Soundrya Production’s Jahaan Chaar Yaar (UA) is the story of four friends who decide to add some spice to their mundane lives after marriage.
Shivangi (Swara Bhasker), Mansi (Meher Vij), Neha (Shikha Talsania) and Sakina (Pooja Chopra) are friends who are leading boring lives after marriage. Mansi decides, it’s time to have some fun. The four go to Goa but while holidaying there, they get involved in a murder case. To make matters worse, the families of Shivangi, Neha and Sakina had been told, they were going to meet Mansi who was on her death bed.
Kamal Pandey has written a half-baked story and a boring screenplay. The drama moves at a slow pace, adding to the boredom of the viewers. The screenplay lacks originality or freshness and is replete with stereotypical characters and scenes. Therefore, the drama fails to engage or involve the audience. Most of the comedy and light scenes fail to have the desired impact. The scene at the police station, in which police inspector Madhukar Rane (Girish Kulkarni) gets irritated every time Shivangi addresses him as ‘Bhaiya’, is funny. Kamal Pandey’s dialogues are commonplace.
Swara Bhasker acts ably as Shivangi. She gets into the skin of the character of a middle-class housewife whose morals are intact. Meher Vij does well as Mansi. Pooja Chopra is earnest in the role of Sakina. Shikha Talsania is alright as Neha. Girish Kulkarni lends very good support as police officer Madhukar Rane. Manish Chaudhary is okay as DCP Mohite. Ali Quli Mirza is adequate as Mansi’s husband, Ashish. Suraj Singh lends routine support as Shivangi’s husband, Dinesh Shukla. Akash Dhar impresses in the role of Neha’s husband, Rajeev. Meetansh Nehra is so-so as Sakina’s husband, Murad. Vibha Chhibber (as Shivangi’s mother-in-law) is effective. Garima Agarwal (as Shivangi’s sister-in-law) is okay. Niharika Chouksey (as Shivangi’s daughter) leaves a mark. Pallas Prajapati (as Shivangi’s son) and Devendra Singh (as Shivangi’s father-in-law) are so-so. Simran Gupta (as Tanya) is fair. Kamna Singh Chandel, Libert Olivera, Vinod Suryavanshi, Rajendra Jadhav, Gaurav Sameley and Neeraj Singh provide ordinary support as police constables. Nayani Dixit is natural as constable Alisha. Nirbhay Wadhwa (as Michael), Lokesh Mittal (as Rakesh), Rakhi Kishore (as Neha’s mother-in-law), R.C. Pathak (as Neha’s father-in-law), Vimi Mehta (as Sakina’s mother-in-law) and Nawal Shukla (as Sakina’s uncle) lend average support.
Kamal Pandey’s direction is weak. Like his script, Pandey’s narration is also devoid of excitement or thrill. Music (Rashid Khan, Anand Raaj Anand and Sanjeev-Ajay) are so-so. Lyrics (Shakeel Azmi, Anand Raaj Anand and Sanjeev Chaturvedi) pass muster. Song picturisations (by Ganesh Acharya, Adil Shaikh, Rajeev Surti and Lipsa Acharya) are okay. Amar Mohile’s background music is routine. Sethu Sriram’s camerawork is alright. Aroop Adhikari’s art direction is functional. Editing (Ballu Saluja) leaves something to be desired.
On the whole, Jahaan Chaar Yaar is too ordinary to make a mark.
Released on 16-9-’22 at Inox (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru PEN Marudhar Cine Entertainment. Publicity & opening: poor. …….Also released all over.