Review : Jaggu Aani Juliet : Amey Wagh shines and Vaidehi Parshurami sparkles!
#Lovestories are often engrossing if presented in an unique manner. Class conflict or socially different personalities, if brought together, create enough drama which could be engrossing. #JagguAaniJuliet is a movie wherein both the boy and a girl are from rich background but completely contrasting backgrounds. It’s a love story between a ‘desi mulga and phorenchi mulgi’, i.e. a desi guy and a girl born and brought up abroad. The film mentions #WilliamShakespeare and picks ideologies from his plays and the girl has an affinity towards his plays due to emotional reasons. Of course the title too is inspired by ‘Willy’ as the couple calls Shakespeare in the movie. Though it’s a regular love story the director, #MaheshLimaye, has given a different treatment to it and the movie’s romantic comedy genre will appeal to the youngsters and the young at heart.
Jaggu Kalan (Amey Wagh) is a young guy from Versova, fondly called King of Versova, whose father (Upendra Limaye) is ‘loaded’ and is aspiring to be a politician. He ventures out, on the advice of his ‘love-guru’ (Sameer Dharmadhikari), to UK, Uttarakhand to be precise. He wants to fall in love but is unsuccessful in all his attempts till he bumps into Julie Chitale (Vaidehi Parshurami), an Indo-American girl, from Los Angeles who is hitch hiking while travelling in India. Julie likes Jaggu extrovert nature and they plan to tour together. Jaggu expresses his love but Julie holds back but as a friend continues her journey with him. As her relations with her father (Manoj Joshi) are strained, she finds emotional support in Jaggu. Will this Romeo’s i .e. Jaggu’s love for Juliet be enough for her to stay with him is the crux of the story.
Mahesh Limaye, who is an ace cinematographer, turned director with a National Award winning film Rege, brings a light hearted Jaggu aani Juliet. He definitely has done a good job here too, though not excellent, and keeps viewers engrossed in the narration. He has focused on Love at all stages of life and using various aged couples has stressed a point that the love is supreme always. He also has hinted about the film’s sequel, ‘Juliet in Versova’. The humour flows through the scenes and isn’t forced any time. The dialogues and dialect are cleverly used and the screenplay is pacy, though a little trimming would have helped the film. Ajay Atul’s music is very good, as always, and Bhavi Aamdar and Kadhi Na Tula remain with you.
Like most of the marathi films, this movie too scores in acting department. Amey Wagh shines with his effervescent portrayal. He has used the dialect very cleverly to accentuate the role. His comic timing is impeccable and he keeps viewers entertained with his passing one-liners too. Vaidehi Parshurami looks utterly beautiful and aces her role. She scores in the emotional scenes and gives ample support to Amey in comic as well as romantic scenes. Her costumes are relatable and her presence lights up the screen. She should have worked more on her ‘American’ accent though. But Amey-Vaidehi chemistry is excellent, maybe because they have worked together in Zombivli earlier. There’s a huge supporting cast including Pravin Tarde, Upendra Limaye, Manoj Joshi, Avinash Narkar, Sameer Choughule and others who make the narrative more relatable.
Jaggu aani Juliet is a youth centric film which will appeal to the youth across the state, urban and rural, and of course the young at heart.
**1/2