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Chef Chidambara OTT release date: Aniruddha Jatkar is the title character in the film by M Anand Raj
Last Updated: 02.23 PM, Jul 18, 2024
Aniruddha Jatkar, whose last solo release was 2018’s Raja Simha, returned with the dark comedy thriller Chef Chidambara, in which he played the title role. Written and directed by M Anand Raj, with screenplay and dialogues by Shree Ganesh Parashuram, the director of Baang, Chidambara paired Aniruddha with Love Mocktail 2 fame Rachel David. The film also starred Nidhi Subbaiah, KS Sridhar, Shivamani and Sharath Lohithashwa in pivotal roles. Released in theatres on June 14, Chef Chidambara is now OTT bound.
Chef Chidambara movie review: Comedy that seems more fun given the current affairs in Kannada cinema
Plot of Chef Chidambara
As of July 18, Chef Chidambara is available to stream for Kannada audiences in the UK and US on Prime Video, with the India release coming a good 6 days later on July 24. The film follows Aniruddha as Chidambara, an award-winning chef, who is, unfortunately, in debt, and on the verge of losing control and ownership of beach-side restaurant his family ran for years. Despite his best efforts, Chidambara is not able to pay off his dues with a local loan shark.
But then, aid comes in the form of the loan shark’s wife, who promises Chidambara a way out if he meets with her former fling and collects a phone that has explicit videos of her. Chidambara meets the guy, but before their ‘transaction’ can conclude, the latter ends up dead in the former’s apartment. What Chidambara does with the body and deals with the events that follow is what the film is about.
Much of the comedy in the film revolves around the dead body and the attempts to get rid off it, which, at the time of the release, worked because of the real-life case involving a Kannada star.
Chef Chidambara is the latest Kannada film to be made available for overseas audiences days ahead of the India outing. In recent times, films like Blink and Shakhahaari came out on the platform in those geographical areas earlier, and then landed on piracy sites even before the India release. Despite this, both films managed decent streaming minutes.