[7] Initially scheduled for a theatrical premiere, it was directly released online on Amazon Prime Video on 13 November 2020, coinciding with Diwali.

Montu soon realizes that he cannot quit his job, and returns to the school to challenge Inder Mohan with a three sport competition: basketball, a 400m relay race, and kabaddi.

Whoever's team won the competition would stay as the PT teacher, while the other would have to leave, and Inder Mohan accepts the challenge.

Montu's father with the help of Neelu manage to get them back on board by using blackmail and threatening to re-open existing legal cases against them.

Hansal Mehta announced the film on 10 August 2018 with the title "Turram Khan" and Rajkummar Rao and Nushrat Bharucha in the lead roles.

[15] Mike McCahill of The Guardian gave the film three out of 5, writing, "Drama specialist Mehta (2012’s Shahid) brings to this a professionalism you could easily underrate.

Handled carelessly, fluff like this often unravels into nonsense, but Chhalaang feels faintly precious for landing intact near the end of a heavy year.

"[16] Anupama Chopra of Film Companion gave a negative review, writing, "Chhalaang isn’t tear-your-hair-out awful.

"[17] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave the film two out of five, writing, "Chhalaang, unable to fend off its contradictions, gets all tangled up in its own mixed messages.