Writer, director and producer Wajahat Rauf’s third film under his banner – Showcase Films – Chhalawa is all set to release on Eid ul Fitr this year alongside Heer Maan Ja. The first look of the film is out and suggests that the production is going to be a family entertainer. “A family, comedy-romance,” as Wajahat put it in an earlier interview with Instep.
Featuring Mehwish Hayat, Azfar Rehman, Zara Noor Abbas Siddiqui, Asad Siddiqui, Mehmood Aslam and Ashir Wajahat in key roles, the first look teaser is vibrant and layered. It’s a wedding setting in a big house with all family members in presence. However, there is a twist to it. The premise suggests that though the occasion is of Mehwish Hayat’s wedding to another man, she isn’t happy with it. Her love interest, essayed by Azfar Rehman, is also there to win her father’s heart. This certainly reminds us of SRK in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) as Mehwish says to Azfar when the teaser opens, “I will slap you so hard that the entire Shah Rukh Khan in you will come out.”
There is music, dance, drama, romance and comedy, and then there is action – making the film a complete entertainment package. Mehwish and Azfar look good together onscreen (the two starred in Wajahat’s first web series Enaaya as well) while off-screen couple Zara and Asad, who are paired in the film as well, share good chemistry too. Zara appears as a cheerful young woman and steals the show in certain scenes, suggesting that she will be seen in a completely different avatar as compared to her small screen roles.
