No jugaad can help this one!
Jasmine Singh
Kirpa…this is what is needed at the moment for the entire team of Punjabi film Jugaadi Dot Com. Each one, from the director, the singer-forced actors, the cinematographer, the writer and most of all the producer needs to first ask God to forgive them, and then ensure the Almighty keeps them under his benevolence!
Jugaadi Dot Com directed by Anil Vij is a real jugaad of a shoddy storyline, which is flying like a lost kite in the blue sky; a jugaad of singers who are making a desperate attempt to act as they handle their falling paunches (read Nachhatar Gill) and newly coloured out of fashion hair (read Feroz Khan). A jugaad of dialogues that will make you shrink in your chair!
This Punjabi film first takes a dig on the much-talked about Nirmal Baba, played by singer Nachhatar Gill. Even though it begins by telling the viewers that it is a story based on a real incident that happened during Vietnam War, wherein the vast destruction wiped out the male race from the country. And at this time, Punjab sent men from here through some jugaad!
Did you get the story? If you haven’t it isn’t your fault because the director seems to be equally clueless. Useless and hopelessly dragged scenes only make you think that you might have done something wrong in your past life or in the present to have to view it!
Each scene in the film is a like a compartment, which is so different from the following scene. The director…well, we only have one word for him, ‘why’! Then comes the cast of the film- leading the jugaad is Nachhatar Gill, Feroz Khan, Sarb Chawla, Rana Ranbir, Mansi Sharma, Komya Virk, Megha Sharma, Ghulle Shah, Bhotu Shah, Parkash Gaadu, Dr Ranjit Riyaz, Cheeku, Babbu Gill, Honey Shergill, Vishv Dipak Trikha and Gajender Fogat.
One look at Nachhatar Gill, an amazing Punjabi singer, and you would want to shut your eyes. Forget about looking paunchy on screen, you could make-do (jugaad) with some acting Nachhatar ji! Feroz Khan, an equally good singer — first, wipe out that outdated hair colour and two, please go back to the studio and record a song. Sarb Chawla…kirpa in abundance is what you need as of now.
As for Rana Ranbir, a great writer, comedian and actor, what makes you get into jugaad when you have everything great going for you? As for the three ladies of the film, there must be something better you could do!
Jugaadi Dot Com is by far a Punjabi film that fails beautifully in all the departments. In fact, some scenes have absolutely no meaning in the film. The whole film is shot at almost one location (a hotel room of a hill station). Punjabi cinema has thrown good, bad and reasonable films at us; this is a film that is utterly useless though!
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