SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Charming and brutal

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

I always wondered how Bollywood gets away with so much plagiarism so blatantly without facing any law action. Filmmakers, musicians, screenwriters rob Hollywood and other factories for stories, screenplays, music, and what not (I remember even Ashutosh Govarikar's debut film was fickle attempt to remake Brian De Pelma's Body Double, David Dhavan's Partner(Hitch), almost all of Bhatt camp movies Raaz (What lies Beneath). If it is done right or at least watchable (Zaher(Out of Time), Mujhase Shaadi Karogi mild recommendations) audience never minds this overt larceny. Vivek Agnihotri (he made Identity into some ridiculous Ek Tufaaani Raat) set his eyes on great Usual Suspects and tried to concoct a popcorn flick with potboiler intentions. Film suffers from poor writing (adaptation is more appropriate word), direction, production values (one robbery sequence where I burst out laughing). As if enough damages hasn't done there are one or two miscasts like Suniel Shetty (biggest miscast in any film anyway, though credit him for dragging himself so long with help of industry Dosti-Yaari) to do the rest. But movie has some real good songs-item songs, Tanushri Datta cleavage and new twist ending. Watch if you stumbled on this flipping channels.

While it is fairly obvious that the movie is blatantly adapted from the classic "Usual Suspects", its narration makes it impossible to understand what's going on and where the story starts or ends.Individual characters seem to appear, disappear, die and become alive without any obvious reason or time-line. The lawyer Krishna Pandit (Anil Kapoor) goes in and out of scenes acting as if he owns the movie but does nothing more than rave and rant. In one scene he gets an 80 page fax thats spitting out at the speed of a high speed photocopy machine and we never know what it contains or why its important.The only cute thing in the movie is Monsoon but she does not have much to do.

While it's true that this movie is a rip-off of "The Usual Suspects," it is still a highly entertaining Bollywood film. Considering that many Bollywood films don't have plots this intricate, I consider this a good movie.There are some key differences: the suspect is not being interrogated by investigators; a woman is added to the gang (which makes for better wet-dress dance scenes); and while some elements of the ending are the same, it is (to my mind) a different ending.I would recommend this movie to people just starting to appreciate Bollywood films: the familiar plot will make it easy to follow, though it ruins the surprise.

My wife rented this movie from the local Desi video store (of course it was bootlegged) and I caught bits and pieces of it while she was watching but what caught my attention was right at the end as all was being revealed. I noticed how it was all lifter directly from "The Usual Suspects" and so I asked her to describe the plot to me in as much detail as possible. Her description was exactly the plot in The Usual Suspects. She said it was probably coincidence so to prove it, I had her play the ending scene for Chocolate and then I played the ending on my laptop side by side and lo-and behold, it was identical. It's really disheartening to see Indian movies that are exact copies of Hollywood movies and don't even give credit to the original. People who have not seen the original will tout this as a wonderful movie but those of us who know better see it for what it is, a complete rip off of a wonderful movie.