‘Jugjugg Jeeyo’ movie review: Anil Kapoor is the throbbing heart of this dysfunctional comedy that works in parts 

What occurs when a son on the verge of divorce, discovers that his father can also be eager to sever his relationship along with his mom? If the son can’t deal with the success of his spouse… the daddy needs freedom from his nagging partner.

Director Raj Mehta tells us that love can dry up in each organized and love marriages, if they don’t seem to be nurtured with respect and religion. Paradoxically, these two substances look like lacking in his remedy of the topic for a big half. There are sequences that elevate hopes that the movie will say one thing new, however it finally ends up solely scratching the proverbial floor of male entitlement and chauvinism, to the purpose of virtually normalising them.

In a bid to make the bitter capsule palatable, the writers have rolled it in a lot saccharine of situational humour that the advanced topic loses its efficiency. That the movie is essentially set in Patiala shouldn’t be sufficient. Each time Maneish Paul comes on display screen, someone has to shout ‘Munda’ (boy) from the background. Because the comedian remedy dilutes the motivations of the characters, it isn’t straightforward to take them critically. It is just late within the second half that the movie finds its muffled voice, when the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talk about their expertise of marriage.

For the remaining, it appears the core story of dysfunctional relationships has been gobsmacked with comedian background sounds as a result of the makers maybe don’t think about the viewers. So that they nudge the Karan Johar universe of the Punjabi household ever so frivolously. There was a time when solely males bonded over wine, now girls of the household may say cheers. That’s progress!

The actors do their bit to make it work. Varun Dhawan has emerged as a reliable prototype of a ‘tubelight,’ as Kukoo describes himself in the direction of the top. Kukoo is the type of man whose coronary heart is buried someplace beneath his six-pack abs and requires just a few Patiala pegs to mild up his mind. Married to his childhood love Naina (Kiara Advani), Kukoo’s fragile male ego sparkles when his spouse rises up the profession ladder and he’s left behind to man a nightclub. Her success shakes his male entitlement and makes him really feel insecure, a lesser entity within the relationship.

A nonetheless from ‘Jugjugg Jeeyo’ 

However earlier than Kukoo can break the information of divorce to his father Bhim Saini (Anil Kapoor), Bhim tells him that he’s considering separation from his mom Geeta (Neetu Kapoor) whom he describes as a ‘vegetarian lioness’ and that Meera (Tisca Chopra), a maths instructor, has introduced romance again into his life. It spirals right into a collection of tragicomic conditions; a few of that are natural, however others have been pressured to maintain the narrative mild and frothy. Living proof: the scene the place Bhim introduces Kukoo to Meera.

In a bid to make Geeta shine, Meera has been lowered to a single-note character. We by no means get to know what she present in Bhim within the first place, or why Bhim received swayed towards her. Loads of time is spent telling us that it isn’t in regards to the late hormonal surge, however the movie has no area to debate the entrenched patriarchy in father and son that has percolated into their wives and sister Ginny (Prajakta Kohli) as nicely.

Regardless of limitations in characterisation, Anil Kapoor is the throbbing coronary heart of the movie and as soon as once more rises above the writing to maintain the viewers invested. His comedian chemistry with Varun gives a few of the excessive factors within the movie. Neetu Kapoor makes a powerful comeback and lights up the display screen within the restricted display screen time that she has received; some of the highly effective scenes is probably a mirrored image on her actual life. Kiara suitably comes throughout as a spouse who doesn’t know what extra she may do to make the wedding work, and Maneish Paul provides zing along with his comedian timing.

Regardless of the blessings on the field workplace, the movie doesn’t have the legs to final a jug (an extended time period) in public reminiscence. It could possibly solely evoke just a few hearty laughs and spark some animated dinner desk discussions.

Jugjugg Jeeyo is at present working in theatres