Director- Aarti S. Bagdi Cast- Seema Biswas, Manjari Fadnavis, Siddhant Kapoor, Indraneil Sengupta, Barkha Sengupta, Flora Jacob, Trimala Adhikari and Rohit Khandelwal Where to Watch: ZEE5 Ratings: 2 star Lockdown during the pandemic was a hard time for everyone from the middle class to the below poverty line people. While the rich continued to live their luxurious lives, others were busy struggling and fighting problems ranging from personal to financial.
ZEE5's new release Chalti Rahe Zindagi shows the struggles that people went through during the lockdown but fails to evoke emotions due to lazy, immature writing. Chalti Rahe Zindagi follows the story of Krishna Bhagat (Siddhant Kapoor), a local bread supplier, and how his deliveries connect three families and how lockdown changes their lives forever. Phase 1 of the lockdown exposes the extramarital affair of Arjun (Indraneil Sengupta)'s wife with Aru (Barkha Sengupta)'s husband, a neighbor.
In phase 2 Sushma (Flora Jacob), pressurized by her son Akash (Rohit Khandelwal), a TV journalist, forces Krishna to return the money that she had loaned him. Phase 3 brings to the fore the conflict within Leela Seth, a lady in her late sixties, her daughter-in-law, Naina in her mid-thirties, and her granddaughter, a teenager, Siya. The anthology structure of the film is the biggest drawback of the film making it look illogical.
The writing looks lazy and immature. Dialogues in the film are too simple, less impactful, and cringe at time.