Resham Filili – A Wholesome Entertainer

Movie: Resham Filili

Director: Pranab Joshi

Starring: Vinay Shrestha, Kameshwor Chaurasiya, Karma, Menuka Pradhan, Sisheer Bangdel, Arun Regmi, Ashutosh Raj Shrestha, Laxmi Giri and more.

In my eyes: *** (out of 5)

First thing first, it’s all about entertainment! And this entertainment flick is wonderful, total paisa-wasool. Resham Filili literally makes the audience filili and how!

Resham Filili is the story of two friends, Resham and Hariya, who are common poor men residing in Kathmandu valley and struggling to achieve their goals. As its genre goes comedy, it has a grand package of humor and comic elements, stuffed with the appropriate emotions and sensitivity too. The hype song Jaalma had created for movie is justified, as the movie does not let you down; instead, it refreshes you, makes you laugh out loud and put a pleasing smile on your face.

Plot:

Resham (Vinay Shrestha), with his dreams of getting his sister married and blessings of his mother (Laxmi Giri), enters Kathmandu to fly to Qatar but is deceived by manpower agency. Circumstances bring Resham and Hariya together. Hariya (Kameshwor Chaurasiya) aka Hari Narayan Mandal, who is seeking different ways to earn money and a chance to become an actor, plans different ideas for income and involves Resham in them. But they get trapped in the way of Dorje Don (Shisheer Bangdel), a Tire Don of Kathmandu. Later, they start working in movie sets with the help of Kharani Dai (Arun Regmi), who wants to direct a film with Bryan as a lead actor. Bryan (Karma) is a superstar with 20 movies flop out of 21. In midst of all these, Resham gets attracted to Sunita (Menuka Pradhan), his neighbor and the cool punk girl riding on bike and supplying tires to Dorje don from her father’s workshop. For Sunita, Resham happens to be balance halidine dai. Things get twisted after Resham meets an accident on movie set of Bryan, benefit of which is used by Hariya and Resham with Kharani dai’s idea. How do they use Bryan in course of their dreams? What actually happens to them? Can they escape away from Dorje don? What happens between Resham and Sunita? Do dreams of Resham and Hariya come true? Answers can be known after watching movie.

What I felt:

Applauds to the entire team, every single one involved in the making.

Pranab Joshi has done quite an incredible job in executing the movie nicely. Written also by him, Resham Filili is successful in its goal i.e. to entertain the viewers. The presentation of movie, based on fake story, is really cool. The way director has executed the story smoothly and the way humor is injected throughout the movie is undoubtedly fantastic. The amount of sensitivity to some issues, in a comedy movie, is feel-able. The local feel of movie is something remarkable and nice.

Screenplay is good and dialogues are marvelous. Every character is different, local to the roots and realistic with their own individual stories. To connect those characters together with such wonderful plots is challenging and challenge has been successfully completed. Hariya’s “Don’t touch my milk” is epic, so are his flashback scenes! Bedroom scene of Sunita and Resham is nice. The entire climax is equally good. Chemistry between Resham and Sunita looks cute, fun and interesting; Hariya is even more. The momo magic to Chyarkha, Dorje’s sidekick, is also too funny. That tribute to technical staffs working in movie behind the scenes seems well too. 

Although story is simple and so are the plots, it can be felt that screenplay could have been even more tighter and better. Perhaps, editing has helped in feeling so. Editing (Sushil Neupane and Pranab Joshi) is not so crisp. Movie seems unnecessarily dragged in few places. The action sequence right before interval is too lengthy, which could have been cut down to shorter duration. Fight between Resham and Hariya could also have been a bit shorter. It might be felt that Sunita’s character could have been a bit more developed. Despite one might feel boring and stretched in a place or two, movie overall is fun and cannot let anybody down, as the entertainment factor is damn high.

Cinematography (Babu Shrestha) is nice. Background score (Almoda Rana Uprety) is near perfect. I wished more tunes of Jaalma to run on background. About songs? Well, Jaalma is the history already. The visual of this is not peppy but comic. That signature step of it is nice. Title track at last is also good. Music (Kali Prasad Baskota) is awesome. Although only few lines are heard in the movie, Janina Ki and Lets get Lucky tonight are nice compositions.

Performance is the best thing of Resham Filili, Kameshwor Chaurasiya as Hariya being the show stealer. Everyone has given solid performances, but still Hariya rocked! Given the supporting role, he has shone from the very start to the end. His dialect, his body language, his expressions, his comic timing, everything has proven his strong talent. He is great. Vinay Shrestha has transformed himself very well into the character of Resham. He has carried out his role very naturally; this is his best performance so far. Karma has given yet another sincere performance; he is good in portraying flop superstar. Menuka Pradhan, the balance-magne-keti or aakha-laais-ki-laat-khaais girl, is too good; her immense talent is worth praising for. Shisheer Bangdel as don, Ashutosh Raj Shrestha as Chyarkha, Kharani Dai, Laxmi Giri as a mother are good and have added weightage to the movie.

Final Say:

Resham Filili is a wholesome entertainer - a nice comedy and emotional journey with solid performances and polished direction. Hariya i.e. Kameshwor Chaurasiya totally rocked! Jaalma is the big big bumper prize. Do not miss this amazing package of entertainment.

P.S. Do not miss those Jaalma cover video clips during end credits.

       

And I loved the posters, they’re so much creative and attractive. Thumbs up, Swapnil Acharya.

      

And it felt good to hear audience clapping at the end. I’d watched Friday's 8am show at Civil Mall, it was houseful. Too good. Wishing them super success.

Photo Courtesy: https://www.facebook.com/reshamphilili

This is an edited article. The devastating earthquake hugely affected this movie as well. I re-watched it after it's second release on August 28, 2015. But the kind of excitement during first watch was not there in second! Nevertheless, Resham Filili is a total entertainment package and it really makes you laugh out loud.