In Jugjugg Jeeyo, Neetu Kapoor silences a flustered Varun Dhawan, who performs her son, after he snaps at Kiara Advani, her daughter-in-law, with only a few phrases, “Khabardar Naina se aise baat ki mere saamne (Don’t you dare talk to Naina like that in front of me).”
Keeping in tone along with her character, Neetu doesn’t yell or scream all through the movie, compared to the remainder of the household who resort to typical Bollywood theatrics to emphasize anguish and fury, which incorporates creating teary scenes in public. No, Neetu’s energy comes from her managed tones as she offers with a dishonest husband and her son, who can be on the verge of divorce. Her relationship arc places the give attention to the truth of many married {couples} in India — being married however basically dwelling separate lives. Perhaps the opposite characters ought to have been allowed to comply with go well with when it comes to efficiency (together with drastic dialogue modifications in fact), after which Jugjugg Jeeyo may have been way more impactful. At the second, the movie is probably the most Bollywood-ised interpretation of divorce, with an enormous fats Punjabi marriage ceremony within the backdrop, and a sequence of jokes that really feel like husband-wife WhatsApp forwards.
Divorce and infidelity is comedy
Jugjugg Jeeyo revolves round two {couples}, Kuku-Naina and Kuku’s mother and father Bhim and Geeta, performed by Anil Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor. There’s bitterness between Kuku and Naina as she is much extra profitable than him in Canada, and he was compelled to depart Patiala for her. Resentments have been brewing and neither may talk it to one another and at last resolve on a divorce. As Kuku tries to inform Bhim about his impending divorce, he learns that his father additionally desires to separate from his mom and is having an affair with a girl named Meera. Rather than tapping first a son’s confusion and anguish at his father’s infidelity, we’re pressured to listen to numerous sexist banter and brought via some hare-brained zany schemes to get his father to fall in love together with his mom once more for the sake of comedy. This consists of attempting to get random younger ladies to tug the strikes on him as a result of he feels that his father is simply lusting (isn’t this an even bigger drawback?) after Meera. Finally, Kuku does battle to point out the dilemmas that such a son would face, however that comes too late and is doused with a lot hysterics, tears and extreme theatrics that nothing feels actual by the tip of the movie.
There is far deception and betrayal in Jugjugg Jeeyo, nevertheless it’s all performed for laughs for probably the most half. At the tip, Anil Kapoor’s character is such a blatantly egocentric man-child that you simply marvel why Geeta hadn’t left him earlier than.
Kuku and Naina’s causes for divorce aren’t so clear until midway via the movie as each second scene is performed for laughs. So, once they have interaction in a heated combat, it makes one sit up. Finally, Naina explains what has been hurting her—it’s the shortage of any kind of appreciation from Kuku for her success. It’s an emotional scene that Varun and Kiara deserve credit score for, however you virtually want that there had been a greater build-up to this combat. Another drawback with Kuku and Naina’s story is that they’re regarded upon as ‘kids’ for wanting divorce rapidly, dismissed as a ‘modern relationship’ slightly than truly delving into the swimming sea of damage that’s between the 2 of them. It’s an archaic approach of present relationships and dilutes the precise dynamics between a pair.
It’s Bollywood, so every little thing will get tearfully resolved in court docket, in entrance of everybody. Bhim cheerfully tells Kuku on the finish, “Teri ma ko pata lunga.”
The “other woman”
The ‘other woman’ in Bollywood is often a caricature, largely introduced as a facetious girl, who’s both utilizing the person for his cash, or loves him a lot that she goes fully insane. Tisca Chopra in Jugjugg Jeeyo was supposed for comedian functions clearly, judging by her practised laughs and it’s virtually as if she is to be judged for desirous to be unbiased from her accomplice. Despite Bhim’s claims that the love between the 2 of them is actual, it falls flat later. There is not any seriousness right here both; it feels as if this story was written to induce some laughs from the viewers. This makes Bhim’s character look much more ridiculous and absurd.
Tisca Chopra’s Meera performs an adulteress straight out of an old style Hindi serial, she’s clad in sleeveless blouses, overtly giggly — but she’s unbiased and isn’t going to attend on any man, one thing that our Bhim is used to. After Geeta palms her husband off to Meera, detailing every little thing that she has executed for him prior to now 35 years, Meera has chilly ft as she realises that she doesn’t need to be ready on somebody for the remainder of her life. Stating her independence, she kicks him out and he returns tail between his legs to Geeta, pretending that he’s in love along with her once more and that he had turned down Meera.
That one Neetu Kapoor scene
Neetu Kapoor, along with her quiet dignity and beauty as a heartbroken girl, is the star of this mess. While she belongs to the old-school of thought who believes that divorce isn’t an answer, she is thrown when she learns of Bhim’s deeds. Nevertheless, at first, she decides to step apart. After telling Meera about her husband’s each day wants, she has a dialog with Naina. It’s a uncooked and painfully actual monologue, the place Geeta explains that there wasn’t any love in her organized marriage. In a gut-wrenching method, Neetu Kapoor brings out the issues which have ailed so many marriages from earlier generations: Staying collectively for society. She explains that she doesn’t even know if there was love. They simply took care of one another, and as she says, that wasn’t love. Life carried on and so they introduced up their youngsters. This is the essence of what Juggjugg Jeeyo was attempting to painting—being trapped in a loveless marriage, with no approach out. Neetu doesn’t sob on this scene or has a breakdown, the ache of misplaced years is mirrored in silent tears. This is among the only a few impactful scenes of the movie, and it’s a pity that there weren’t extra like this. She exudes an analogous lethal calm after realising why her husband got here again to her—however that is diluted by Kuku’s fixed dramatics.
Neetu Kapoor’s Geeta was relatable and highly effective and she or he doesn’t want her husband’s validation to know that she is doing the proper factor by divorcing him. It would have been finest had they simply parted methods, with no likelihood for reunion.
Jugjugg Jeeyo had the proper themes, nevertheless it derailed by delving into trite, sexist comedy and utilising age-old Bollywood tropes for a narrative that was supposed to be progressive. When will Bollywood be taught?
