Touchwood Multimedia Creations’ Jogira Sara Ra Ra (UA) is the story of a wedding planner who is actually trying to break the wedding of a girl instead of planning and making arrangements for the big day.
Jogi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a wedding planner. He gets the contract to plan the wedding of Dimple (Neha Sharma) with Lallu (Mahaakshay Chakraborty). However, he soon realises that Dimple is not happy about marrying Lallu, and so he helps her to ensure that the marriage is called off by the bridegroom’s family. Complications arise during the process which include Dimple’s abduction, Jogi’s arrest, etc. There comes a stage when it appears as if Yogi and Dimple would marry each other. What happens finally? Does Dimple marry Yogi or Lallu?
Ghalib Asad Bhopali has written a story which may not be novel but is, nevertheless, interesting. His screenplay, however, is very stretched as things get repetitive. Bhopali seems to have run out of ideas to further the drama in an interesting way. What, therefore, happens is that the drama keeps moving in circles. Incidents vary but the drama often doesn’t move ahead. Even then, if the drama doesn’t become boring, it is because of two reasons — the witty dialogues and the performances of Jogi and Chacha Choudhary (Sanjay Mishra), an abductor who kidnaps people and earns by charging ransom money. Ghalib Asad Bhopali’s dialogues are so witty and funny that they keep the audience laughing all through the drama.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui lives the role of Jogi. He delivers an exceptional performance and shines all through the film. His sense of comic timing is, of course, fantastic. Neha Sharma looks pretty and acts well in the role of Dimple. Mahaakshay Chakraborty plays Lallu with understanding. Sanjay Mishra is excellent as Chacha Choudhary. He makes the character pretty enjoyable by immersing himself completely into it. Zarina Wahab lends nice support as Jogi’s mother. Bhagwan Tiwari is terrific in the role of Dimple’s no-nonsense father. Geeta Agarwal Sharma is very entertaining as Dimple’s mother. Farrukh Zaffar is cute in the role of Dimple’s grandmother. Shubhrajyoti Barot is first-rate as Dimple’s mamaji. Rohit Chaudhary is lovely as Manu. Ikram Khan has his moments as Pandeyji. Anita Sahgal makes her presence felt in the role of Lallu’s mother. Vishwanath Chatterjee stands out as police inspector Yadav. Ghanshyam Garg is good as SI Yadav. Aparna Tiwari is impressive as Jogi’s paternal aunt. Suman Patel is wonderful as Jogi’s sister, Sarita. Aansil Pal (Babita), Ananya Thakur (Lalita) and Manisha Gupta (Kavita) provide lovely support as Yogi’s other sisters. Hemant Pandey shines as Bittu. Others lend the desired support.
Kushan Nandy’s direction is good. He has very beautifully created the small-town atmosphere. Credit to him also for extracting such good work out of his cast. Music (Tanishk Bagchi for ‘Cocktail’, Meet Bros. for ‘Torture’ and Hitesh Modak for ‘Babua’) is fair. A hit musical score would’ve made a world of a difference to the box-office performance of the film. Lyrics (Vayu for ‘Cocktail’, Kumaar for ‘Torture’ and Lavraj for ‘Babua’) are okay. Song picturisations (choreography by Vijay Ganguly for ‘Cocktail’, Mudassar Khan for ‘Torture’, and Baba Yadav for ‘Babua’) could have been better. Anup Bhat’s background music is reasonably good. Sourabh Waghmare’s cinematography is of a fine standard. Kaushal Naseem’s action and stunt scenes are functional. Mayur Tripathi’s production designing is decent. Jogi Malang’s appropriate casting deserves mention. Virendra Gharse’s editing is sharp.
On the whole, Jogira Sara Ra Ra is entertaining but its repetitiveness greatly limits its box-office prospects. Also, if the film does not do much at the ticket windows, it will be due to lack of awareness about the film. It will find more appreciation on the OTT platform.
Released on 26-5-’23 at Inox (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru AA Films. Publicity: dull. Opening: weak. …….Also released all over. Opening was terrible everywhere.