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Bollywood Film Review

Johnson Thomas

Mummy-fied Indignity



Film: Jai Mummy Di

Cast: Supriya Pathak, Poonam Dhillon, Sunny Singh, Sonnali Seyggal, Nushrat Bharucha, Varun Sharma

Director: Navjot Gulati

Rating: * 1/2

Runtime: 103 mins



This clunker from the Luv Ranjan stable of misogynistic ‘man’ loving, crusading cinema was not expected for sure. This time he has Navjot Gulati helming (his debut film) a supposed comedy romance that fails to drum up interest in either departments.



The central conceit about two fast friends, Pinki(Poonam Dhillon) and Laali(Supriya Pathak) having a falling out in college and subsequently living their lives in ‘opposition’ to each other while still next door neighbors is a little too far-fetched and difficult to comprehend. They even end up wearing duplicate outfits and reading the riot act to their respective children Saanjh Bhalla(Sonnalli Seyygall) and Puneet Khanna(Sunny SIngh) for fear they might fall in love (inevitable) with each other. The youngsters play pretend, the mothers end up at the same functions in similar garish outfits and have a go at each other while the fathers/husbands dutifully allow their wives to to make ‘noise’ over silly matters.



Considering this film comes from Luv Ranjan’s production house, methinks its an effort to curry favor with the female audience alienated by his previous male-centred attempts at cinema.Unfortunately, there’s neither logic, intriguing moments or humor to make this tedious, truculent and totally meaningless effort worthy of a pricey cinema ticket. The writing is totally pedestrian. The reason for the estrangement between the titular Mummies is silly ( Imagine Varun Sharma as the bone of contention) enough to make you want to stay away. The actors ham ( there’s really no one in the film who is brave enough to stand clear of that contagion) it all the way and the Director just couldn’t make this effort light enough to be forgivable. Take a break from the cinemas this week. This one is only likely to leave you colder than the weather...and just as bothered!



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