Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets (2005)

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Innumerable movies have been copied and perhaps "Chocolate" qualifies for the worst when it comes to adapting for Bollywood. For starters, the story line is loaded with complexity. Added to it are the sub-plots which are far too many and should have been trimmed down to aid the comprehension of the Bollywood audience. And the non-linear progression adds to the woes. There are too many unwarranted "sex" references (read that "force-fit"). Basing the London was a bad idea. Performance wise Anil Kapoor delivers a strong screen-presence. Next is Arshad Warsi. Tanushree Dutta attempts hard to display her "oomph". Emran Hashmi hardly leaves an impact. Sunil Shetty was extremely wooden. Irfan Khan is perhaps the worst considering the expectations that would arise when his name is associated with the project. Sushma Reddy is awful on both department, choice of costumes and acting. I was amused to the opening credits stating "Inspired Films" presents. I suppose "Plagiarised Films" would more more apt.

The movie is inspired from A Hollywood movie Starring Kevin spacey, "the usual suspects". The movie has the same ending albeit the scenarios are lil different but the plot is the same. Here Irfan Khan plays the same role that Kevin spacey played in the English version of the film and in the end Anil Kapoor gets to know the real story just like the cop in the English version of the movie. All in all it is a facsimile of the original which directed Kevin spacey to stardom. Thought he film maintained a thrill right till the end and contains a huge twists in the end when Anil kapoor gets to know that he has been cheated, it is a good thriller to watch

Seriously, after seeing this film, I am considering just leaving Bollywood in the dust. I'm so sick of films like this. This is not a remake of The Usual Suspects; it's a total flippin' rip-off. The director had nothing new to offer to the topic and just basically re-shot the movie in Hindi, in London and made it really bad. Everything is word-for-word of the original. What makes it worse is that they threw a girl in just to prance her around half-naked most of the time. I hope Bryan Singer sues all of the bastards involved in making this film and I hope all of those people come to their senses and never work in film again.

This is the Best Indian Movie I saw this Year. The Story was perfect. You won't be able to Guess anything (if you haven't watched TUS)Well basically I saw the movie last night. I couldn't really stop watching it. even though I had my Exams today.But Once I reached the End I was Exceptionally satisfied with the End. However I started having a Bad feeling about the movie. I have this sort of feeling when I watched other movies too. Somehow I guessed that it was a clone of TUS though I never Saw TUS in my whole life but I am craving to watch the movie. (Just like the time I saw Saaya before Dragonfly) And Guess what. Today I was reading the Reviews and found many people saying it's a clone.Anyways I would still recommend the movie to all Viewers Indian and foreign. It's really worth your money.