Review: 'Chintu Ka Birthday' Has A Feel-Good Air

Cast: Vinay Pathak, Tillotama Shome, Seema Pahwa, Bisha Chaturvedi, Vedant Chibber, Khalid Massou, Reginald L Barnes and Nathan Scholz

A boy turns six. His parents, sister and grandmother plan a birthday party, all the more because the previous year's treat was scuttled. But will it be child's play this time around? The family of water-filter salesman Madan Tiwari (Vinay Pathak) is stranded in war-torn Baghdad.

The central premise of Chintu Ka Birthday, written and directed by Satyanshu and Devanshu Singh and produced by the men behind All India Bakchod (AIB), is simple enough, but the film makes bold to expand its scope and bring out the deleterious effects of war on a family in the wrong place at the wrong time.