StarCast : Girish Kulkarni (Balasaheb), Sai Tamhankar (Karishma), Manva Naik (Urmi), Mohan Joshi (Anna), Reema Lagoo (Baalasaheb’s Mother), Bhau Kadam (Zatkya), Kishor Chaughule (Jeevan), Shrikant Yadav (Vikas).
Short Cameo – Dilip Prabhavalkar, Spruha Joshi.
Rating : 3/5
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues, Direction : Girish Kulkarni.
Producer : Ajay – Atul, Umesh Kulkarni,
Production : Saaga Productions.
Music : Ajay – Atul.
Lyrics : Ajay – Atul, Rooh, Vaibhav Joshi.
Duration : 2 hours 40 minutes. (160 minutes).
Jaundyana Balasaheb is a comic film which is a product of the mixture of Politics and Drama. As we know that both of these are complete different sections but Girish Kulkarni seemed to blend them together with a rural flavor. As a director this is Girish Kulkarni’s first film under Umesh Kulkarni’s production. The concept seems interesting and increases the curiosity of further story.
STORY / PLOT :
The story is about Balasheb’s journey of finding his path. Balasaheb Marne (Girish Kulkarni) is the son of a powerful politician Annasaheb Marne (Mohan Joshi). Anna is a leader who wants to become more powerful and for this he is even in the favour of corruption. He wants Balasaheb to become part of politics. Whereas Balasaheb is a simple man who believes that money can’t buy everything and it’s not supposed to do so. Friendship should be neutral. It should not be based on caste and power. Balasaheb’s mother (Reema Lagoo) is in favour of Balasaheb. After a fight with Anna, Balasaheb leaves the house in the search of his own path to create his own ideology. He starts his journey with his two best buddies Jeevan ( Kishor Chaughule) & Vikas (Shrikant Yadav).
While all these things are happening he meets Urmi (Manva Naik) a talented writer and director, who expresses her different perspective with her bold play. Also Urmi introduces Balasaheb to Drama and how to put a foot forward to stop Cultural Starvation with the help of drama. In this journey Balasaheb’s childhood friend Karishma (Sai Tamhankar), Zatkya (Bhau Kadam) and his other mates help him.
Now does he succeed in it or not? What is this journey? Is the backbone of the story.
There are some interesting comedy scenes like in one scene Manjula asks drunk Balasaheb to perform Mona Darling and when Baalasaheb performs it in the voice of old villain Ajit.. It’s really fun to watch.
Sai Tamhankar who is well known as bold and beautiful actress of Marathi industry gives a complete justice to her completely different character Karishma. She plays an excellent role of a village girl who is shy in nature & in love with Balasaheb since her childhood. But can’t express due to her shy upbringing. Girish Kulkarni has done different movies on social issues before. To name one is Deool. But it seems that even in spite of different characters in each film his acting remains the same.
Mohan Joshi who is a powerful actor himself plays an awesome character as Annasaheb. Reema Lagoo compliments him well. Her nature of caring and defending mother enhances the character. Manva Naik does the justice to her character of bold and brave writer and director. Bhau Kadam plays character of Zatkya. Well, why his name is Zatkya is the fun element of film to watch.
Though all songs of the film are good but Bring It on Baby and Dolbywalya makes a special corner in viewers’ hearts. Well Ajay – Atul has worked great once again on music. Both songs have awesome beats.
Story of the film is seems to be very lengthy. A repetition of scenes makes to lose interest in comic part. First half of the film is good but the second half becomes bit boring. Though director have tried to merge all the different aspects like drama, politics, comedy, social issues together but somewhere story seems incomplete even after a huge time period of 2hrs and 40 minutes.
Vikas who has never heard even about the A, B, C, D, of drama suddenly becomes a clever director of the play, which is hard to digest.
OVERALL:
Though it’s Girish Kulkarni’s first film as a director still it’s a good attempt to merge all different aspects. But in some scenes the story seems irrelevant and childish. When Urmi asks Balasaheb few questions about today’s youth like Where it is? Only on Facebook and the other half is on hoardings. What do you do for their future? These questions relate somewhere but to make the relevance scenes could have written better.
Film could have been more interesting if the story was shown short and crisp. Length of the film makes a negative impact. Tone of the village language is carried beautifully by all the artists. Jokes are not that funny but comic timing makes them fun. Concept seems to need more improvisation.
