‘Chintu Ka Birthday’ an emotional drama based film set on the backdrop of American invasion of Iraq in the aftermath of the capture of Saddam Hussein, has been released on ZEE5 . The film does convey a message about importance of celebrating small family events to make the children happy, no matter however serious is the situation outside their house. 
So, in this film we find the preparations going on in this Indian family to celebrate the birthday of the youngest member of their family – a six year old Chintu (Vedant Raj Chibber) . The family is like a normal Bihari family migrated there to market the business of a water filter company , as Chintu’s father Madan (Vinay Pathak) is marketing in charge of this region. So, apart from his father Chintu lives with his mother Sudha (Tilottama Shome), his elder sister Lakshmi (Bisha Chaturvedi) and his Nani (Seema Pahwa). The family is also close to their landlord (Khalid Massou), in whose house they presently live. To celebrate this happy occasion Chintu has also invited few friends from his school living in the neighbourhood.
However, on this day little before the preparations begin, they hear a big blast outside and soon thereafter find two American army men (Reginald L Barnes, Nathan Scholz) entering their house for search operation. What transpires later is an emotion filled drama well presented by writer- director team of Satyanshu Singh and Devanshu Singh. It is just a few hours happening which takes place inside the house but a perfect tense atmosphere has been well created . The performances of all artistes are very natural with good support coming from background music and sound recording team. Photography is good. Only drawback of the film is rough abusive language used by the American soldiers. Perhaps the director wanted to show their frustration for being away from their families and that too in a different country. But, that certainly prevents the little children from watching this film, which also shows some brutality .
Otherwise, it is a well presented film with limited budget and most importantly with a message.
Rating : (***1/2)