‘Janaki Jaane’ movie review: Navya Nair’s film fails to utilise its interesting premise – The Hindu

Each character in a film can have many traits, however Janaki, the protagonist of Janaki Jaane, turns into recognized with only one trait – her irrational fears. It’s fairly a mixture of fears, actually. We’re instructed she fears darkness, and thus can solely sleep with the lights on, however she can also be proven to be terrified of being alone in anywhere even in daylight.

However, director Aniesh Upasana, in his fourth movie, doesn’t use these fears just like the 2000 movie Thenali, a rip-roaring comedy a few man who had a number of phobias. Nor does he take the complete emotional route with a narrative that had such prospects. He chooses to remain someplace within the center, as if he fears leaning an excessive amount of to both aspect.

Janaki (Navya Nair), an worker at an offset press, has been utilizing flimsy causes to reject marriage proposals, as she is not sure of getting a traditional married life resulting from her many fears. However, Unni (Saiju Kurup), a contractor, sticks to his proposal even after understanding about her issues. It’s all easy crusing of their married life till they face a disaster, which is linked to the election marketing campaign of their constituency.

The director leans on the thread about political machinations on the native degree to create a much-needed disaster to assist Janaki overcome her fears, which clearly is the purpose of the entire film. It’s this half-baked political story which turns into one of many weakest hyperlinks of the film, which has fairly a couple of different weak spots, together with some makes an attempt at humour that don’t fairly land properly. Although there are efficient barbs at voyeuristic tv and on-line media channels, this half largely follows the sample of one-sided criticism of sure political fronts as seen in fairly a couple of different current movies.

Regardless of the attention-grabbing premise, the script or its execution infrequently handle to tug you into the narrative, or make us really feel what Janaki feels. A few of her panic assaults, just like the one after a colleague leaves her alone on a avenue, turn out to be failed makes an attempt at comedy. The fixed shifts to the story on the native politics don’t assist both. Sticking to Janaki’s story, with the battle coming organically from her personal life, would have made it a way more efficient movie. The apparent clarification for her fears, linked to childhood traumas, comes late within the day.

Navya Nair doesn’t have a lot of a scope to carry out, whereas Saiju Kurup has turn out to be a tad repetitive in his current roles. In all, Janaki Jaane fails to utilise its promising premise.

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