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Good
10 reviews
55
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Critics praise Saiyami Kher's performance and the Mumbai-set marriage drama's emotional texture, but most say Kashyap's demonetisation premise loses momentum and collapses into a formulaic, tame or rushed ending.
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Summary
Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai (2020, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 55 from 10 critic reviews, is rated 12+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A), and streams on Netflix in the US.
A bank employee weighed down by her jobless husband's debts - and her own broken dreams - finds a secret source of seemingly unlimited cash in her home.
Where to watchAvailability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.
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Directed by Anurag Kashyap · written by Nihit Bhave · music Rachita Arora
Anurag KashyapDirector
Nihit BhaveWriter
Rachita AroraMusic
Sylvester FonsecaCinematography
Konark SaxenaEditing
Saiyami KherLead
Rajshri Deshpande
Amruta Subhash
Roshan Mathew
Uday Nene
Upendra Limaye
Tawhid Rike Zaman
Tushar Dalvi
Milind Phatak
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Production designSeema Kashyap · Ravi Srivastava · Vilas Kolap
CostumePrashant Sawant
LyricsGarima Obrah
MakeupDhananjay Prajapati
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Summary
A bank employee weighed down by her jobless husband's debts - and her own broken dreams - finds a secret source of seemingly unlimited cash in her home.
Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai (2020, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 55 from 10 critic reviews, is rated 12+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A), and streams on Netflix in the US.
Where to watch
Availability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.What the critics said
10 reviews · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Five of 10 · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Anmol Jamwal · YouTube · transcript read · 5 Jun 2020
Anmol calls Kashyap's 10-15 minute anti-government detour heavy-handed and less subtle than his best work, but praises the writing as impeccable… Watch it there →
Derived by Filmi
80
Rohan Naahar · 5 Jun 2020
Naahar calls Choked 'hugely enjoyable but slightly ham-fisted' — praises Kashyap's restrained visual approach, Kher's performance, and the score,… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
78
5 Jun 2020
Review: Anurag Kashyap\"s Choked, Paisa Bolta Hai Hits A Jackpot With His Netflix Debut Read it there →
Published · 3.5/5
Filmi’s reading 78
70
11 Jun 2020
The critic calls this a sharp dark political satire on demonetisation, praising Saiyami Kher's performance as exceptional and commending the… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
76
Anupama Chopra · 5 Jun 2020
Chopra praises Kashyap's handling of the marriage and its emotional texture and singles out Kher's performance, but says the suspense plot is… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
55
Devesh Sharma · 14 Jun 2020
Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai Movie Review | Filmfare.com Read it there →
Published · 3.0/5
Filmi’s reading 50
60
Deeksha Sharma · YouTube, Hindi · rating spoken aloud · 6 Jun 2020
2/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in video
Filmi’s reading 35
40
Baradwaj Rangan ✓ Claimed · 13 Jun 2020
Rangan calls the film's opening stretch brilliant filmmaking rich with symbolism, but says it collapses once demonetisation hits — wild tonal… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
35
Shubhra Gupta · 5 Jun 2020
Choked review: Not enough bite Read it there →
Published · 2/5
Filmi’s reading 33
40
Suparna Sharma · 7 Jun 2020
1.5/5, stated in the text — not a formal rating. Read it there →
Stated in text
Filmi’s reading 30
30
How this number was made. We read every review and derive a 0–100 reading from each — including where the critic printed a number, which stays first on its row, because it’s theirs. The Filmi Score is the mean of 10 readings; 5 of those rows also carry the critic’s own rating, shown beside ours. Rubric v2.1, computed 26 Oct 2026. Any critic can ask us to remove a derived reading.
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Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai is streaming on OTT: Netflix (India, the US, the UK and Canada). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai?
Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai has a Filmi Score of 55 (Good), the mean of 10 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 30 (Deccan Chronicle) to 80 (Tried&Refused Productions). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
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