critic’s score: 



3.0/5

Jahaan Chaar Yaar is a movie about 4 ladies who determine to let go of the shackles of married life for a bit and chill collectively in Goa. Their escape turns bitter when a foreigner is discovered killed of their resort room. They don’t seem to be simply the prime suspects in a homicide, however are additionally the goal of a mysterious killer hell-bent on eradicating all proof. How the shut bond they share helps them overcome the hurdles kinds the crux of the movie.

It is seldom that our filmmakers attempt to make a movie with 30-plus ladies because the protagonists. Kudos to director Kamal Pandey, who has additionally written the movie, for trying that. Domesticity turns into stifling after some time in center class properties, particularly for housewives who’re pressured by circumstances to not have a lifetime of their very own. So that you empathise with the perils of Shivangi (Swara Bhaskar), who’s emotionally manipulated to grow to be the unpaid servant of her husband and in-laws, Sakina (Pooja Chopra), whose husband desires to depart her, and Neha (Shikha Talsania), whose husband has been dishonest on her. So when their wealthy good friend Mansi (Meher Vij) cons them into visiting her in Mumbai, saying she’s dying of most cancers and later reveals she’s deliberate to take all of them for a ladies’ trip in Goa, they’re shocked initially however give in. The director retains their middle-class mores intact. They roam across the seashores not in beachwear however in sarees, drink nothing stronger than beer; really feel ashamed about ogling males; and are flustered after they get a name from their households. The journey is a responsible pleasure of types for them, the place they will roam freely with out feeling the burden of home life. We would have been content material with seeing them have one gentle misadventure after one other. However the director has pushed in a homicide thriller within the combine as properly. It is when life will get all topsy-turvy, that they realise that they can not be doormats all their lives and may be taught to insurgent.

The movie is an element comedy, half whodunit and partly a lesson on ladies’s empowerment. Fortunately, not each man is painted as a villain. The inspector investigating their case, performed by Girish Kulkarni, is proven to be a staunch supporter of ladies’s rights. He not solely stands as much as his senior, who was dishonest on his spouse, but in addition tells the 4 pals to get out of the rut and type their lives out. They usually do it with dignity and sass, protecting their shallowness intact. The place the movie falters is in its depiction of the thriller and its denouement. It is all too sudden, hurried and disjointed, and the mishandling of it jars this in any other case effective movie.

Casting Swara Bhaskar, an actor recognized for her feminist views, as a girl who has misplaced all sense of identification after marriage was a danger certainly, however the actor has pulled off the function with panache. She’s such a doormat within the movie that you simply wish to shake her up and inform her to cease and discover a life. She hasn’t put in a false be aware and has given a most honest efficiency. Shikha Talsania and Pooja Chopra are variations of her and are profitable in placing ahead the angst and insecurity felt by their respective characters. The affable Meher Vij too is forged towards kind. The robust, resilient mom of Secret Celebrity (2017) is one thing of a shrew right here. It’s an attention-grabbing character, which we want was written higher.

Whereas Jahaan Chaar Yaar is a movie with robust feminist vibes and carries good performances, it does falter on execution, particularly within the second half. The movie is a blended bag for certain, and let’s hope its message finds an viewers.

Trailer : Jahaan Chaar Yaar