{"id":13715,"date":"2022-05-13T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T11:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jayeshbhai-jordaar-movie-review-ranveer-singh-tries-hard-but-the-film-has-no-jor\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T11:18:04","slug":"jayeshbhai-jordaar-movie-review-ranveer-singh-tries-hard-but-the-film-has-no-jor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jayeshbhai-jordaar-movie-review-ranveer-singh-tries-hard-but-the-film-has-no-jor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayeshbhai Jordaar movie review: Ranveer Singh tries hard, but the film has no &#8216;jor&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jayeshbhai Jordaar movie cast:<\/strong> Ranveer Singh, Shalini Pandey, Ratna Pathak Shah, Boman Irani, Jiya Vaidya<br \/><strong>Jayeshbhai Jordaar movie director:<\/strong> Divyang Thakkar<br \/><strong>Jayeshbhai Jordaar movie rating:<\/strong> 1.5 stars<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>How far will the desperation for a &#8216;waaris&#8217; (male heir) take you?  If you are Jayesh bhai (Ranveer Singh) and Mudra ben (Shalini Pandey), a young expecting couple living under the thumb of overbearing elders, you cow down to their diktats, which could include, over and above everything else, a sex determination test .<\/p>\n<p>First things first, for a film to pick this up in order to hammer it down as a pernicious, illegal practice which should never have existed in the first place, it needs to figure out exactly which tone it wants to adopt.  Jocular, matter-of-fact, pointed, or deliberately leaving a loophole for the guilty to crawl out of?  Fearing it would turn out too much of a documentary, as issue-based features so often are accused of, you bung in, at regular intervals, colorful characters, quirky detours, a precocious child, without realizing that you are hollowing out your own film&#8217;s core.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what happens in this latest YRF outing.  In its zeal to cement the timidness of Jayesh, who can&#8217;t open his mouth in front of his babuji (Boman Irani) and ba (Ratna Pathak Shah), we get scene upon scene in which Patel Sr gets to be a roaring patriarch, and his wife to be his female counterpart.  And that follows scene upon scene of Jayesh being as much as a shield as he can to the very pregnant, about- to-deliver Mudra, and his nine-year-old daughter, against his parents and the &#8216;samaaj&#8217; (the film brings up &#8216;society&#8217; at every opportunity, giving its older protagonists an excuse to be the way they are).  What can the poor things do when society itself is so regressive?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jayeshbhai Jordaar | Official Trailer | Ranveer Singh, Shalini Pandey | Divyang Thakkar, 13 May 2022\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fppJtxJ7RWY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And just in case we were about to come down heavily on all of Gujarat (now that would never do, would it), we get a bunch of Haryanvi &#8216;pehelwaans&#8217; (led by the muscly Puneet Issar), all regretful about having got rid of their girl children even before they were born.  Again, a point that needs to be made, but is weak laughter the only way to do this?  When the boy-hungry seniors are not being disgustingly misogynistic to the women folk buried under their &#8216;ghoonghats&#8217;, they are chasing Jayesh and Mudra, who are on the run.  Just what does this film want to be?  A chase, a comedy, or a movie suffused with meaning?  The last time YRF managed to put all its ducks in a row, it was with the terrific &#8216;<strong>Dum Lagaa Ke Haisha<\/strong>&#8216;, and that was in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>No one escapes unscathed.  Ranveer Singh tries very hard to be &#8216;jordaar&#8217;, but is let down by the film which literally has no &#8216;jor&#8217;.  Shalini Pandey, the meek little girl from &#8216;Arjun Reddy&#8217;, turns into a meek little wife here.  Boman Irani has nothing to do but yell the house down, and Pathak Shah is handed a &#8216;Mirch Masala&#8217; scene, reminding us of that winner of a movie, which stacked all its decks behind its beleaguered women, and won the day.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"custom-caption\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7903962\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/05\/jayeshbhai-jordaar-1200.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Jayeshbhai Jordaar song jordaar ranveer singh\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/05\/jayeshbhai-jordaar-1200.jpg?ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/05\/jayeshbhai-jordaar-1200.jpg?ssl=1?resize=450,250 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/05\/jayeshbhai-jordaar-1200.jpg?ssl=1?resize=600,334 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/05\/jayeshbhai-jordaar-1200.jpg?ssl=1?resize=768,427 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/05\/jayeshbhai-jordaar-1200.jpg?ssl=1?resize=728,405 728w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.indianexpress.com\/2022\/05\/jayeshbhai-jordaar-1200.jpg?ssl=1?resize=150,83 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript>  Ranveer Singh in a still from Jayeshbhai Jordaar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>No such luck here.  The intentions in &#8216;Jayeshbhai Jordaar&#8217; 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 di lui: he just tosses it out in a line, sheds a tear, and that&#8217;s the end of that .<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a character says out loud: yeh kya ho raha hai yahan?  (Just what is going on here?).  It comes not a second too soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '444470064056909');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayeshbhai Jordaar movie cast: Ranveer Singh, Shalini Pandey, Ratna Pathak Shah, Boman Irani, Jiya VaidyaJayeshbhai Jordaar movie director: Divyang ThakkarJayeshbhai Jordaar movie rating: 1.5 stars How far will the desperation for a &#8216;waaris&#8217; (male heir) take you? 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