Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong (click to read more)

​Movie name: Checkmate

Language: Marathi

IMDb: 7.1

Genre: Suspense Thriller

This masterpiece was a directorial debut of Sanjay Jadhav (also writer of the film) and was released in 2008.

Movie starts with a dialog: 'anything that can go wrong, will go wrong', Murphy's Law. And believe me, Checkmate won't let you forget this.

The story rotates around three guys- Vishal (Ankush Chaudhari), Mohan (Swapnil Joshi) and Tushar (Rahul Mehendale) who somehow get duped of crores of rupees to some fraud scheme and as they try to get out of it, they get stuck deeper into it.

At the time of investment in the fraud scheme, none of them knows each other. Later they agree to work together to find out the real culprit. And on the sidelines, everyone starts playing his own game.

They get caught by the villain (in first 15 minutes),

they laugh,

they cry,

they fight,

they involve their girlfriends,

they plan kidnapping of each other,

they fake each other's death.

And eventually, everyone gets back their money (in India, the audience craves for a happy ending).

Believe me, it's a rollercoaster. And if you miss even 10 minutes in a movie, you won't understand the next move.

I understand, around 2008, Marathi movies were going through a transformation (specially after demise of Laxmikant Berde in 2004). Producers and​ a​ director took great risk in experimenting with new characters and with new genres (suspense thrillers and grey characters were hardly experimented on Marathi audience before).

Before this movie, I was guilty of seeing a character that is either good or bad. This movie keeps the audience guessing- who's good and who's bad till the end. Sanjay took great risk of portraying grey characters and it paid off.

This movie is fun, thriller, suspense, mind blowing and a sure shot watch.