Jayeshbhai Jordaar

2022 - 5 - 14

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Cast: Ranveer Singh, Shalini Pandey, Boman Irani, Jia Vaidya, Ratna Pathak Shah. Director: Divyang Thakkar. Rating: Two and a half stars (out of 5).

Owing to the ineffectual nature of the tyrannical headman, the film does not have anything that can heighten Jayeshbhai's plight and make his flight from it more urgent and palpable. While the character of the hero has facets that definitely fascinate, the other people orbiting around him are wobbly presences who pop in and out of the frame to merely support the protagonist. He flees with her and his daughter but does not have the presence of mind to elude the father's men. This is certainly not only because of the strength that Ranveer Singh performance lends to the film. In one scene it wants to be funny as it confronts a deadly serious issue, on the next it is all earnest and preachy. Had Jayeshbhai Jordaar lived up to the claim that the second word of the title makes, it would have been an outright winner.

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The first half of the film is extremely lazy both in terms of story and screenplay. Overall, Jayeshbhai Jordaar is a decent watch but does it really stay with you and leaves you thinking? Ranveer is full of energy yet again, though I was looking forward to a somewhat understated performance in this one for the kind of subject the film is dealing with. Was it the Gujarati flavour and giving Ranveer a rather funny makeover and character that the director felt would work with the audience? Just before Jayeshbhai introduces his family members to us, he draws a rather silly analogy between scientists wanting to know about Mars and his parents wanting to know about the gender of his child. Director Divyang Thakkar gives the disclaimer in the first scene itself that ‘pre-natal sex determination test is a punishable offence’. And the entire premise of Jayeshbhai Jordaar is centred around this.

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The first half begins delightfully in rural Gujarat. The village of Pravingadh has Ramlal Patel (Boman Irani), a chauvinistic patriarch, as the backdoor ...

Divyang Thakkar’s script is the biggest culprit, for in this socially-conscious stew that finally seems like a battle between regressive Gujarat and progressive Haryana, the loser is the audience. In the first half, we have already been introduced to a clan of hefty men from Haryana, who stay deprived of love in a woman-free locale and now regret it! So Siddhi and he make a practice of pretending to ill-treat his wife whenever his married sister (Deeksha Joshi) is beaten by her husband, who is Mudra’s brother.

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Imagine having a film which has a main character responsible for the death of several unborn children, without the deed leaving a discernible scar on his soul: he just tosses it out in a line, sheds a tear, and that’s the end of that. And just in case we were about to come down heavily on all of Gujarat (now that would never do, would it), we get a bunch of Haryanvi ‘pehelwaans’ (led by the muscly Puneet Issar), all regretful about having got rid of their girl children even before they were born. In its zeal to cement the timidness of Jayesh, who can’t open his mouth in front of his babuji (Boman Irani) and ba (Ratna Pathak Shah), we get scene upon scene in which Patel Sr gets to be a roaring patriarch, and his wife to be his female counterpart.

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The film is jointly bankrolled by Aditya Chopra and Yash Raj Films. While Ranveer Singh plays the titular role of Jayeshbhai, Shalini Pandey is the female lead in the film. Film critic Rohit Jaiswal ripped into the makers and said that this one is “outdated OTT material” and called it neither entertaining nor a message oriented cinema. The film is a social comedy drama directed by Divyang Thakkar and covers the topic of female infanticide. Film critic and trade analyst Sumit Kadel also gave the film a one-and-a-half star rating and wrote, “Based on the issue of female foeticide. Kadel added that Jayeshbhai Jordaar is neither “a full fledged serious cinema” nor a proper comedy and it struggles somewhere between both the genres. Ranveer Singh’s act is decent but he couldn’t rise above the monotonous script and direction.

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That also means that the screenplay is stacked with narrative contrivances, such as the fact that the village that Jayesh and his wife head to happens to be one with a skewed gender ratio, a product of illegal sex selection that has left men without any wives. The socially-conscious premise is enough to gauge where the film wants to head — Thakkar and co-writer Anckur Chaudhry, overburden the narrative with preachy commentary: there's the message on equality, a stern stance on the cruelty of sex-determination and female foeticide, and some token outrage about the status of women in society. So when Jayesh, already a father to a young daughter, learns that his wife is pregnant with a girl once again, he quickly realises that the news won't sit well with his parents' wishes.