Predictably enjoyable

Jasmine Singh

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A love triangle with a message flashing in the backdrop (especially for the Doaba of Punjab), this is how we’d see director Navaniat Singh’s Jindua. The film starring Jimmy Shergill, Neeru Bajwa, Sargun Mehta and Rajiv Thakur is a typical Navaniat Singh film, which means it has oodles of mush, beautiful actresses, breathtaking locales but an extremely predictable storyline. 

The screenplay of Jindua is written by Dheeraj Rattan. Dheeraj hasn’t brought in any new kind of mush to the love triangle except for the fact that he has put in a subtle message for all youngsters who dream of getting a citizenship in Canada. And the director has executed this angle well. In fact, this is one element of the film which many Punjabis and Punjabi NRIs would relate to. The story is pretty racy with no time wasted in useless details! Forget about the story as by now we know how mushy Punjabi cinema can get! Despite a predictable graph of the plot, Navaniat has nicely brought out the emotional quotient of the actors. Since you know what to expect ahead, you might find it slightly stretched in parts. The film gets a point for its raciness but loses one for its predictable plot!

The film scores another point for its actors who have done justice to the story and to the characters. Neeru Bajwa and Sargun Mehta deserve a special mention for having done a great job. Neeru gets under the skin of her character, and so does Sargun, who scores a 100 in dialogue delivery. As for the main hero of the film, Jimmy Shergill, the actor is definitely looking good, has acted great, but his outfits, the ‘Sunday longer than Monday’ look doesn’t strike a gong! Jimmy is an actor who knows how not to go overboard in the emotional scenes,  thus allowing those scenes to flow smoothly. Then, of course, there is another actor who deserves a mention, stand-up comedian Rajiv Thakur. The artiste imparts a nice and controlled humour to the film. And how could we not mention the adorable canine, Duffy? Looking at the posters one would have thought the dog was placed there for a purpose or maybe he was to add zing to the climax. But well, sorry Duffy, you just look adorable, and that’s it! 

The title track of the film, Jindua, sung by Ranjit Bawa and Jasmine Sandlas is foot- tapping kind, and so is Dholna sung by Prabh Gill. 

Jindua is undoubtedly a love triangle that will follow the path you think it will. If only we remove the predictability of the film, it will be a perfect mush story, but then isn’t love predictable? What do you say!