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Jabariya Jodi
Critic reviews and ratings
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...is a decent entertainer and works because of the novel idea of forced marriages, performances and hilarious and witty dialogues.
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The film is a romantic comedy with a fair share of humour and a dash of romance. As a whole, Jabariya Jodi is a feel-good film; a movie worth watching once.
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...starts on a promising note, but loses steam along the way. It tries to throw light on serious issues with lighter moments, but gets tangled in a melodramatic and unrealistic narrative that doesn’t feel all that jabardust.
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...while Jabariya Jodi is saying all the right things, it falters in the execution. Better attention to detail would really have made a wealth of difference for the film.
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...is not as much a romantic comedy as it is the story of a boy trying to come out of his father’s unsavoury shadow. But the need for a rom-com climax ruins whatever little it had tried to gain in the first two hours.
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The redemption then for Jabariya Jodi is fleeting and in spurts. Thanks to a cracking supporting cast, the film isn’t entirely an oppressive watch.
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That this film sways violently between a light-hearted comedy and one that depicts a serious and very real concern, left the makers on the cusp of a disaster.
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...is over-plotted – characters keep getting married, kidnapped, nearly married and separated. Folks slap each other, which counts as humor. And the narrative swings wildly like there is no one steering it.
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...constantly confuses tacky as terrific.
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...all it manages to be is another proof that good films are made from good screenplays, not a producer's false idea of a winning lead pair.
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...this dramedy on groom kidnapping ends as such a tragedy.
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...a predictably clumsy and dispensable 144-minute film that collapses while attempting to figure out what genre to adopt!
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The humour is as forced as the romance, and the biggest question goes unanswered: what is the movie really trying to say?
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Director Prashant Singh’s treatment of an important subject that is begging to be turned into a social satire bursting with local flavour, leaves the film stranded with an identity crisis.
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...is a frustrating and excruciatingly painful watch, peppered with very few moments worth remembering.
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Hindi cinema needs to get real about getting real. It is exploitative to borrow a milieu and short-change its people. Such meanness belongs in politics, not art.
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It’s been a year of offensively bad films – PM Narendra Modi, Thackeray, Kesari. But anger and disgust will keep you awake, which is more than I can say for Jabariya Jodi.
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As the film goes along, confusion gets confounded. Is this a well-meaning social drama, a rom-com, or an actioner?
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...a film that appears to have been made under duress by a group of people playing blind man's buff, is a big splotch of utter nonsense.
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...it is dull dull dull.
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