Jayeshbhai Jordaar review: After a good outing in 83, Ranveer Singh put all his might to be ‘jordaar’, but alas it lacked the desired punch to be box office winner. While Ranveer Singh has been at his comical best, the movie lacks the success formula. The Arjun Reddy fame Shalini Pandey, plays a subdued wife here. Boman Irani delivers lots of over the top scenes, and Pathak Shah is handed a kichidi scene, clearly leading us to the end, that the movie is far from being a winner.
The trailer of Jayeshbhai Jordaar did lead us to what to expect from the movie. The film follows Jayesh, a timid father of a girl child aged 9, husband of Kinjal (Shalini Pandey). Kinjal’s whole purpose in life is to provide a waris. A boy. Pehli galti is maaf, so both were allowed to keep their first born daughter. The next 5 pregnancies were tagged ‘miscarriages’. You get the drift. With a sixth child on the way, Jayesh, a softy, decides to finally be not a hero, but the action hero his daughter wants, needs.
Jayeshbhai Jordaar review: A forgettable Ranveer Singh Movie
The movie is all about how Jayesh badly wants to run away his un inspiring domestic situation. The obedient son of a tyrant and his enabling wife in a village in Gujarat, Jayesh (Ranveer Singh) is being constatanly nagged by his parents’ insistence that he produce a son.
It’s all that Prithwish (Boman Irani) and Jashodha (Ratna Pathak Shah) ever talk about. Jayesh already has an eight-year-old daughter, Siddhi (Jia Vaidya). When a doctor tells him that his wife Mudra (Shalini Pandey) is once again carrying a girl, Jayesh throws a few clothes and jars of snacks into a suitcase and scoots with Mudra and Siddhi.
Gujarati actor Divyang Thakkar’s directorial debut, co-written with Anckur Chaudhry, has a lot to say about illegal sex selection, female foeticide, the shoddy treatment of women and the true meaning of masculinity, but cannot quite decide how to go about it.
Located somewhere between an earnest college play and a dark comedy, the 121-minute film stumbles from one scene to the next. Jayesh’s destination of choice is a village in Haryana where rampant sex selection has destroyed the gender ratio and left its men bereft of wives.
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The intentions in ‘Jayeshbhai Jordaar’ may have been noble, but the film comes off as a babble of characters flailing about in a plot which makes you grit your teeth. 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.
Among the best comedy scenes are when the unmarried Haryana villagers roll into Jayesh’s backyard to show their support and instead delight at seeing so many women around.Jayeshbhai Jordaar has a few more such crackpot scenes, but there are far too few of them to deliver its themes.
Will Jayeshbhai Jordaar pull off a KGF or at the very least a Kashmir Files in terms of box office collection? the answer is simply NO.
Ranveer is at his comical best, but cant salvage a poorly written script and narrative.