Star cast: Arya Babbar, Sameksha Singh, Binnu Dhillon, Gurpreet Ghuggi, B N Sharma, Jaswinder Bhalla, Karamjit Anmol, Sardar Sohi, Harpreet Johal and Veena Malik
Director: Kshitij Chaudhary
Producer: Manmohan S. Jandu, Harveen Singh, Harpreet Singh and Jasveer Singh
Music: Jatinder Shah
Genre: Comedy
Censor Details: U/A (Punjabi)
Synopsis: Sunny (Arya), a young Punjabi boy wants to fly to Canada to earn money at any cost. He gets in touch with a Crook Agent Jugnu (Ghuggi) who befools him for a fraud visa. On the other hand, Titoo Don (Binnu) is suffering from a cardiac problem and is in search of a person who could give him his heart. Arya agrees to give Binnu his heart in exchange for money, unaware of what would happen to him. What follows is a laughter string to save Arya’s heart and life.
Script Analysis: Comedy films, which are now a trend in Punjabi Cinema seriously need to work a lot in their writing other than dialogues if they are to survive in the long run. The storyline of Jatts In Golmaal is pretty much like every other comedy film – Cassettes being sold in CD packing. This is what I would call the story of JIG.
Screenplay was well written and was equally complimented by the dialogues. This film is what I can call a fountain of laughter doses and this is because it offers non-stop laughter punches. Screenplay and Dialogues were well written but the story disappointed me big time. Also the item song seemed like a jerk in the screenplay and was a forceful insertion for sure. Naresh Kathooria was the man behind Story, Screenplay and Dialogues.
Direction and Music: Very rarely have I seen a film that can entertain a viewer despite of a poor storyline and average work by the director. This is what seems to have happened here. Kshitij Chaudhary who has directed the film hasn’t done a satisfactory job here. A lot of the things could have been done in a better way, which would have given a better look to the film. Overall, a half-cooked job done by the director.
Jatinder Shah has done music and his music was a major letdown once again. He has once again failed to produce either a peppy dance number or a hummable romantic number. Jatt Bal Duga was a sole number which has a few merits. Other than this music is a complete disaster.
Star Performances: Arya Babbar, seen in a Punjabi film after 2 years time has done a fair job. He has done justice to his character and his acting will get better with time and in films to come in the future. Sameksha Singh, after appearing in various movies down south and recently released Lucky Di Unlucky Story doesn’t have much to do around in this all boys film, but still she looks pretty but doesn’t do enough justice to her role. It could have been better than this atleast.
Binnu Dhillon is once again without any doubt the show-stealer. He along with Arya, Ghuggi and Bhalla carry the film on their shoulders. But Binnu showed his class once-again being the show stealer. Gurpreet Ghuggi, once again has done a good job bringing justice to his character. Jaswinder Bhalla was fantastic as always.
Others like Karamjit Anmol, Sardar Sohi and the rest of the cast provided good to average support. Veena Malik’s item number was unwanted and was a jerk in the screenplay.
Final Say: Jatts In Golmaal has both – its own merits as well as demerits. Non-stop punches and good performances being a big merit and poor story, unpleasing music and average direction being some demerits. Overall, it’s a clean comedy and is enjoyable.
Paisa Vasool: 60/100
