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Jai Mummy Di






STORY: Saanjh Bhalla (Sonnalli Seygall) and Puneet Khanna (Sunny Singh) are next door neighbours and secret high-school sweethearts. But, their mothers – Pinky (Poonam Dhillon) and Laali (Supriya Pathak) – are constantly at loggerheads owing to an old unsettled score, which turns out to be the biggest hurdle in their relationship.

REVIEW: ‘Jai Mummy Di’ is all things Delhi taken straight out of a comedy sketch – the ‘aunties’ are loud and full of themselves, husbands are henpecked, children are victims of tiger parenting, and clothes are shinier than the jewellery that they wear (which is a lot). And, amidst all that hurly-burly, a young couple dares to give their forbidden love affair a second chance. With the matriarchs of the family refusing to bury the hatchet, how do the heartsick lovers manage to end up together forms the crux of this romcom.

Before jumping to the flaws, one has to give credit to writer-director Navjot Gulati for ushering the audience into his world of ‘Jai Mummy Di’ with some clichéd yet laughable one-liners and hilarious supporting characters. But, soon after, it’s all downhill for this insipidly written and equally sluggishly directed comedy flick – the story derails way before the intermission and never gets back on track, there are way too many songs and dance numbers that it gets difficult to sit through beyond a point. Sonnalli Seygall, as this bold and bratty lass from Delhi, looks glamourous on screen but does not quite manage to get into the skin of her character; comes across as too plush for the colloquial Saanjh. As a love-struck momma’s boy, Sunny Singh has his moments but that, too, withers away with time (and pretty early on). The tiff between senior actresses – Supriya Pathak and Poonam Dhillon – is not one of their finest works. Pathak does pull off the quarrelsome nature of her character Laali with reasonable conviction, but Poonam Dhillon’s most certainly not the Pinky that the director was looking for.

Truth be told, ‘Jai Mummy Di’ only works to a certain degree because of the glam factor and some of its hummable musical content, rest is just bland and boring.



कलाकार- सनी सिंह, सोनाली सैगल, सुप्रिया पाठक, पूनम ढिल्लन दो परिवारों के बीच दुश्मनी और उसके बीच एक प्रेम कहानी का फॉरम्यूला बॉलीवुड में नया नहीं है। लेकिन इस विषय पर ज्यादातर ट्रैजेडी फिल्में बनी हैं, जबकि 'जय मम्मी दी' में कहानी को कॉमेडी में पिरोने की कोशिश की गई है। सांझ भल्ला (सोनाली सैगल) और पुनीत खन्ना (सनी सिंह) पड़ोसी हैं और कॉलेज के दिनों से रिलेशनशिप में हैं। लेकिन उनकी मां पिंकी (पूनम ढिल्लन) और लाली (सुप्रिया पाठक) एक दूसरे की शक्ल तक देखना पसंद नहीं करतीं। दोनों के बीच लंबी पुरानी दुश्मनी है और एक दूसरे को नीचा दिखाने का एक मौका नहीं छोड़तीं। लेकिन यह दुश्मनी क्यों है यह कोई नहीं जानता। अब मम्मियों की दुश्मनी के बीच दो युवा दिल मिल पाते हैं या नहीं, उनकी शादी हो पाती या नहीं, यही है फिल्म की कहानी।

फिल्म की कहानी में नयापन लाने की कोशिश की गई है। लेकिन औसत संवाद और पटकथा की वजह है फिल्म में जान नहीं रह जाती है। दो परिवार की मम्मियों को केंद्र में रखकर शायद ही कोई कहानी लिखी गई हो, लेकिन इस कहानी को 105 मिनट तक दिलचस्प बनाए रखने में निर्देशक नाकाम रहे। सनी सिंह और सोनाली सैगल इससे पहले बतौर कपल फिल्म 'प्यार का पंचनामा 2' में भी दिख चुके हैं। शायद निर्माता- निर्देशक उसी सफलता को भुनाने की कोशिश कर रहे थे। हालांकि यहां दोनों कलाकारों के बीच की कैमिस्ट्री प्रभावित नहीं कर पाई। सनी सिंह कॉमेडी दृश्यों में अच्छे लगे हैं। सुप्रिया पाठक और पूनम ढिल्लन ने अपने किरदारों के साथ न्याय किया है। लेकिन सभी कलाकार यहां कुछ अलग कर दिखाने में असमर्थ दिखे हैं क्योंकि किसी भी किरदार को निखारा ही नहीं गया है। सभी कलाकार उबाऊ लेखन के बीच जूझते नजर आए हैं।

फिल्म में संगीत दिया है तनिष्क बागची, Meet Bros, पराग छाबरा ने, जो कि औसत है। मम्मी नू पसंद और लैम्बोर्गिनी रिक्रिएट किया गया है। गाने सुनने में अच्छे लगते हैं, लेकिन फिल्म में ज्यादा असर नहीं छोड़ पाते। फिल्म 'जय मम्मी दी' मनोरंजन का वादा करती है, लेकिन उस वादे को पूरा नहीं कर पाती। दो मम्मियों के बीच दुश्मनी और उसमें पनपती एक प्रेम कहानी बोर करती है। फिल्मीबीट की ओर से 'जय मम्मी दी' को 1.5 स्टार।


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