gifty (Chetan Parwana) and

decided about movie while working on music track called ''Kharku''. Yashpal Sharma claimed he was the funniest villain ever to be seen in Punjabi cinema and termed the film as ''hardcore comedy''. Oshin Brar was also part of music video ''Kharku'' when she was offered this film. She had to walk barefoot on desert sand while shooting the movie song ''Main Deewani'' at

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thus burning her feet and in conditions of 55 degree Celsius temperatures she was dehydrated.

Promotions

During Promotions Diljit revealed his character Mukhtiar Singh Chadha is seen with a typical Delhi Sikh trader accent, for which he took diction classes in

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. Oshin Brar also visited an education institute in Hisar for the promotions. For promotions of '' Dilwale'' and ''Mukhtiar Chadha'' together on an entertainment channel, Diljit also interviewed

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where SRK pulled off a mimicry of Chadhaji's character successfully to Diljit in Chaddaji's language saying famous dialogue assisted by

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alongside Dilwale team,

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and

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for

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video.

Songs

''Mukhtiar Chadha'' has music from JSL Singh and lyrics by rapper Ikka Singh.

Track listing

*"Shoon Shaan" -

*"Main Deewani" -

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*"Click Click" - Diljit Dosanjh *"Gapuchi Gapuchi Gum Gum" - Diljit Dosanjh *"Gun Vargi Bolian Pave" - Diljit Dosanjh *"Kol Kinare" - Diljit Dosanjh

Release

The film was released on 27 November 2015. Trailer of film was released on 22 October 2015 and was regarded as very funny.

Reception

Box office

''Mukhtiar Chadha'' was released in 85 cinema halls in the five key international markets on 27 November such as Canada, UK, US, Australia, and New Zealand. It did decent business collecting at the overseas box office in 10 days.

Critical response

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'' in their movie review by Divya Pal and live Twitter review appreciated the movie and actor

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'' reviewed the movie as a good watch and stated Diljit Dosanjh's comic timing makes it a fun film with a ''laughter guarantee for a good part of it''. Jasmine Singh of ''

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'' wrote that Diljit has definitely showed yet again that he is a spontaneous actor who can act without a storyline and also the film has a lot of fun-filled moments. Punjabi channels like ABP Sanjha and Hamdard TV gave very positive reviews to the film.

References

External links

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Mukhtiar Chadha , Official Trailer with English Subtitle , Punjabi Movie , Diljit Dosanjh, Oshin Sai

Eros International acquires Punjabi film – Diljit Dosanjh starrer Mukhtiar Chadha

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