Goodluck Jerry #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #InternationalFilmFestivalCircuit Film: #GoodluckJerry Genre: Crime /Comedy Runtime: 120 mins Rating: * * ½ Cast: #Abhimanue #DeepakDobriyal #JaswantSinghDalal #JahnviKapoor #DeepakDobriyal #MitaVashisht #MohanKamboj #AvarBrar #SushantSingh #SahilMehta #SandeepNayak Director: #SiddharthSengupta Producers: #SubaskaranAllirajah #AanandLRai #MahaveerJain. Story & Screenplay: #NelsonDilipkumar #PankajMatta #RaindropMedia #LycaProductions #ColourYellowProductions #Disney #Hotstar

The remake of the Tamil film '#KolamavuKokila' (which starred #Nayanthara and was a decent money-spinner at the Box-Office), gets an OTT release. Obviously, considering the star cast (Jahnvi has no real draw at the Box-office and the rest of the cast are character artists and newbies who we’ve hardly heard of leave alone seen) and helming by a debutant director, it was a smart choice. Attempting to remake a dark crime comedy with a new setting and a different lingo has its own limitations. The writers do a fairly good job of rooting it in a Punjabi-Bihari milieu but the story and plotting doesn’t quite work up a storm, as desired. The narrative should have been plot driven rather than character driven especially since Jahnvi as the central player Jerry aka Jaya has little to offer as an actress other than a patented vulnerability that we see in all her performances. She has yet to develop a range as an actress - which she will undoubtedly do over time. Jerry’s reason for becoming a drug courier after her stint as a masseuse in a massage parlour because her mother has lung cancer isn’t convincing. And the entire group of motley hanger-ons and three women family going all-out to out-do the drug runners doesn’t make sense at all. The plotting and treatment is at fault. There’s hardly any humour to be had even though the supporting cast do a valiant job to shore-up this iffy crime comedy.