Good Luck Jerry movie review: This delightful Janhvi Kapoor film commits to its loopiness
That Jerry, the hero of this enterprise, makes use of her timid will-burst-into-tears-at-the-drop-of-a-hat kind character as a intelligent protect, is obvious from the very starting. The official remake of the 2018 Nayanthara starrer ‘Kolamaavu Kokila’ is a black comedy, that includes a wise cookie (Janhvi Kapoor), her chirpy youthful sister (Samta Sudiksha), and their mom (Mita Vashisht), the fount of their brains. These girls type a tiny Bihari household unit in a Punjab city, surrounded by every kind of males. A kindly uncle ji kind (Neeraj Sood) who’s gentle on the mum. A layabout (Deepak Dobriyal), hair streaked in numerous colors, who retains a watchful eye on Jerry. Quirky drug sellers, all the time looking out for couriers, fast to make use of their weapons. And a posse of cops, sizzling on the tail of everybody they think.
What’s pleasant in regards to the movie is that it by no means loses sight of the truth that it must be a caper. Jerry is fast to study the methods of the world, whether or not she is at her dodgy therapeutic massage parlour job, fobbing off creepy shoppers, or when she is criss-crossing the again roads in buses and tempos, carrying contraband value crores, coping with multi-hued mobsters. There’s additionally a transparent try at creating the best diploma of jokey-menacing tone.
The place it falters is in sustaining that tone, with slack patches in between. The merry-go-round with the cops and gangsters stretches out, even because the droll crook-in-the-neck Timmy (Dalal, glorious) retains it going. Good to see Mita Vashisht in a ‘hatke’ position, so completely different from the sombre characters she is often saddled with. The identical goes for Sushant Singh, who maintains a glint within the eye, at the same time as he counts his packets of white powder and finds them lacking: he suits proper in, on this light-hearted model of ‘Udta Punjab’.
Whereas we’re at it, although, we will’t assist noting the slippage of Kapoor’s Bihari accent. However there’s little question that she leads the way in which, letting that small triumphant smile emerge, though she is made to snivel an excessive amount of, the flood of tears almost overcoming the final air of enjoyable and frolic. And that’s the perfect a part of ‘Good Luck Jerry’, a movie that commits to its loopiness, with out discovering an excuse to get the lads in entrance of its fiesty girls. Good for Jerry aka Jaya Kumari aka Janhvi Kapoor.
