Aditya N
Aditya N
Aniruddha Jatkar, known for his last solo release in 2018 titled Raja Simha, returned with the dark comedy thriller Chef Chidambara, where he portrayed the lead role. Directed and written by M Anand Raj, with screenplay and dialogues by Shree Ganesh Parashuram, who previously worked on Baang, Chef Chidambara featured Aniruddha alongside Rachel David from Love Mocktail 2. The movie also included Nidhi Subbaiah, KS Sridhar, Shivamani, and Sharath Lohithashwa in significant roles. Initially released in cinemas on June 14, Chef Chidambara is now set to premiere on an OTT platform.
Chef Chidambara can be streamed by Kannada viewers in the UK and US on Prime Video and is expected to be released in India soon. The movie depicts Aniruddha as Chidambara, a renowned chef facing financial difficulties as he struggles to save his family’s beach-side restaurant from being taken over due to mounting debts. Despite his relentless efforts, Chidambara finds himself unable to settle his debts with a local loan shark. Chidambara receives assistance from the loan shark’s wife, who offers him a solution to his problems. She instructs him to retrieve a phone containing explicit videos from her previous lover. However, when Chidambara meets the man, their encounter takes a deadly turn as the man ends up dead in Chidambara’s apartment. The film revolves around Chidambara’s actions regarding the body and how he handles the aftermath of the events.
A significant portion of the film’s humor is centered on the dead body and the efforts to dispose of it, which was particularly effective at the time of its release due to a real-life incident involving a Kannada star. Chef Chidambara is the most recent Kannada film to be released for international audiences before its India debut. Films such as Blink and Shakhahaari were also released on the platforms in those regions before their India release and subsequently appeared on piracy sites. Nevertheless, both films still garnered respectable streaming minutes.
