Jahaan Chaar Yaar Film Evaluation

critic’s ranking: 



3.0/5

Jahaan Chaar Yaar is a movie about 4 girls who resolve to let go of the shackles of married life for a bit and chill collectively in Goa. Their escape turns bitter when a foreigner is discovered killed of their lodge room. They are not simply the prime suspects in a homicide, however are additionally the goal of a mysterious killer hell-bent on eradicating all proof. How the shut bond they share helps them overcome the hurdles types the crux of the movie.

It is seldom that our filmmakers attempt to make a movie with 30-plus girls because the protagonists. Kudos to director Kamal Pandey, who has additionally written the movie, for trying that. Domesticity turns into stifling after some time in center class houses, particularly for housewives who’re compelled by circumstances to not have a lifetime of their very own. So that you empathise with the perils of Shivangi (Swara Bhaskar), who’s emotionally manipulated to change into the unpaid servant of her husband and in-laws, Sakina (Pooja Chopra), whose husband needs to depart her, and Neha (Shikha Talsania), whose husband has been dishonest on her. So when their wealthy good friend Mansi (Meher Vij) cons them into visiting her in Mumbai, saying she’s dying of most cancers and later reveals she’s deliberate to take all of them for a women’ trip in Goa, they’re shocked initially however give in. The director retains their middle-class mores intact. They roam across the seashores not in beachwear however in sarees, drink nothing stronger than beer; really feel ashamed about ogling males; and are flustered after they get a name from their households. The journey is a responsible pleasure of kinds for them, the place they’ll roam freely with out feeling the burden of home life. We might have been content material with seeing them have one gentle misadventure after one other. However the director has pushed in a homicide thriller within the combine as nicely. It is when life will get all topsy-turvy, that they realise that they cannot be doormats all their lives and will be taught to insurgent.

The movie is a component comedy, half whodunit and partly a lesson on girls’s empowerment. Fortunately, not each man is painted as a villain. The inspector investigating their case, performed by Girish Kulkarni, is proven to be a staunch supporter of girls’s rights. He not solely stands as much as his senior, who was dishonest on his spouse, but additionally tells the 4 buddies to get out of the rut and kind their lives out. And so they do it with dignity and sass, holding their vanity intact. The place the movie falters is in its depiction of the thriller and its denouement. It is all too sudden, hurried and disjointed, and the mishandling of it jars this in any other case wonderful movie.

Casting Swara Bhaskar, an actor identified for her feminist views, as a lady who has misplaced all sense of id after marriage was a threat certainly, however the actor has pulled off the function with panache. She’s such a doormat within the movie that you simply need to shake her up and inform her to cease and discover a life. She hasn’t put in a false notice and has given a most honest efficiency. Shikha Talsania and Pooja Chopra are variations of her and are profitable in placing ahead the angst and insecurity felt by their respective characters. The affable Meher Vij too is forged in opposition to sort. The sturdy, resilient mom of Secret Celebrity (2017) is one thing of a shrew right here. It’s an attention-grabbing character, which we want was written higher.

Whereas Jahaan Chaar Yaar is a movie with sturdy feminist vibes and carries good performances, it does falter on execution, particularly within the second half. The movie is a combined bag for certain, and let’s hope its message finds an viewers.

Trailer : Jahaan Chaar Yaar