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HuMan's thoughts on: Jug Jugg Jeeyo


 Jug Jugg Jeeyo is a film about divorce. As dismal as it sounds the movie barely treats it with the emotional gravity that a separation should bring. Varun Dhawan and Kiara Advani do sport an engaging chemistry, which is why their separation makes us feel really bad for them. Still, then they get completely overshadowed when Varun's dad drops a bomb on him.

If this movie had a stronger focus on separation it would be a significantly more meaningful movie with some really powerful scenes but instead it chooses to be an unexpected comedy of confusion in mind bending situations. It is as though if Marriage Story was shit. They could've done several things better, Manish Paul is misused as in many scenes he seems and sounds smart and then immediately disproves that in a later scene. The inconsistency in character is what bugs me. Anil Kapoor could've been a genuinely great role model on how compromising and maintaining relationships is integral to keeping any relationship but instead the unexpected expectations of the plot require him to be a filanderer who evokes no emotion other than disgust.

Kiara and Varun for me might be the only thing that works or had the potential to work. They are both natural selfish jealous people who care for their parents albeit in different ways. A better focus and idea on the plot would've helped this movie very much. This has to be my first time claiming that for real, it would've been better if they just went with the cliche storyline but no, their pursuit in something new lead them to one of the most absurd depictions of relationships on the big screen.
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