Jayeshbhai Jordaar Movie Review: Su chaale chhe, Jayeshbhai?

Jayeshbhai JordaarUA Comedy dramaDir Divyang ThakkarCast Ranveer Singh Shalini PandeyRating 25What piques my curiosity beyond whatrsquos happening inside this film is how it must have come about Did the filmmakers start out with a brief from the central governmentrsquos welladvertised campaign as usual high on sloganeering lsquoBeti Bachao Beti Padhaorsquo Because we hear it in the dialogues as well along with lsquoSwachh Bharatrsquo elsewhereWas the attempt thereafter to pull off an entertaining roadtrip caper of sorts with strong messaging on womenrsquos emancipation mdash trying a bit too hard to make it seem a fun ride on the commercialmainstream spaceWatch VideoWith rock playing for background score and a hiphop track in the closing credits Jayeshbhai Jordaar is essentially a rural film mdash set entirely in a Gujarati village and therefore with much affluence around In fact the setting is so rural that it appears the characters in this film havenrsquot even visited a likely small towndistrict nearby let alone bigmetropolitan cities anywhere aroundThe hero on whom the film is named mdash along with his lovely deadly young daughter love this kid and his lockedup wife mdash is on the run from his dangerously patriarchal powerful father Boman Irani because the caring husbandrsquos checked on his phone where in India are women likely to be treated bestA village in Haryana is the top search result Because there are no women left in that village and so all the gabru jawans of marriageable age are bachelorsHow such a village is likely to be safest for women in general unborn included is hard to tell The inspiration for this Haryana village itself is probably the maiden episode of Aamir Khanrsquos TVtalk show Satyamev Jayate 2012 that featured the same gaon in Kurukshetra district as you might recallLikewise there is talk of pappikiss as against lsquojaadu ki jhappirsquo from Rajkumar Hiranirsquos Munnabhai MBBS as cure for male hate directed against women of the house The opening scene refers to the planet as a lsquogolarsquo like in Hiranirsquos PK What follows this scene is a prominent scroll on the screen ldquoPrenatal sex determination is a punishable offence lsquoin Indiarsquo isnrsquot added to the warningrdquoThis is because the young pregnant wife in this film is going through an ultrasound scan Not that they ask the gender of the unborn child That info is usually passed on by doctors through obvious codes If itrsquos a girl the family will forcibly abort mdash shersquos been through six such abortionsEither way Irsquom guessing the Censor Board inserted that public warning which is a strange precedence to set Such a scroll should likewise flash every time a character murders attacks even swindles someone on screen mdash those are ldquopunishable offencesrdquo too no Itrsquos tragic enough that beautifully composed frames works of art in desi films are similarly defiled with nosmoking cigarette pack warnings every time a character lights up or even gets a drinkThat said the intent hence lsquomoralrsquo of this storymovie is neatly spelt out mdash if not a bit too obviously drilled in Which is of course not why I had walked in to the theatre That reason is clearer still mdash the lead actor Ranveer Singh He plays Jayeshbhai whorsquos Jordaar perhaps a little like the character Jethalal from the TV serial Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah thatrsquos widely popular in Gujarat in particularGoes without saying this is Ranveer in an altogether believable in a bush shirt contemporary rural part that you havenrsquot seen him perform before mdash holding it by the horns through his energy levels that operate on a scale of their own anyway This after Khilji in Padmaavat Kapil Dev in 83 Itrsquos of course essential for an actor to go all over the place with his talentcareerJust that a film going all over the place alongside isnrsquot equally great news At its core this is supposed to be a fullon farcical comedy Only what lies beneath it ie female foeticide wife beating etc make it hard to stick to the intended humour and the fantasies that followThe jokes run dry The roadtrip derails Surely there are gems for moments mdash check out the highway bathroom scene when you get the chance Do these moments add up to a gem of a movie The attention span simply drops after a point The picture stretches onIn a supposedly closed society thatrsquos cent per cent full of hardcore bloodsucking misogynists Jayeshbhai somehow just grew up to be a warm empath plus feminist with no icons of his own to follow He has important stuff to teach his audiencemdashthe same way wersquove seen Ranveerrsquos contemporaries Rajkummar Rao Ayushmann Khurrana etc get into similar modes in neatly contained successful theatrical releases in the pastThis is Yash Rajrsquos first film since the pandemic mdash one of the few Bollywood studios to not bow down to the lure of OTT that many believe is the new multiplex I was happy to be in a sparsely crowded cinema A better film wouldrsquove been a bonus Wanted to go lsquoSaaru chhersquo to this ended up thinking lsquoSu chaale chhe ahiya Jayeshbhairsquo

Jayeshbhai Jordaar Movie Review: Su chaale chhe, Jayeshbhai?

Jayeshbhai Jordaar
U/A: Comedy, drama
Dir: Divyang Thakkar
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Shalini Pandey
Rating: 2/5

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Jayeshbhai Jordaar Movie Review: Su chaale chhe, Jayeshbhai?

Jayeshbhai JordaarU/A: Comedy, dramaDir: Divyang ThakkarCast: Ranveer Singh, Shalini PandeyRating: 2/5

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Jayeshbhai Jordaar
U/A: Comedy, drama
Dir: Divyang Thakkar
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Shalini Pandey
Rating: 2/5