Chinar - Daastaan-E-Ishq is an ill fated love story of Jamaal (Faisal Khan) and Suraiya (Inayat Sharma) set in the valleys of Kashmir. The story is narrated with the usage of lots of flashback scenes and in a super slow manner. There is not even a single good point in the film except for the fantastic locations of Kashmir valley. This is completely boring, bland and outdated film. The actors of the film fail to impress the audience with their role in the movie. Faisal Khan looks old and over-aggressive in the movie and Inayat speaks in a sickly elderly voice. The ones who are keen on romantic love-stories can go for the movie, but you will surely witness too much of tragedy in the film.

You feel sorry for Faissal Khan and probably more for yourself for having to sit through this ordeal/ unintentional comedy. It's so bad that it makes Mela look Oscar-worthy. Shot in the gorgeous valleys and snow-clad hills of Kashmir, the location is the only good thing about this poorly made film. The film fails to deliver on multiple grounds. The background score is not in sync with the mood of the scene, usage of Urdu is limited to mashaallah, janaab and hasrat bhari nigahen. The heroine speaks in a sickly elderly voice and hams to the extent that Rakhi's Karan Arjun act pales in comparison. Faissal looks 50 and is made to act like a 20-year-old, which is disturbing.We wish the actor would have chosen a better comeback vehicle instead of this random film. Chinar, which presents its lead actors as messiahs of true love is dated and inconsequential.Terribly disappointing.