‘Jahaan Chaar Yaar’ movie review: Why should men have all the fun?
How typically do you see 4 married middle-class girls having fun with the solar and sand in Goa with out the corporate of their husbands in Hindi cinema? Jahaan Chaar Yaar ventures right into a zone often reserved for naughty boys in all age teams and tells the world that ladies might additionally say: Dil Chahta Hai. However after promising a enjoyable journey, the movie will get busy preaching that for each terrible spouse, there may be an equally dreadful husband on this universe.
Add to it lackadaisical technical assist, and we have now a well-intentioned movie that fails to do justice to its robust feminine forged. Author-director Kamal Pandey has come up by way of the tv circuit, and one might discover bubbles of a every day cleaning soap within the dramedy.
It’s a coming-of-age story of 4 associates, Shivangi, Sakina, Neha, and Mansi, who’re struggling of their married lives however are usually not able to face the reality. On a fortuitous break in Goa, the ladies get to open up about their self-seeking spouses who’re eroding their id and self-respect little by little, however earlier than they may take pleasure in their ‘freedom’ from their restrictive lives, they get entangled in a homicide investigation.
What works for the movie is the pure aptitude of the main girls that compensates for the typical writing and overacting by the male members of the forged. As Shivangi, Swara Bhasker, aces the a part of a housewife who has been lowered to a maid by her husband and in-laws. Armed with the diction of Japanese Uttar Pradesh/Bihar and her penchant for self-deprecatory humour, Swara retains the innate spark of Shivangi alive and comes up with a efficiency that’s completely relatable.
Shikha Talsania will not be dangerous both because the spouse who stands as much as a philandering partner. Pooja Chopra and Meher Vij full the foursome that could be feeling stifled of their relationships however haven’t given up on their zest for all times.
Their camaraderie interspersed with rib-tickling one-liners retains you invested. Kamal succeeds in creating the ambiance of small-town India and the home politics that pervades the households. The movie has some refreshing moments that we often don’t discover in Hindi cinema. There’s a reference to the newly minted regulation in opposition to the moment Triple Talaq that has arguably empowered Muslim girls in suffocating relationships. The best way the daughter of Shivangi tells her mom to not be a doormat is inspiring, and the married girls’s response to a rakish stranger threatens to deliver the home down earlier than Kamal switches to a hackneyed third act.
