'Jogira SaRa Ra Ra' movie review: Thoda sa rah rah!

Jogira SaRa Ra RaUA Comedy DramaDir Kushan NandyCast Nawazuddin Siddiqui Neha SharmaRating 25An insight this film gets right is that you can be incredibly useful to Indian society if you work in the Indian Railways ldquoto confirm ticketsrdquo Upperclasses barely have to suffer what it means to score a rail ticket in this country Therersquos a guy here who holds a ldquopermanent governmentrdquo job in the railways Thatrsquos top of the food chain reallyOnly that hersquos such a lsquochomursquochump in life dressed in checked shirts and hanging trousers tying his scooter up with a chain when he parks on the street mdash and generally the typical bore like a smalltown version of Subodh from Dil Chahta Hai mdash that itrsquos unlikely hersquoll ever score a girl for himselfParents come to the rescue of such Indian men Hersquos up for marrying a girl Neha Sharma whorsquos way out of his league hence Where have I seen this actor beforeIt occurred to me who he was only in a scene where hersquos moving to the steps of the song lsquoI am a disco dancerrsquo And one of the characters quips ldquoLook at him dancing as if itrsquos his fatherrsquos songrdquoOh so it is his fatherrsquos song and thatrsquos Mithunrsquos son Mimoh mdash whose glorious debut Jimmy 2008 I may be the only person in the world to remember from its maidenpremiere screening that also instantly sank his potential career Mimoh has reappeared as the opposite of a hero in this picObviously the heroine is least interested in marrying him Therersquos an event planner Nawazuddin Siddiqui she kinda hires to annul this inauspicious union That is carefully plan and effect a breakup basically This fellow is the filmrsquos hero and also a commitmentphobe when it comes to romance himselfNow where have I seen the same premise play out The romcom starring Ranbir Kapoor recently Tu Jhoothi Mein Makkaar 2023 Are the two movies similar then Hell noJogira Sara Ra Ra pointlessly titled after the famous Holi refrain is a North Indian smalltown picture Made for the North Indian smalltown audience If you know what I mean No you donrsquotOkay so essentially about a place where the greatest object of male shameembarrassment is to go to a pharmacy and ask for a sanitary napkin Which is significantly worse that buying a condom And yoursquod dig a hole and die inside it if you had to pick up a pregnancy test Thatrsquos where the humour emerges fromThere is then a lot of daatun neem sticks to brush teeth bidi carrom and twoinone tape recorder in a world of smart phones And of course huge familiesIn this case a large retinue of unmarried girls in a household along the lines of say Raksha Bandhan 2022 which was also the last time actor Akshay Kumar attempted to engage with the same audience And yes since this is after all a movie set in Uttar Pradesh mdash Bareilly Lucknow Banras etc mdash reputably the capital of Indiarsquos KampR kidnapping and random industry How can there not be the gangs and the goons the police and the chorsYou can kinda make sense of what the filmmakers are trying to do here with Yadav amp Yadav like Thomson amp Thomson for cops A Chacha Chaudhary Sanjay Mishra for a chilledout gangsterThatrsquos the game The genre is loud lsquotimepassrsquo comedy Meaning a gag a minute scripted by Ghalib Asad Bhopali Nawaz is supposed to deliver the laughs In his theatre days Nawaz says he was widely known for a very ldquobhondu walirdquo comedyThatrsquos whatrsquos expected of him here In some portions he pulls it off fine too Even as the selfreferential dialogue refers to his ldquobaap ka dada kardquo line from the intense Gangs of Wasseypur Frankly this is the kinda movie that makes you miss someone like a bumphod Govinda who hasnrsquot been replaced on the Hindi screen still For Nawaz a film of this sort merely adds to his rangeBut the slot of that superfunny hero mdash capable of casually overdoing bawdy humour with mad bodylanguage and throwaway lines winging it by just being there mdash remains vacant stillWhich means one has to rely entirely on the jokes for the tickle here To be fair blokes in my theatre were hitting LOL ROFL levels on occasion mdash while I sat there quietly wondering WTF is so funnyAll opinion on such matters is subject to market risks Given how subjective such humour can be There are fragments of fun surely Naah going nowhere with it thoughAlso ReadBheed movie review That long walk of shame

'Jogira SaRa Ra Ra' movie review: Thoda sa rah rah!

Jogira SaRa Ra Ra
U/A: Comedy, Drama
Dir: Kushan Nandy
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Neha Sharma
Rating: 2/5

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'Jogira SaRa Ra Ra' movie review: Thoda sa rah rah!

Jogira SaRa Ra RaU/A: Comedy, DramaDir: Kushan NandyCast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Neha SharmaRating: 2/5

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Jogira SaRa Ra Ra
U/A: Comedy, Drama
Dir: Kushan Nandy
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Neha Sharma
Rating: 2/5